PartOne: Match the following.

____ 1. A series of events.

____ 2. A type of irony in which the opposite of what a reader expects to happen

does happen.

____ 3. The central character who undergoes a change.

____ 4. A sentence (or two) statement of meaning.

____ 5. The time and place of a story.

____ 6. The work which a reader is analyzing.

____ 7. A person, place or thing which has meaning beyond its literal meaning.

These meanings may be personal or universal.

____ 8. The “all-knowing” point of view.

____ 9. The cumulative techniques of a writer—sentence length, use of symbols,

word choice, etc.

___ 10. A point of view using only action, dialogue, and description—“the camcorder

is rolling.” Hemingway notoriously used this type.

___ 11. The use of an “I” to tell a story.

___ 12. The person, cultural values, etc. which the protagonist fights against.

___ 13. A character for whom we know possible two or three characteristics.

This type of character doesn’t undergo a change.

___ 14. Synonym for “protagonist.”

___ 15. Material commenting on the primary source.

___ 16. A point of view told in third person yet from a single perspective. Flannery

O’Connor used this point of view to enhance irony.

___ 17. A type of irony which is a close cousin to sarcasm—Mrs. May’s “iron hand.”

___ 18. A type of irony which focuses on the contrast between the way a character

sees himself/herself and the way other characters or the reader see/sees

him/her.

a. Secondary Source j. Theme

b. Narrative Style k. Objective Point of View

c. Omniscient Point of View l. Round Character

d. Irony of Situation m. Symbol

e. Dramatic Irony n. Plot

f. Protagonist o. First Person Point of View

g. Verbal Irony p. Setting

h. Primary Source q. Flat or Static Character

i. Limited Omniscient point of view r. Antagonist

Part Two: Identify the following spot passages by story title and author. There are two

quotations for each story we read. Be sure to place double quotation marks around the titles

of stories. A list of titles and authors follows this spot passages section.

1. …Baxter held the black box securely on the stool till Mr. Summers stirred the

papers….

2. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines

of rails in the sun.

3. He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more.

4. “She would have been a good woman,” the Misfit said, “if it had been somebody

there to shoot her every minute of her life.”

5. He’d take a cold one into the shower. The second one. He’d down the first one right

at the refrigerator.

6. The American and the girl with him sat at a table in the shade….

7. She was writing down the license plate numbers on his Buick, ones that he’d take off

a junk because the ones that belonged to his had expired so long ago.

8. He had the eye of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it.

9. “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and they were upon her.

10. I had finished a portion of the last and the eleventh; there remained but a single

stone to be fitted and plastered in.

11. She turned and tried to hold the baby over in a corner behind the stove.

But he came up. He reached across the stove and tightened his hands on the baby.

12. …but what if the baker won’t let me feel the bread?; you mean to say that after all

you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won’t let near the bread?

13. She was struggling getting dinner together, the boys were loud and complaining

about being hungry, well into the fifth beer…he snapped.

14. He felt the baby slipping out of his hands and he pulled back very hard.

In this manner, the issue was decided.

15. Wash the clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap.

16. “I didn’t even scratch my paint,” Jake told her in that way of his.

17. The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could; but when he

ventured an insult, I vowed revenge.

18. The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida.

Titles and Authors

For each spot passage, label with the title of the story (in double quotation marks) and the

author.

Stories and authors:

“Hills Like White Elephants” Flannery O’Connor

“Girl” Shirley Jackson

“Love in L.A.” Edgar Allan Poe

“Shout” Joyce Carol Oates

“The Cask of Amontillado” Jamaica Kincaid

“The Lottery” Dagoberto Gilb

“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Ernest Hemingway

“The Tell-Tale Heart” Raymond Carver

“Uncle Buck”

“Popular Mechanics”

“Hi Howya Doin’”

“Cathedral”

“Soldier’s Home”

Part Three: Discuss one of the following topics in a one-to-two-page, double-spaced essay

using one (or two) of the stories we’ve read to support your response. Be sure to address the

topic and to use detail and at least ONE quotation from the story(ies) in your essay.

Also, be sure to include the title(s) IN DOUBLE QUOTATIONS MARKS and the author’s

name. You must have an INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH!

a. The use of setting to develop character.

b. A parent-child or husband-wife relationship.

c. The use of flat characters to develop a protagonist.

d. The use of dramatic irony in terms of personal delusion or hypocrisy.

e. Epiphany as the term concerns a protagonist.

f. An analysis of an unreliable narrator.

g. Stephani Wagner says, “Pain travels through a family until someone is ready to

feel it.”

STORIES: THE LOTTERY BY Shirley Jackson AND THE CATHEDRAL BY Raymond Carver