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Characters
Plot
Mood
Tone
Cause and Effect
100
He has a vulture eye.
Who is the old man?
100
A moth kills itself.
What is "The Lesson of the Moth"?
100
Though it ends sadly, this story has a ________ mood because of how it builds up to the end.
What is suspenseful?
100
The narrator shares his feeling of _______________ with us when Casey strikes out.
What is disappointment?
100
Mighty Casey struck out.
Why is the crowd disappointed?
200
When he reforms, he goes by the name of Ralph D. Spencer.
Who is Jimmy Valentine?
200
A crazy man kills an old man who has a vulture eye.
What is "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
200
The narrator from this story has a condescending tone when he talks about the quack's attempts to sell the fake cure.
What is "Waters of Gold"?
200
Jimmy meets a woman and falls in love with her.
Why does Jimmy reform?
300
He says that his magic elixir will cure aging, sickness, and ugliness.
Who is the quack?
300
There is no joy in Mudville.
What is "Casey At the Bat"?
300
We feel disgusted but also ________ by the end of the poem "Waters of Gold."
What is amused?
300
From the way "A Retrieved Reformation" ends, you can tell that the narrator believes in...
What is forgiveness, reformation, or change?
300
The old man is sweet, but his vulture eye is driving the narrator crazy.
Why did the narrator kill the old man?
400
A cockroach who is the narrator.
Who is Archy?
400
This narrator discredits the other character in this story, saying he is selling something impossible for humans to obtain.
What is "Waters of Gold"?
400
Because the narrator disagrees with the moth's choice, but wants to want something as badly as the moth wanted to die, the mood of the story is ____________. (hint: the narrator makes the readers grapple with this deeper meaning)
What is thoughtful or pondering?
400
The narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" has a ________ tone, though he is not very good at it.
What is persuasive?
400
The quack wants to make money.
Why is the quack selling the fake cure?
500
The crowd wants to kill this person.
Who is the umpire?
500
This story is about a man who changes his life for a woman he loves.
What is "A Retrieved Reformation"?
500
Because Price lets Valentine go at the end, the feeling of "A Retrieved Reformation" is...
What is happy?
500
The narrator of "The Lesson of the Moth" has this tone, which is also a vocabulary word.
What is ponderous or pondering?
500
It is better to die in a moment of happiness and beauty than to live a long and unhappy life.
Why does the moth want to kill himself?