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Short story
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Has a family coat of arms that features a snake biting a person's heel. | Montresor |
| A brutal man with sharp teeth and blood-red lips. | General Zaroff |
| A national Chess champion who doubts a woman will even win a title | Bobby Fischer |
| while trapped in the woods, offers his wine flask to his enemy | Ulrich von Gradwitz |
| is given $10 and a lesson in morality | Roger |
| is the first character to understand the irony of the Christmas gifts | Jim Dillingham Young |
| A police officer whose murder will likely never be solved by authorities | Patrick Maloney |
| struggles to understand why we are cruelest to the ones we love most | Brother |
| Completely blinded by dried blood that crusted over his eyes | Georg Znaeym |
| Accepts her misfortune with unexpected grace and fortitude | Mathild Loisel |
| Dresses like a fool and is played like a fool | Fortunato |
| Learns the art of invisible strength | Waverly young |
| Named William Armstrong, which was Like tying a big tail on a small kite." | Doodle |
| Is the second character to understand the irony of the Christmas gifts | Della Dillingham Young |
| was a hunter, but becomes the hunted after falling off a boat. | Rainsford |
| Pregnancy is one of the reasons this character kills | Mary Maloney |
| Carries a purse so large it holds everything but a hammer and nails | Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones |
| Dies in a trap intended to kill his employer | Ivan, the cossak |
| consumes a fish that could symbolize the flesh of her own child | Mrs.Jong |
| Loans out a piece of costume jewelry | Madame Forestier |
| Unknowingly consumes the evidence of the crime he's investigating | Jack Noonan |
| The gifts that Jim and Della give each other are both the worst and the best gifts they could've chosen | True |
| In "The most dangerous Game" good triumphs over evil. | True |
| Brother shares at least one responsibility for Doodle's death | True |
| An Amontillado is a rare type of engraved Italian sword | False |
| Roger wants money to buy a pair of brown suede shoes | False |
| The four elements of an introductory paragraph are the hook, bridge, summary and thesis | True |
| On the storytelling arc, the longest part of a story is called the "Falling action" | False |
| This contains a Metaphor: Love is a battlefield | True |
| This contains adjectives shifted out of order: The large bull, red-eyed and angry, charged the matador. | True |
| This contains a participle: Hissing and slithering, the diamond-scaled snakes attacked their prey. | True |
| This contains a participle: Feet kicking, the cat climbed the tree | False |
| This contains an Absolute: The raccoon, a scavenger, enjoys eating turtle eggs. | False |
| This contains an Absolute: The pavilion was a simple city, long and rectangular. | False |
| Using a rhetorical question is a weak way to launch an introductory paragraph | True |
| The sink where Roger scrubs his face serves as a/an ____ in "Thank You, Ma'am." | Symbol / Symbolism |
| "I remember his sweaty brow seemed to weep at my every move." this is an example of _____. | Personification |
| The running buck and swirling winds are examples of ____ in "The Interlopers." | Foreshadowing |
| In addition to being the protagonist Montresor is also a /an ____ in "The Cask of Amontillado." | Unreliable Narrator |
| "The Cossak was that; [Rainsford] was the mouse." This is an example of a/an _____. | Metaphor |
| "Which instigates the moral reflection the life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating." This is an example of ____. | Alliteration |
| When Montresor and Fortunato are in the catacombs, they drink some wine Fortunato says, "I drink...to the buried that repose around us." Montresor replies, "And I to your long life."This is and example of ____. | Verbal Irony |
| Mathilde Loisel is a dissatisfied housewife who dreams of luxury. this part of her story is the ____. | Exposition |
| The black satin of the jewel case in "The Necklace" is an example of a/an _____. | Symbol / Symbolism |
| The death of the scarlet ibis serves to _____ the death of little Doddle. | Foreshadow |
| "An apprehensive night crawled slowly by." this is an example of ___. | Personififcation |
| Even though he was young when the events in this story occurred, the reader finds Brother to be a/an ___. | Reliable Narrator |
| To Waverly Jong, her mother is a/an ___. | Antagonist |
| "The revolver pointed as rigidly as if the giant were a statue." This is an example of a/an ___. | Simile |
| When you look at Mary Maloney, Montreor, and Mathilde Loisel, you see an interesting connection. Each of these characters is a damaged ______. | Protagonist |
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