Unit 3- The American Short Story

Question 1

Who wrote “Rip Van Winkle”?

Answer 1

Washington Irving

Question 2

What is an imaginative prose narrative written written to give the reader entertainment and insight?

Answer 2

Short story

Question 3

What is the word that describes what happens in a story?

Answer 3

Plot

Question 4

What are the people who make things happen in a story called?

Answer 4

Characters

Question 5

What is the term that refers to what the story means?

Answer 5

Theme

Question 6

What is the time, place, and general background of a story?

Answer 6

Setting

Question 7

What is the attitude or emotion of the author or narrator toward his subject or audience in a story?

Answer 7

Tone or mood

Question 8

Tone or mood work together to give what to a story?

Answer 8

Unity

Question 9

Who was the author who was the first American writer to become famous throughout the world and has been called the “Inventor of the Short Story”?

Answer 9

Washington Irving

Question 10

What is the method of presenting the reader with the perspective from which the story is told?

Answer 10

Point of view

Question 11

What kind of point of view has an all-knowing author is the narrator who comments freely on actions and characters as he is able to delve into the minds of all the characters and tell what they think and feel?

Answer 11

Omniscient point of view

Question 12

What kind of point of view is it when the author tells the story from the viewpoint of one character using either the first or third person?

Answer 12

Limited point of view

Question 13

What kind of point of view does the author present the characters in action with no comment, allowing the reader to come to his own conclusions about them?

Answer 13

Objective point of view

Question 14

Who wrote “The Pit and the Pendulum”?

Answer 14

Edgar Allen Poe

Question 15

Who was the master storyteller whose stories and critical writings have influenced the development of the short story, and later turned to increasingly to mystery and horror tails and introduced the detective story, was also a poet, and was noted for the extremely melodic and eerie quality of his poetry?

Answer 15

Edgar Allan Poe

Question 16

Who wrote “The Cop and the Anthem”?

Answer 16

O. Henry

Question 17

What is a method of expression in which the intended meaning of the words used is the direct opposite of their usual sense?

Answer 17

Irony

Question 18

What kind of irony is saying the opposite of what is meant?

Answer 18

Verbal irony

Question 19

What kind if irony contrasts what the character says and what a reader or audience knows to be true?

Answer 19

Dramatic irony

Question 20

What kind of irony presents a discrepancy between appearance and reality or between expectation and fulfillment?

Answer 20

Irony of situation

Question 21

What is the ridicule of human folly or vice with the purpose of correcting it, or for a humorous effect?

Answer 21

Satire

Question 22

What is the unexpected twist at the end if the story which goes contrary to the reader’s expectations?

Answer 22

Surprise ending

Question 23

Who was the author whose real name was William Sydney Porter who wrote stories which are famous for their surprise endings and use of dialect?

Answer 23

O. Henry

Question 24

Who is the author from Maine who wrote “The Town Poor”?

Answer 24

Sarah Orne Jewett

Question 25

Who wrote “The Open Boat”?

Answer 25

Stephen Crane

Question 26

Who was the author who rebelled against his Christian heritage and did not recognize sin as sin but attempted to blame man’s behavior on social, economic, and environmental forces?

Answer 26

Stephen Crane

Question 27

Who wrote “The Great Carbuncle”?

Answer 27

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 28

Who was the author who was one of the first great American novelists and short story writers, and was convinced of man’s innate sinful nature, and he forcefully expresses his view in his penetrating characterization S and his use of themes dealing with sin and guilt?

Answer 28

Nathaniel Hawthorne