Preview of Elements of Fiction using The Lottery

Setting is the

• Location

• Time

• Social Environment

• All of the above

Setting is the

• Location

• Time

• Social Environment

• All of the above

In the story’s plot, author’s use setting to do the following...

• Create the mood

• Establish atmosphere

• Invoke emotion from the reader

• All of the above

A reader determines mood by identifying the setting and associating with the following details(s)

• Things

• Thoughts

• Feelings

• All of the above

Identifying the setting and the mood conveyed in the story, helps the reader...

• Relate

• Picture

• Predict

• All of the above

Rereading requires the reader to

• Read the sentence before, the sentence with the word, the sentence that follows

• Determine how it connects to the main idea

• Plug in the answer

• Predict the meaning

Every short story has a plot with events that develop the story’s...

• Setting

• Atmosphere

• Theme

• Mood

Describe how the village looks on the day of the lottery.

• Very metropolitan with shiny glass commercial buildings

• Neat houses, green lawns and flowers everywhere

• Gloomy and cold with gray houses

• Dusty, dry with paint peeling off the houses

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."

Shirley Jackson begins the story by developing, what literary element?

• Theme

• Characters

• Conflict

• Setting

What is the mood that is conveyed at the onset of The Lottery?

• Fear

• Tranquility

• Somber

• Confusion