Unit 3 Flashcards
How long was Rip Van Winkle asleep?
20 years
What were the names of the sisters who lost their father and became poor?
The Bray girls (Ann and Mandana)
What was the name of Rip Van Winkle’s daughter?
Judith Gardenier
What was the name of the man who wanted to go to the workplace for the winter?
Soapy
What time in history was the character in The Pit and the Pendulum in?
The Inquisition
What was the name of the lady who lost her husband and was a businesswoman?
Mrs. William Trimble
What was the name of the lady who was lame and accompanied Mrs. Trimble
Miss Rebecca Wright
Who was the character on the boat that portrayed the author?
The Correspondent
Which sailman died in the end?
The Oiler
What was the name of the carbuncle hunter who was the oldest of the group and died when he saw it?
Seeker
What was the name of the carbuncle hunter who was a chemist and an alchemist and wanted the stone for scientific research?
Doctor Cacophodel
What was the name of the carbuncle hunter who was a weighty merchant and wanted it so he could sell it?
Ichabod Pigsnort
What was the name of the carbuncle hunter who didn’t believe it existed but devoted his life to prove that?
The Cynic with the spectacles
What was the name of the carbuncle hunter who wanted to keep the stone under his bed for inspiration?
The Poet
What were the name of the carbuncle hunters who wanted the stone for light in their home, found it, but chose to leave it there?
Matthew and Hannah
Who wrote Rip Van Winkle?
Washington Irving
Who wrote The Town Poor?
Sarah Orne Jewett
Who wrote The Pit and the Pendulum?
Edgar Alan Poe
Who wrote The Open Boat?
Stephen Crane
Who wrote The Great Carbuncle?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who wrote The Cop and the Anthem?
O. Henry
What author introduced the detective story?
Edgar Alan Poe
What was O. Henry’s real name?
William Sydney Porter
What author is famous for his surprise endings?
O. Henry
What author will always be associated with American folklore?
Washington Irving
What is an imaginative prose narrative written to give the reader entertainment and insight?
Short story
What happens
Plot
What it means
Theme
Who makes it happen
Character
The time, place, and general background
Setting
The attitude or emotion of the author or narrator toward his subject or audience
Tone and mood
What is the method of presenting the reader with the materials of the story, the perspective from which it is told?
Point of view
What is an all-knowing author which is the narrator who comments freely on the actions and characters as he is able to delve into the minds of all characters and tell what they think and feel?
Omniscient point of view
What is the story from the viewpoint of one character using either the first or third person?
Limited point of view
What is the story in which characters in action do not comment, allowing the reader to come to his own conclusions about them?
Objective point of view
What is a method of expression in which the intended meaning of the words used is the direct opposite of their usual sense?
Irony
Saying the opposite of what is meant is what type of irony?
Verbal irony
Contrasting what a character says and what a reader or audience knows to be true is what type of irony?
Dramatic irony
Presenting a discrepancy between appearance and reality or between expectation and fulfillment is what type of irony?
Irony of situation
What is the ridicule of human folly or vice with the purpose of correcting it, or for a humorous effect?
Satire
What is the unexpected twist at the end of the story which goes contrary to the reader’s expectations?
Surprise ending
