Lady or the Tiger? Review Giacone

It was one of the fairest and loveliest damsels of the court who had been selected as the reward of the accused youth... and the princess hated her.

What does this teach you about the princess?

• She is passionate and jealouse

• She is willing to share her lover with the rest of the kingdom

• She is very intelligent

• She wants to trick her father.

How does the king administer justice?

• He has his own police department

• His Private security team puts criminals in jail

• He puts them in the arena where they choose one of two doors

• He sends them to his Latin neighbors.

Why does the author shift narration at the end of the story?

• To make the story interesting and suspenseful

• He wants the reader to answer the question who came out the door: the lady or the tiger

• He loves an ambiguous ending

• He is comfortable writing second person narration

Why does the author shift narration at the end of the story?

• To make the story interesting and suspenseful

• He wants the reader to answer the question who came out the door: the lady or the tiger

• He loves an ambiguous ending

• He is comfortable writing second person narration

Peanut Butter was a ______ student because she always did homework and went to bed on time.

• incorruptible

• decree

• virtuous

• impartial

Which of the following is a metaphor found in the story?

• Every heart stopped beating

• The vast ocean of anxious faces

• That hot blooded semi-barbaric princess

• the king and his court were in their places

If the lover selected the door with the tiger , he was said to be

• innocent

• guilty

• attacked

• chased by a lion

Which citation best shows that the princess would lead her lover to the door with the tiger?

• “Would it not be better for him to die at once, and go to wait for her in the blessed regions of semi-barbaric futurity?”

• “How often, in her waking hours and in her dreams, had she started in wild horror, and covered her face with her hands as she thought of her lover opening the door on the other side of which waited the cruel fangs of the tiger!”

• “The king and his court were in their places, opposite the twin doors, those fateful portals, so terrible in their similarity.”

• “How often, in her waking hours and in her dreams, had she started in wild horror, and covered her face with her hands as she thought of her lover opening the door on the other side of which waited the cruel fangs of the tiger!”

If you do not hand in your work, it is ______ that you will fail ELA class.

• semi barbaric

• fervid

• Inevitable

• impartial

A theme in "The Lady or The Tiger?" is:

• The arena as a place to punish and entertain.

• The problems with a monarch in government

• The importance of love over hate

• The role of fate or choice