english test short stories

the lesson

story about poor children in FAO schwartz realising differences in wealth

The ones who walk away from omelas

About a perfect place where a boy suffers in a cellar so that the perfection of the city can remain.

the flowers

about a young girl finding body in flower fields and losing innocence

The Red Convertible

about 2 brothers, one returns from war and is not the same, kills himself at end of story

story

woman sees significant other cheat, stalks him and tries to come up with explaination

China

unhappy marriage, husband takes up martial arts

Pet milk

nostaligic story, train ride,young love

Sticks

distant dad, uses sticks in yard to convay emotion

the twenty-seventh man

stallion rounds up poets to kill and accidentally take boy

bullet in the brain

man in bank, gets shot , thinks about baseball game while dying

the fix

man can fix anything, hunted by everyone and gov, kills himself at end

water child

doctor who removes vocal box, has abortion and shuts out her family

The paper menagerie

mom from china was bought by the dad, mom has ability to make oragami come to life, son pushes away culture and oragmi dies with mom

The dune

judge can see who will die soon by writings in sand on a dune, brings Realtor in and tells him his name was on dune

The great silence

parrot reports on human negligence to hear voices other than their own

midnight zone

distant mom takes family to trip hunting range with panther on the lose, hits head and her kids have to care for her

syntax

The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

diction

A writer's or speaker's choice of words

imagery

Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

tone

Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

Charcterisation

tells you somthing about how character thinks or acts and how they are as a person