Monkey's Paw
Where does Sergeant Major Morris acquire the Monkey's Paw?
India
The Monkey's Paw is a linear narrative. Events transpire in the present, one point to the next.
How is "The Leap" narrated, comparatively?
"The Leap" is narrated through a series of flashbacks, only occasionally returning to the present.
What literary device/word of the day does this video best demonstrate?
Antagonists
Explain the definition of the vocabulary word at the end of this video.
Dark Knight Rises
Ceaseless, never-ending
What vocabulary word best describes the man in this video clip?
Michael Douglas
Avaricious
What was Mr. White's first wish?
200 pounds
What is the first great leap made by Anna?
When she saves herself by grabbing a metal wire that badly burns her after a lightning strike throws her husband to his death.
What literary device/word of the day does this video demonstrate?
The Force
Climax
What vocabulary word is best captured by this picture?
Andrew McCutchen
Grimace
What vocabulary word is best captured by this image?
Up
Edifice
How does Mr. White receive the 200 pounds?
His son is mangled in a machinery accident and the company makes a goodwill payment of 200 pounds to the family.
What is the name of the traveling trapeze act that Anna and her first husband Henry make up?
Hint: Flying + Henry's last name
The Flying Avalons
What literary device/word of the day does this video demonstrate?
Gladiator
Imagery
What vocabulary word is best captured by the following image?
Squad
Furtive
What vocabulary word does this video best demonstrate?
The greatest superhero ever
Bibulous
Mr. White admits that he doesn't need anything else in life, but he chooses to make a wish anyway. What might the monkey's paw symbolize?
Greed
How does Anna physically save her daughter's life in the story?
When their house catches on fire, Anna climbs a tree, swings down from a branch into her daughter's room and then they jump down together into a net below.
A recurring element or pattern in a story that helps reinforce the theme or mood and can manifest itself in any form: objects, numbers, weather, dreams, emotions, desires, etc...
Motif
What vocabulary word is best demonstrated by the following video?
Eagles
Fusillade
What vocabulary word is best captured by this image?
Caesar
Simian
Why did the old Fakir curse the monkey's paw? What point was he trying to prove?
That fate ruled people's lives and that those who attempt to change their fate will suffer grave consequences.
What exchange does Anna make in the hospital with her future husband, the doctor?
She tells him about all of the places she'd visited across the world, all of the places he's never been to, and in return the doctor helps her learn how to read and write.
In the beginning of "The Monkey's Paw" we see a chess game between Mr. White and his son. Consider the following passage:
"Hark at the wind," said Mr. White, who, having seen a fatal mistake after it was too late, was amiably desirous of preventing his son from seeing it.
What literary device/term is this an example of?
Foreshadowing
Mr. McCarthy's Face!
Rubicund
What vocabulary word best describes what happens in this scene?
Hint: it's a verb
US Marshals
Extricate
Compare Mr. White's, Herbert's and Sergeant Major Morris' attitudes toward the monkey's paw?
Morris feared it and was hesitant about letting the Whites have it. He threw it into the fire at one point.
Herbert was highly skeptical and sarcastic about the entire affair.
Mr. White was innately curious about the paw and convinced Morris to give it to him.
What are the three ways in which the narrator owes her life to her mother? 200 points each
1.) Her mother saves her own life during the lightning strike, hence allowing the narrator to eventually be born
2.) By marrying her father and giving birth to her
3.) Anna saves her daughter from a house fire when she's seven years old
What literary device/word of the day does this video demonstrate?
Root Beer Video
Analogy
What word best describes the characters in this scene?
Man in the Iron Mask
Doughty
Define the word "Prosaic"
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Having the character or form of prose, ordinary language, not abstract
What is a motif in "The Monkey's Paw"?
The number three
What is the second or figurative leap that Anna makes in the story?
When she meets the narrator's father and falls in love, takes the chance to love again and start over after losing her husband and unborn child
What literary device does this video demonstrate? Mr. McCarthy will briefly summarize it afterward.
Shawshank Redemption
Irony
The name of a lethal snake is partially derived from this word.
Clue
This snake kills its prey by wrapping itself around them and choking off their air supply.
Constrict
What noun best describes the attitude of a character in this video clip? Then make it an adjective for an extra 300 points.
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Apathy or apathetic