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Lit Short Stories Flashcards

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Mood

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How the READER feels about story

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Allegory

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Story, Poem, or other form of lit that can be interpreted to have a deeper meaning, reaches a moral lesson

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Tone

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Way the AUTHOR feels toward a particular event, character, or subject

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Simile

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Phrase comparing two unalike things using like or as

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Metaphor

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Phrase comparing 2 unlike things without using like or as.

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Personification

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Giving inanimate objects human characteristics

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Hyperbole

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excessive or extreme exaggeration

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Oxymoron

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Phrase with words that are opposite

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Idiom

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A phrase that has a very different meaning than its literal words

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Types of irony

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  1. Situational
  2. Verbal (not on test)
  3. Dramatic
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Situational Irony

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Occurs when the exact opposite of what was expected to happen happens

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Dramatic irony

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Occurs when audience or reader knows some thing that the characters don’t

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In MotRD the rooms arrangement symbolizes what

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(It’s east to west) it symbolizes the suns motion which is light at the beginning and dark at the end, light to dark, good to evil, good to bad

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In MotRD what does the clock symbolize

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That time is running out, it represent the time the peo0le have left before death over takes them.

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Prince prósperos name sounds like what, and what does that word mean

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Próspero is like prosperity or prosperous which means plentiful or abundant

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How is mood shown

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With word choice or description

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In MotRD how is mood shown (more than one answer)

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  1. Black room (ppl reactions)
  2. Clock (ppl reactions)
  3. Description of Red Death
  4. Wall/gate (isolated)
  5. Mummer (description
  6. Masquerade ball
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What is the allegory in MotRD

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That death is a great equalizer because NO ONE can escape death

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In MotRD why is the black room different from the other rooms

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The other rooms had stained windows that matched the decor, but the black room’s window was different (it was red while the rest was black)

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How is prince próspero selfish

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He only invites the rich (his “friends”) and doesn’t care about the other people dying in his kingdom

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What is prince próspero symbolic of

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All people who don’t care about others

22
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How is a Prince Próspero arrogant

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He tries to escape and hide from death

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What deos the Red Death symbolize in MotRD

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Death in general/ end of time

24
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Does the author like or dislike Prince prospero, how can you tell

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Dislike, because, he dies first and is selfish

25
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What are the literary devices present in the landlady

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Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Oxymoron, Idiom, Tone, Mood

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What is the Red death

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A dangerous disease that kills you in 30 minutes that has become a pandemic

27
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What does Prince prosperous do to try and escape the Red Death

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He god in one of his castles, throws a party and puts iron gates, welded shut all around the castle so no one goes in or out

28
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How are the rooms arranged in MotRD

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East to west, with maze-like hallways linking them (can’t see another room from another room) only light is from windows, no light switch.

29
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What is strange about the mummer

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He is dressed as the Red Death, is uninvited, and cannot be touched (he is not tangible and if you touch him you die)

30
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Who dies first in MotRD

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Prince prospero

31
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What happens in the end of MotRD

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Everyone dies

32
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What happens when the clock dings every hour

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Everyone stops for a few seconds and then goes back to partying (gives them time to think)

33
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What happens when everyone in MotRD dies

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The ebony clock stops ticking and the flames in the tripods go out

34
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Who is Billy in the landlady

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He is the main character, he is a regular, handsome 17 year old guy who copies business men

35
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What traits does Billy have

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Immature, arrogant,

36
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The old lady does what to the people who come to her inn house

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She stuffs them

37
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What happened to the other people in the guest book (landlady)

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They suddenly disappeared (they were stuffed).

38
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What happens in the landlady

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Billy weaver needs a inn and he finds a extremely cheap place with a creepy , crazy old lady. There he is treated well, but strangely and in the end probably was stuffed.

39
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Who is Mary Maloney

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She is regular house wife in the 50’s she does everything for her husband. She is pregnant

40
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How does Mary treat her husband

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She treats him very well, cooks and cleans for him and gets everything for him

41
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When does the mood of the story change in Lamb to the slaughter

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When Mary’s husband gets up HIMSELF to get another drink.

42
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What does Mary’s husband do when she offers him food

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He doesn’t say anything

43
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What did Mary’s husband say to her that was a shock and she was horrified after

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He probably told him that he was leaving her or was getting divorced

44
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What did Mary do to her husband

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She killed him with a frozen leg of lamb

45
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What evidence shows that Mary’s murder was not planned

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She was in shock after she killed him, she was cold, surprised and even nauseous.

46
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What is Mary’s husband’s job

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He is a senior cop

47
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How does Mary’s baby change Mary’s attitude after killing her husband

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She first didn’t care about the consequence then when she thought of her baby she dint know if it would be killed so she didn’t take any chances and hid the murder

48
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What happens after Mary kills her husband

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She puts the lamb in the oven and goes to the grocers and then comes home and calls the police and they look around her house

49
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Why don’t the police suspect Mary Maloney of the murder of her husband

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She loved him and would do anything for him, she is a woman (also pregnant) and believed to be weak, the grocer Sadi she was cheerful.

50
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What happens to the murder weapon in lamb to the slaughter

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The lamb leg is eaten by the cops looking for Patrick Maloney’s killer or murder weapon

51
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How is Mary oppressed in lamb to the slaughter

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She does everything for her husband and doesn’t complain,

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