An uncomfortable bed

Question 1

How does the writer build up a sense of expectation?

Answer 1

Goes from one possible prank to another and each time the reader is expecting something to happen but it doesn’t.

Question 2

What is the dramatic irony

Answer 2

The narrator is sure that his friends are going to prank him but really nothing has been planned. In the end by sleeping on the floor as a precaution, he causes the valet to trip over him, thereby pranking himself.

Question 3

What does narrator do when in his bedroom?

Answer 3

Lights all of the candles, made sure the window was locked, checked behind the curtains, checked the chair to make sure that it wouldn’t collapse, checks the bedding and then remakes his bed on the floor.

Question 4

4 words to prove that it was written by a Frenchman

Answer 4

mantelpiece, chateau, cajoled and gingerly