Lit Short Stories

Question 1

Mood

Answer 1

How the READER feels about story

Question 2

Allegory

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Tone

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Simile

Answer 4

Phrase comparing two unalike things using like or as

Question 5

Metaphor

Answer 5

Phrase comparing 2 unlike things without using like or as.

Question 6

Personification

Answer 6

Giving inanimate objects human characteristics

Question 7

Hyperbole

Answer 7

excessive or extreme exaggeration

Question 8

Oxymoron

Answer 8

Phrase with words that are opposite

Question 9

Idiom

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Types of irony

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Situational Irony

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Dramatic irony

Answer 12

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

Question 13

In MotRD the rooms arrangement symbolizes what

Answer 13

(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

Question 14

In MotRD what does the clock symbolize

Answer 14

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

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Próspero is like prosperity or prosperous which means plentiful or abundant

Question 16

How is mood shown

Answer 16

With word choice or description

Question 17

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

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What is the allegory in MotRD

Answer 18

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

Question 19

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

Answer 19

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)

Question 20

How is prince próspero selfish

Answer 20

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

Question 21

What is prince próspero symbolic of

Answer 21

All people who don’t care about others

Question 22

How is a Prince Próspero arrogant

Answer 22

He tries to escape and hide from death

Question 23

What deos the Red Death symbolize in MotRD

Answer 23

Death in general/ end of time

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Dislike, because, he dies first and is selfish

Question 25

What are the literary devices present in the landlady

Answer 25

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

Question 26

What is the Red death

Answer 26

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

Question 27

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

Answer 27

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

Question 28

How are the rooms arranged in MotRD

Answer 28

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.

Question 29

What is strange about the mummer

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Who dies first in MotRD

Answer 30

Prince prospero

Question 31

What happens in the end of MotRD

Answer 31

Everyone dies

Question 32

What happens when the clock dings every hour

Answer 32

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

Question 33

What happens when everyone in MotRD dies

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Who is Billy in the landlady

Answer 34

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

Question 35

What traits does Billy have

Answer 35

Immature, arrogant,

Question 36

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

Answer 36

She stuffs them

Question 37

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

Answer 37

They suddenly disappeared (they were stuffed).

Question 38

What happens in the landlady

Answer 38

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.

Question 39

Who is Mary Maloney

Answer 39

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

Question 40

How does Mary treat her husband

Answer 40

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

Question 41

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

Answer 41

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

Question 42

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

Answer 42

He doesn’t say anything

Question 43

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

Answer 43

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

Question 44

What did Mary do to her husband

Answer 44

She killed him with a frozen leg of lamb

Question 45

What evidence shows that Mary’s murder was not planned

Answer 45

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

Question 46

What is Mary’s husband’s job

Answer 46

He is a senior cop

Question 47

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

Answer 47

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

Question 48

What happens after Mary kills her husband

Answer 48

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

Question 49

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

Answer 49

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.

Question 50

What happens to the murder weapon in lamb to the slaughter

Answer 50

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

Question 51

How is Mary oppressed in lamb to the slaughter

Answer 51

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