What type of narration is used in the story?

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Omniscient

• There isn't a narrator

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is the narrator doing throughout most of the story?

• He's riding on a bus.

• He's battling aliens.

• He's reading a book.

• He's hiding in the basement.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is the conflict/problem from the NARRATOR'S Point of View?

• His wife keeps bugging him so he moves to the basement to get away from her.

• He's attacked by giant eyes.

• Aliens are attacking Earth and dismembering - taking apart - humans piece by piece.

• The author of the book he's reading has discovered an alien race that has infiltrated Earth.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the conflict/problem in the story from the reader's (us) point of view?

• The narrator is an idiot.

• The narrator is making literal interpretations of sentences in the book - and the book's author is using phrases figuratively.

• The book that the narrator is reading is putting forth a conspiracy theory that some humans are actually aliens in disguise.

• The narrator is losing touch with reality because his wife is driving him crazy from being quarantined with the Coronavirus for so long.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is the climax of the story?

• The aliens eat his brain and begin throwing up all over the house.

• His wife calls him upstairs to dinner.

• The narrator slams the book shut and rushes out of his garage into the house.

• The aliens divide into two halves - one half goes to the movies and the other half goes shopping.

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

The very last line of the story is I have absolutely no stomach for it. This is an example of:

• Irony

• Sarcasm

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In the first paragraph of the story, the narrator says that he wrote to the government about his findings and the government sent him a pamphlet on the repair and maintenance of frame houses. This is an example of:

• Irony

• Sarcasm

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

This sentence from the end of the story, I joined them and played with frantic fervor, brow feverish, teeth chattering, is an example of

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Sarcasm

• Alliteration

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which of the following best describes this story?

• Satire (look it up)

• Sarcasm

• Tongue-in-cheek (look it up)

• Irony

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Look at question 9 again. What is the best explanation for the (correct) answer?

• The author is having fun playing with words.

• Aliens do not detach parts of their bodies.

• Playing monopoly doesn't solve anything.

• Reading books is dangerous.

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.1B