Final Exam 2024/Spring

Sequence the events in the order in which they happened in the story, "The Necklace."

The author of "The Necklace" is...

a hint of what's to come in the future

"Oh, my poor Mathilde. But mine was only paste. Why, at most it was worth only five hundred francs." The word PASTE most nearly means...

"Oh, my poor Mathilde. But mine was only paste. Why, at most it was worth only five hundred francs." The WRITING STRATEGY used here is known as...

Oh OH! Madame Loisel loses her friend's necklace. This event represents THIS element of plot...

an object that represents an idea

She grieved over the shabbiness of her apartment, the dinginess of the walls, the worn-out appearance of the chairs, the ugliness of the draperies. This description helps to CHARACTERIZE Mathilde as….

In Maupassant's story, "The Necklace," the necklace itself is a symbol of…

"...she would dream of fashionable dinner parties, of gleaming silverware, of tapestries making the walls alive with characters out of history and strange birds in a fairyland forest..." This is an ALLUSION, or reference to a familiar story, known as…