Characters & Objects
This character rides a coach for “fifty hours or more” and holds an unlit cigarette.
Who is Lev?
The unlit cigarette represents this for Lev.
What is companionship, hope, or a promise of the future?
The narrator’s torch (flashlight) ends up like this.
What is dropped and broken (or taken by the ghost)?
An isolated mansion and stormy weather are typical of this literary genre.
What is Gothic horror?
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses (e.g., “I rise, I rise, I rise”).
What is anaphora?
This object is lost by the narrator on the beach in “Whistle and I’ll Come to You.”
What is the torch (flashlight)?
The hard‑boiled egg eaten by the woman next to Lev reminds him of this.
What is taking his late wife to sulphur springs (or a painful memory of her illness)?
Mathilde Loisel’s main problem at the start is that she feels this way.
What is she was born for a life of luxury but is poor (or unhappy with her middle-class life)?
The line “I began to doubt my own reality” suggests this emotional state from Gothic horror.
What is psychological unraveling / loss of sanity?
Using similar grammatical structures for balance (e.g., “Easy come, easy go”).
What is parallelism?
This character’s wife has died; the journey on the coach brings back memories of her.
Who is Lev’s late wife (unnamed)?
The “open window” in “The Story of an Hour” symbolizes this.
What is new opportunities and freedom (or openness/possibility)?
Mrs. Mallard initially reacts to her husband’s death with this action.
What is sudden, wild weeping in her sister’s arms?
The phrase “a vengeful ghost” is a convention of this genre, creating this effect on the reader.
What is creating suspense or fear?
Exaggeration for emphasis (e.g., taking “fifty hours or more” on a coach journey).
What is hyperbole?
This narrator experiences a ghostly encounter at an isolated seaside mansion.
Who is Arthur Kipps (from “Whistle and I’ll Come to You”)?
“The joy that kills” is an example of this type of irony because the reader knows the truth.
What is dramatic irony?
The cost to replace the lost necklace in “The Necklace” is this many francs.
What is 36,000 francs?
In "Whistle and I'll Come to You," the narrator's description of the wind howling outside the isolated mansion appeals to this sense, a common Gothic technique to create fear.
What is sound (or auditory imagery / hearing)?
Placing two opposite ideas close together to highlight differences (e.g., her private joy vs. public grief).
What is contrast (juxtaposition)?
This woman tells Mathilde the original necklace was only an imitation worth 500 francs.
Who is Madame Forestier?
The change from “I’ll rise” to “I rise” in the final stanzas implies this about the speaker’s rising.
What is the rising is no longer a future hope but a present, continuous action?
In “Significant Cigarettes,” Lev expects to do this about his future in London (work/hold himself apart).
What is work hard and hold himself apart from others?
In "Whistle and I'll Come to You," the narrator is alone in an isolated mansion at night, yet he hears footsteps approaching his door. This Gothic convention creates suspense by suggesting this.
What is a presence or force when no one should be there (or the supernatural / an unseen entity) ?
Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses (e.g., “...of the people, by the people, for the people”).
What is epistrophe?