Short Story Test Review

Exaggeration to provoke strong emotion, to create humor or to make a point.

This motif describes a descent from a higher to lower state of being.

What does Mrs. Jong want for her daughter that she does not have for herself?

This archetypal color represents: blood, wounds, fire, emotions

Archetypal character: vulnerable woman who must be rescued by the hero.

Complex character that undergoes development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader.

Montresor is what type of character in the short story?

A reference in literature to a familiar person, place, thing or event.

Plot Line: What is part 3?

This color archetype represents: purity, virginity, innocence

Archetypal place: death, hopelessness, barren, waste

Results when the actual outcome differs from what is expected.

"Enough," [Fortunato] said. "The cough's a mere nothing; it will not kill me."

Compares similar things or ideas WITHOUT using the words LIKE or AS.

Archetypal character: Individuals are servants and who are heroic themselves.

"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles,"

Words that paint a picture for the reader

"... and looked dully at a gray cat walking on a gray fence in a gray backyard."

Repetition of the initial consonant sounds.

Archetypal Character: Man who is helpful, older person.

"He seemed all head, with a tiny body which was red and shriveled"

Madame Sofronie is what type of character?

Archetypal place: isolation

What type of character is Rainsford?

To save the kingdom, to win the fair lady, to identify himself so that he may resume his rightful position.

Fairy tales were originally shared by word of mouth.

Literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, natural forces, animals or ideas.

"The alley was quiet and I could see the yellow lights shining from our flat like two tiger's eyes in the night."

This motif describes the search for someone who when found and brought back will restore fertility to a wasteland.

The game of chess is used as a ______ to represent the rules of life.

Leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel or other fictional text.

Plat Line: what is part 2?

Archetypal place: paradise, innocence, unspoiled, beauty, feritily

Archetypal character: Evil incarnate, offers worldly goods, fame or knowledge to the protagonist.

Archetypal character: good, beautiful maiden, usually blonde, may make an ideal marriage.

"The dreadful debt must be paid."

Archetypal character: self-sacrifice, will endure separation & hardship for the sake of his people.

Characters that are undeveloped in a text, the character does not change.

Madame Loisel is what type of character?

The use of the color red throughout the short story is:

What type of character is General Zaroff?

Archetypal place: rigidity, civilization, fallen world, hypocrisy

Compares different things or ideas by using the words LIKE or AS.

This archetypal color represents: darkness, evil, fear

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could"

"Two great tears escaped from the corners of her eyes"

This archetypal color represents: hope, vegetation, growth.

A character who is well developed in a text.

A character who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something.

Archetypal character: witch, sorceress, siren, wicked stepmother

"On three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows."

Concrete object used to represent an abstract idea.

Plot Line: what is part 4?

What is the red borsch symbolic of in this short story?

"The Gift of the Magi" is a literary allusion to which story from the Bible?

Plot Line: what is part 1?

Fairy tale justice is when good characters receive punishments for their bad deeds.

Archetypal character: symbolic of fertility, abundance, warmth, protection

"Mama once said, "And God bless the Pearsons, whose boy Joe was lost at Belleau Wood."

A primordial image, character, story, symbol, situation or pattern that recurs through literature.

How does Meimei show that she understands the use of strategy even before she starts playing chess?

Plot Line: what is part 5?

Fortunato is dressed like a court jester or clown. This detail serves as what in the short story?

This archetypal color represents: space, coolness, thinking

The jeweler stating "It was not I, madame, who sold the necklace."

"They named him William Armstrong, which is like tying a big tail on a small kite."