Short Story Review

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Has a family coat of arms that features a snake biting a person’s heel

• Montresor

• Fortunato

• Ulrich von Gradwitz

• General Zaroff

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Dresses like a fool and is played like a fool

• Roger

• Fortunato

• Mathilde Loisel

• Brother

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Named William Armstrong, which was “like tying a big tail on a small kite”

• Doodle

• Brother

• Rainsford

• Montresor

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Is the second character to understand the irony of the Christmas gifts

• Georg Znaeym

• Mathilde Loisel

• Madame Forestier

• Della Dillingham Young

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A brutal man with sharp teeth and blood-red lips

• Ivan, the Cossack

• Rainsford

• General Zaroff

• Montresor

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While trapped in the woods, offers his wine flask to his enemy

• Georg Znaeym

• Rainsford

• Montresor

• Ulrich von Gradwitz

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Is given $10 and a lesson in morality

• Della Dillingham Young

• Rainsford

• Mathilde Loisel

• Roger

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Is the first character to understand the irony of the Christmas gifts

• Jim Dillingham Young

• Mrs. Jones

• Madame Forestier

• Roger

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Struggles to understand why we are cruelest to the ones we love most

• Roger

• Brother

• Montresor

• Rainsford

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Completely blinded by dried blood that crusted over his eyes

• Ivan, the Cossack

• General Zaroff

• Ulrich von Gradwitz

• Georg Znaeym

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Accepts her misfortune with unexpected grace and fortitude

• Mathilde Loisel

• Madame Forestier

• Della Dillingham Young

• Roger

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Was a hunter, but becomes the hunted after falling off a boat

• General Zaroff

• Montresor

• Rainsford

• Roger

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Carries a purse so large it holds everything but a hammer and nails

• Mary Maloney

• Mrs. Jones

• Mathilde Loisel

• Della Dillingham Young

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Dies in a trap intended to kill his employer

• Ivan, the Cossack

• General Zaroff

• Ulrich von Gradwitz

• Georg Znaeym

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Loans out a piece of costume jewelry

• Mathilde Loisel

• Della Dillingham Young

• Madame Forestier

• Mrs. Jones

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The gifts that Jim & Della give each other are both the worst and the best gifts they could have chosen.

• True

• False

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In “The Most Dangerous Game,” good triumphs over evil.

• True

• False

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Brother shares at least some responsibility for Doodle’s death.

• True

• False

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An Amontillado is a rare type of engraved Italian sword.

• True

• False

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Roger wanted money to buy a pair of brown suede shoes.

• True

• False

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The four elements of an introductory paragraph are the hook, bridge, summary,

and thesis.

• True

• False

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Using a rhetorical question is a weak way to launch an introductory paragraph.

• True

• False

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Symbolism is:

• hinting at something to come in the story

• an image, object, idea or used to represent something other than its literal meaning

• when the audience knows more than the character

• repetition of sounds at the beginnings of words

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Reliable Narrator is

• a person you can trust

• a person you cannot trust

• a flat character

• a static character

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Foreshadowing is

• repetition of vowel sounds in words

• a comparison without using like or as

• hinting at something coming up in the story

• standing over someone to create a shadow

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An unreliable narrator is

• a flat character

• a fake friend

• a person you can depend on to tell the truth

• someone you cannot trust to tell you an accurate story

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Dramatic irony is

• a monologue in a play

• when the reader knows more than the character(s)

• an image or object that represents something else

• a gossipy story told at lunchtime

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Alliteration is

• the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words

• the repetition of words at the beginning of sounds

• repeating the same instructions over and over

• the repetition of vowel sounds within words