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Main Idea or Author's purpose
Social class
Exposition
Freytag's Pyramid
100
I did not recognize a poor women while I was walking?
Who is Madame Forestier?
100
It tells what the story is mainly about
What is main idea?
100
Her husband worked in the evenings at putting straight a merchant's account, and often at night he did copying at two pence-halfpenny a page."
What is lower class?
100
Madame Loisel
Who is the main character?
100
Madame Loisel went to the party she was the prettiest person there and everyone respected her.
What is the dramatic climax?
200
protagonist
Who is the main character or who is Madame Loisel?
200
It makes me laugh or tells a story.
What is entertain?
200
"She let herself be married off to a little clerk in the Ministry of Education."
What is middle class?
200
the beginning of the story
What is exposition
200
Madame Loisel received the invitation.
What is the rising action?
300
antagonist
Who is the villain or who is poorness?
300
The author gave me facts or taught me something.
What is inform?
300
"All these things of which other women of her class would not even been aware, tormented and insulted her."
What is middle class?
300
Madame and Monsieur Loisel, the jeweler, Madame Forestier,
Who are the characters?
300
Madame Loisel is poor but she wants to be rich.
What is the problem?
400
"I came to know the ghastly life of abject poverty."
Who is Madame Loisel?
400
The author is trying to convince me of something or change my min
What is persuade?
400
"First she say some bracelets, then a pearl necklace, then a Venetian cross in gold and gems, of exquisite workmanship."
What is upper class?
400
The house, the party and the jewelry story
What is the setting?
400
The beginning of a short story
What is exposition?
500
"It wasn't I who sold this necklace, Madame: I must have merely supplied the clasps."
Who is the jeweler?
500
It is as easy as pie?
What is persuasive, inform, an entertain?
500
"She imagined delicate meals, gleaming silver, tapestries peopling the walls with folk of a past age and strange birds in fairy forest."
What is upper class?
500
"Her husband worked in the evenings at putting straight a merchant's accounts, and often at night he did copying at two pence-halfpenny a page."
Who is the husband or Monsieur Loisel?
500
The artistic arrangement of a sequence of events
What is plot?