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Worksheets"The Lottery" Study Guide (refresher and vocab)
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 30mins
What is another way to define conflict?
The main problem of the story
The ways characters interact
The setting of the story
The ways in which the author writes a story
What does the word emphasize mean?
To show enthusiasm for a topic
To compare multiple topics
To bring special attention to
To paint a picture in the reader's mind
What does the term inciting incident mean?
The event that starts the falling action
The event that triggers the main conflict
The event that shows the setting and characters
The event that shows character development
How should I tackle vocabulary STAAR questions? (This is relevant for Friday's fiction skills quiz)
I look up the word in the dictionary and then forget I even did that to begin with
I look up the word in the dictionary and I choose the first definition
I look up the word in the dictionary and then I select a random answer
I look up the word in the dictionary and see if it matches the way the word is used in the sentence
What is author's voice?
The way an author writes about the conflict of a story
The unique style a writer uses to convey their message
The author and how they speak when talking to someone
The way an author develops the main plot of the story
Define theme
The patterns within a story
The main conflict of a story
The overall message of the story
The symbolism of the story
At what moment in the overall plot of a story does the conflict of the story reach a turning point?
Climax
Falling Action
Exposition
Rising Action
What is foreshadowing?
When the author uses dialogue to build character development
When the author uses their own unique style of writing to set the tone
When the author uses descriptive language to captivate an audience
When the author gives "hints" in the beginning of the story about an event later in the story
Who is Mr. Summers?
The official head of the lottery
A man with a terrible wife
The mayor of the village
The man who is sacrificed at the end
How are the names called when people draw for the lottery?
Reverse order
Numerical order
Alphabetical order
First name order
Who is Tessie Hutchinson?
The woman married to Bill
The protagonist (main character)
The official head of the lottery
The woman who draws first
What ends up being the result of the lottery?
Tessie Hutchinson arrives late to the drawing
Bill Hutchinson volunteers himself as tribute
Mr. Summers ends the lottery and they all go home
Tessie Hutchinson is chosen and stones are thrown at her
What is the inciting incident of the story?
When Tessie Hutchinson draws the black dot
When Mr. Summers begins the process of the lottery itself
When the kids begin to pile stones in the town square
When The Hutchinson family arrives to the lottery
What is the climax of the story?
When Mr. Summers begins the process of the lottery itself
When Tessie Hutchinson shouts "it isn't fair!"
When it is revealed that the Hutchinsons have drawn the black dot
When Old Man Warner mentions he was in the lottery seventy-seven times
What is the significance of the black box to the story?
The box holds papers, one which has a black dot, and is used to determine who is sacrificed
The box holds the information to what Mr. Summers does at the coal factory
The box is nothing really, not an important part of the story at all
The box contains all the names of each family and those names are drawn randomly
