The Last Leaf

The setting of the story is November 1899 in ...

• Washington

• California

• New York

• Texas

What type of person is attracted to Greenwich Village?

• artists

• doctors

• workers

• teachers

"An old, old ivy vine, gnarled and decayed at the roots" is an example of what type of imagery?

• Olfactory

• Kinesthetic

• Visual

• Auditory

The next day the doctor said to Sue: “She’s safe. You have done it. Food and care now - that's all."

Where is this excerpt in the story?

• Falling action

• Resolution

• Climax

• Rising action

"Toward winter a cold stranger entered Greenwich Village. No one could see him. He walked around touching one person here and another there with his icy fingers. He was a bad sickness. Doctors called him Pneumonia". Where is this excerpt in the story?

• Climax

• Exposition

• Rising action

• Resolution

“I want to go sailing down, down, like one of those leaves”.

What type of figurative language does this sentence contain?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

The internal conflict of “The Last Leaf” by O. Henry is the struggle that Johnsy faces within _______. The internal conflict of Johnsy is resolved when she sees that the last leaf has not fallen, despite the stormy night.

"But after the beating rain and the wild wind that had not stopped through the whole night, there still was one leaf to be seen against the wall. It was the last on the tree". Where is this excerpt in the story?

• Exposition

• Climax

• Rising action

• Falling action

The vine that clings to the wall outside Johnsy’s window represents the enduring connection between ______ and human life.

In "The Last Leaf" by O. Henry, _________ was personified as a human.