ELA 20 Short Stories unit test

ELA 20 - please read over questions from ELA notes for further studying as this only includes a small portion of questions

What POV was “The Cask of Amontillado” written in?

First Person

What is the theme of “The Cask of Amontillado”

deception and/or revenge and the destructive effects of revenge.

What is the POV of Saturday Climbing

Third person limited

What is the theme of Saturday Climbing

Regardless of various conflicts a parent and child experience. A parent is ready to take the risk and support their child no matter what even if it takes time to become what they consider an ideal parent

What is the POV of Harrison Bergeron

Third person omniscient

What is the theme of Harrison Bergeron

Individuality shouldn’t be oppressed and that everyone should be unique in their own way

What is the POV of Hey Come Out

third person, but not limited or omniscient

Theme of Hey Come Out

What goes around comes around through environmental reasoning

POV of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Third person limited

Theme of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

the idea of daydreaming to escape reality — in this case boredom

What do you think Montresor’s motivation is for killing Fortunato? What do you think Montresor means in the first paragraph of the story by “the thousand injuries” and “insult”

His motivation was how he possibly was treated by Fortunato and how he was (possibly) wronged in the past. What they mean in the first paragraph means all the times he was offeneded with the insult being the breaking point.

How does Poe motivate the behavior of Montresor? Does the story provide hints to the thousand injuries?

Poe motivates his behaviour by showing his obsession with revenge. There isnt any hints just name calling that doesnt fully apply.

Why is the setting of “The cask of Amontillado” apppropiate

theres a strong contrast between a happy carnival and celebration to the dark catacombs

Discuss Montresor’s coat of arms and motto

coat of arms shows a snake bitting a foot that its being crushed by; motto could mean that no one can wrong them and get away with it. This represents his family’s pride and desire for revenge

Discuss the ending of the cask of amontillado

Montresor might have some guilt after killing Fortunato and shows irony by saying “may he rest in peace” after killing him and the described murder

Why do you think Valgardson chose to tell Saturday Climbing with multiple plots

to show the efforts that Barry took to support and spend time with his daughter.

Setting of Saturday Climbing provides an extended metaphor for the father-daughter relationship between Barry and Moira. Explain

The rock climbing during the story compares the relationship between Barry and Moira like difficult climbing with risks applied.

In Harrison Bergeron what is the significance of the dance Harrison performs with the ballerina? How does the style the in which the story is written change in this passage?

The significance is to show the ballerina and Harrison breaking free from the government’s restrictions and expressing their true abilities and individuality. The writing becomes more dramatic rather than the usual narration

Symbols in “hey come out”

Hole - how we treat the universe

destroyed shrine - respect for nature ( shift from respect to consumerism)

trash - pollution and moral corruption

old man - traditional wisdom and warning

echo and the pebble - karma; poetic justice

Stimuli for Walter Mitty

1st: driving

2nd: gloves and wearing them

3rd: newsboy shouting about the waterbury trial

4th: German bombing planes and pictures of ruined streets from an old copy of liberty

5th: smoking a cig while waiting for his wife at a drug store

Greatest difference between Walter Mitty movie and short story

Mitty does something and the actual setting are significantly different with how Mitty travels the world in the movie and Mitty staying in the same place in the story