Ms. Mooney’s
Super-Fabulous
Short Story
Review Game
POINT OF VIEW
What are the FOUR short stories that are written in
1st person point-of-view?
“Charles”
“The Scarlet Ibis”
“The Tell-Tale Heart”
“The Cask of Amontillado”
What are the TWO short stories that are written in
3st person-limited point-of-view?
“The Lottery” and “A Retrieved Reformation”
Character Quotes! Who Said it?
“I must not only punish, but punish with impunity” (2).
Montresor
“Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon” (6).
Old Man Warner
“True-Nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and
am; but why will you say that I am mad? (145).
Narrator (TTH)
“He would live because he was born in a caul, and cauls
are made from Jesus’ nightgown” (1).
Aunt Nicey
FORESHADOWING!
OUTCOME:
Montresor will construct a wall of stone and mortar.
FORESHADOW:
Montresor presents a trowel as a sign of a mason.
OUTCOME:
The winner will be killed by stones and rocks.
FORESHADOW:
The boys gathered rocks in the town square.
SYMBOLISM
The Black Box
Tradition, Luck,
Chance
The Vulture
Eye
The Narrators
MADNESS
Scarlet Ibis
Doodle
Montresor’s
Coat of Arms
REVENGE
DRAMATIC IRONY
“A Retrieved Reformation”
Ralph Spencer is really the
infamous safe-cracker,
Jimmy Valentine
“The Tell-Tale Heart”
The Narrator is MAD.
The Narrator will kill the
old man.
The Narrator has buried
the old mans body under
the floorboards.
“The Cask of
Amontillado”
Montresor is planning his
REVENGE, punish Fortunato
SITUATIONAL IRONY
“A Retrieved Reformation”
JV used his criminal tools
to save a life!
“The Lottery”
The winner is
sacrificed/stoned to death.
Winning is actually tragic!
“Charles”
Laurie is Charles!
“The Scarlet Ibis”
Doodle dies in the storm.
EXTERNAL CONFLICT
(Man vs Man)
Montresor vs Fortunato
(Man vs Group)
Tessie vs The Village
(Man vs Man)
Jimmy Valentine vs
Det. Ben Price
Montresor and Fortunato are both driven by their
own pride and ego; a competition of power and
prestige
Tessie wins the lottery to become the sacrificial
winner. According to tradition, the town must
kill the winner using rocks and stones.
Jimmy Valentine cracks safes, and Det. Ben Price
attempts to catch the elusive bank robber and
build a case to keep JV in jail.
INTERNAL CONFLICT
(Man vs Self)
Montresor’s vs
his need for Revenge
(Man vs Self)
The Narrator vs
The Vulture-Eye
(Man vs Self)
Doodle’s Brother vs
His PRIDE
Montresor is fed up with Fortunato’s insults and
is determined to “punish with impunity”
to his satisfaction!
The Narrator is determined to kill his own
MADNESS by eliminating the vulture eye!
Doodle’s brother is embarrassed by Doodle and is
determined to teach him to walk so that he will
have a “normal” brother.
Characterization: Direct or Indirect?
“Jimmy, looking like and athletic young senior just home from college…”
(31).
Jimmy
DIRECT: young and handsome
“At first I just paraded him up and down the piazza, but then he started
crying to be taken out into the yard, and it ended up by me having to lug
him wherever I went” (2).
Narrator
INDIRECT: The Narrator sees his bother,
Doodle, as a burden
“The man wore motley. He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and
his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells” (2).
Fortuanto
INDIRECT: He is silly and enjoys festivities!
LITERATURE TERMS
The attitude the author has toward his/her subject.
TONE
The overall feeling the reader gets based on the
details in the story.
MOOD
A reference to a well-known person, place, event or
work of art.
ALLUSION
The reader learns about the character by what they
INDIRECT
do, say, think and how they treat other characters.
CHARACTERIZATION
The universal message or insight about life
expressed in a story.
THEME
THEMES
People are capable of change.
Madness upsets the delicate balance of
light and dark in human nature
“A Retrieved Reformation”
“The Tell-Tale Heart”
“…pride is a wonderful, terrible thing,
a seed that bears two vines, life and death” (2).
Violence and cruelty can come from
seemingly ordinary places.
“The Scarlet Ibis”
“The Lottery”