Short Story Jeopardy Key
   

The Most Dangerous GameThe Scarlet IbisThe Cask of AmontilladoThe Gift of the MagiThe Monkey's PawPotpourri IPotpourri IIPotpourri III
Rainsford Doodle Montresor Jim and Della Dellingham Young The White family the main character in a literary work the descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures the use of clues to suggest events that have yet to occur
Zaroff Doodle dies Fortunato insulted him Poverty OR Madam Sofronie Two hundred pounds a character or force in conflict with the protagonist anything that stands for or represents something else literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality; situational, verbal, dramatic
The dog, Ivan, and Zaroff She is religious Carnaval They are too poor to buy Christmas presents Simple, everyday wishes a brief work of fiction the speaker or character who tells the story a character that develops and grows over the course of the story
Three Infant Doodle, Doodle's hair, the mahogany coffin, the tree, the bush, the ibis, the blood He is buried in the walls of the catacombs and stays there for fifty years her hair; his fob-chain; his watch; her combs Nine total (three left) a category or type of literature the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage a character that does not change over the story
Gunshots Symbol Motto of the Montresors; "No one attacks me with impunity." The wise men who brought gifts to the Nativity Flat and dynamic prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events the choice of narrator that directs the type and amount of information revealed a character that shows only one trait
Rainsford kills Zaroff and sleeps in his bed First person Montresor saying "I drink to your long life" when he will kill Fortunato Wise He is crushed by factory machinery, killed, buried, and brought back from the dead the time and place of the action First person a character that shows many different traits (faults as well as virtues)
Situational Pride The audience knowing Fortunato is unknowingly walking to his death When Della and Jim both buy something the other cannot use Herbert to go back to being dead sequence of events in a literary work; exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution Third person limited when the author directly states a character's traits
Indirect Flat and static Imagery Third person limited That the wishes will come true/will not be good the author's central message or insight into life Third person omniscient when the author tells what a character looks and acts like but not what they truly are

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