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1 Name: Period: Sullivan Eng I Advanced Short Story Unit THIS WILL COUNT AS A MAJOR GRADE WHEN COMPLETE. Reading questions: 50 points Map: 15 points Charts and diagrams: 35 points The Most Dangerous Game by 1. Describe the interior of Zaroff s home. How does the setting create a different mood from that of the jungle outside? Support your answer with details from the story. 2. The word game can have two different denotations. Explain both: 3. Identify an example of foreshadowing from the beginning of the story: 4. What three tricks does Rainsford use during the game? 5. What do the tricks tell you about Rainsford? 6. Considering #3 & 4, what kind of characterization is this? 7. What do you think Zaroff means when he says to himself, the American hadn t played the game? 8. Theme: What message about human nature do you think the author conveys in this story? 9. Visual Imagery: Discuss the various ways that color is used to set a mood in the story. How does such visual language add to the development of the setting? 10. Setting: How does the fact that the story took place on an island contribute to the story? 11. Do you think the story is a commentary on the ethics of hunting? Why or why not? What moral positions about hunting could be drawn from the story?

2 Plot: Draw a colored map of Ship Trap Island on a piece of 8 ½ x 11unlined paper. Number EVERY location around the island identified in the short story in the order they appeared in the story. On the back of your map, make a key that lists the numbers of the locations with a brief description of each location. Fold and attach that map here. DO NOT USE MARKERS! Neatness counts. MORE SPECIFIC DIRECTIONS WILL BE HANDED OUT IN CLASS. DO NOT BEGIN THIS ASSIGNMENT UNTIL INSTRUCTED.

3 The Most Dangerous Game Conflict Chart Identify three conflicts in the story and explain how each conflict enhances the plot. Type of Conflict How do I know? Examples Quote to support example Why suspenseful? Explanation Man vs. Nature Give at least one example: Offer TWO pieces of textual evidence Man vs. Himself Give at least two examples: Offer THREE pieces of textual evidence. Man vs. Man Give examples of at least three confrontations: Offer THREE pieces of textual evidence.

4 The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe 1. Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration to make a point. Look at the fi rst paragraph. What phrase used by the narrator is an example of hyperbole? Write down the full sentence that includes the hyperbolic element. Does this line make you more sympathetic or less toward the narrator/murderer? Why? 2. Montresor tells us, A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. In your own words, explain what this means. 3. Explain the characterization of Fortunado. What is it about Montresor that makes him an especially effective enemy to Fortunato? Give an example from a book you ve read or a film/t.v. show you ve seen in which this type of villain exists. 4. Fortunato, who has been out drinking and enjoying Carnival, is wearing a clown s hat. Symbolically, why is this an interesting and appropriate costume choice by the writer, Edgar Allan Poe? 5. To whom, do you suppose, is Montresor telling this story? Upon what evidence do you base your assumption? 6. Name three of the many clever things Montresor does to lure Fortunato into his trap. 7. How did Montresor ensure that no servants would be around to witness the crime? 8. Poe uses several elements of foreshadowing. Write down (or paraphrase) two lines that foreshadow the grisly event at the end of the tale. 9. Locate and write down a line that includes verbal irony.

5 10. This is the Montresor family s coat of arms. Symbolically, why is this an appropriate image for our narrator? 12. When Montresor offers the Medoc wine to Fortunato, what is the reason he gives for wanting the other man to drink? What is the real reason? Why does Montresor also have a drink? 13. At the end of the story, what makes Montresor feel sick? 14. Is Montresor a reliable or unreliable narrator? Explain your answer. 15. Poe is a master at creating an eerie, suspenseful mood in his stories. Dig back into the text of this story and write down two lines that help establish this mood. Yes, I want you to write down the full line. 15. Montresor acts as judge, jury, and executioner of Fortunato. Is there any crime/offense that Fortunato could have unwittingly committed that would make Montresor s rage seem reasonable to you? Do you think individuals are ever justified in taking justice into their own hands? Explain your thoughts. Draw a Freytag s pyramid of the short story. Include exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution:

6 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by Reading questions: 1. Compare the way Mitty is treated by people in his dreams with the way he is actually treated in his real life. 2. Explain two methods by which Thurber makes the story humorous. 3. What is a theme of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty? 4. Explain how the theme is revealed through Walter Mitty s actions? The events in James Thurber's story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty follow a pattern. Something triggers Mitty's daydream and becomes part of it. The daydream proceeds until something interrupts it. Use the graphic organizer below to find the details that create the story's pattern. Trigger Daydream Interruption Navy hydroplane surgery/anesthetizer courtroom scene Air Force pilot firing squad

7 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Film & Short Story Comparison 1. What is the greatest similarity between the story and the film? 2. For what purpose might the director have chosen to adapt the story in this way? 3. What is the most significant story element added to the movie? What purpose does this element serve? 4. Which medium better represents the idea behind The Secret Life of Walter Mitty overall? Why? Name the two MAIN characters. Offer ONE example each of how they are characterized. What conflict(s) are portrayed in the work? Short Story Film What is the climax of the work? What is the mood of the work? How is it conveyed? What is the theme of the work? How is it conveyed?

8 The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Reading Questions 1. On which day does the Lottery fall each year? 2. Why did Mr. Summers replace the original wood chips with slips of paper? 3. Who shows up late to the lottery? 4. Why is this character late? 5. Who is not in attendance? 6. Why is this character absent? 7. What is the procedure for someone who cannot attend? 8. Which part of the story foreshadows the lottery? 9. How is irony used in the story? 10. Symbolism: What do the black box and stones represent? 11. Why do the townspeople participate in the lottery? 12. Why don t they stop having it? 13. Why are people afraid of change? 14. What role do women play in the fictional town? 15. Shirley Jackson said she had the setting in the present tense (she wrote it in 1948) in order to shock the readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives. What pointless violence and general inhumanity is she referring to? 16. Consider the author s statement above and your response to it. What message about humanity might be understood by the reader?

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