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Modern Short Story/Satire
Senior English
Study Guide/Review Sheet
Know the following for the test:
Satire is a
Techniques of Satire
1. hyperbole
2. parody
3. generalization
4. incongruity
5. inversion/reversal
6. analogy
7. irony
a. verbal
b. situational
8. symbol
9. collage
10. montage
11. juxtapose
12. burlesque
“A Modest Proposal” Jonathan Swift
What is the purpose of the proposal?
Who will benefit from the proposal?
Why is the use of the word “ modest” ironic? What type of irony is it?
What are the major issues/problems in the Ireland that the narrator intends to solve?
Why does Swift use children as his subject? What is his intention?
What is Swift’s attitude toward the treatment of the poor of Ireland?
Swift uses satire to make his points. Locate in the text, how he uses both logical appeals and emotional
appeals.
Why won’t the narrator gain anything from this proposal?
What is the “role” the narrator assumes?
Describe the one objection that the narrator anticipates to his proposal.
In "A Modest Proposal," what does Swift propose doing to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland?
According to "A Modest Proposal," how long does Swift propose that mothers keep their children?
Swift titled his essay "A Modest Proposal." Which term best describes his use of the word modest?
Swift includes many facts and statistics in "A Modest Proposal." What seems to be his purpose in including
this information?
What is the author’s purpose in writing "A Modest Proposal"?
* Know the Literary Terms covered in class* (Stream of consciousness, Idiom, Euphemistic, Oxymoron,
Diction, Film Noir, Epiphany, Paradox and Allegory)
“The Destructors”
Graham Greene
Describe the time-period of when and where the story takes place.
Why does Mr. Thomas’s house reflect this era?
What do the gang members due on a usual basis under Blackie?
Describe T’s different attitudes toward society, other people and life.
Why would the gang members allow the newest gang member to become the leader?
What is the motive behind the gang’s actions? What are T’s motives?
Why does T plea with the other gang members to finish the destruction of the house and why do they
want to leave?
What is an accurate description of T?
“The LandLady”
Ronald Dahl
Who is Billy Weaver? Describe in detail.
What was Billy Weaver doing in the city of Bath?
Why did he not stay at the ‘Bell and Dragon’?
What is strange about the landlady?
What was Billy’s first impression
a.) of the house?
b.) of the landlady?
How many other guest had been there and how long ago? How do we know?
How does Billy react to this news?
Why did the landlady ask him to go to the sitting-room after he’d unpacked his bag?
What is strange about the animals in the sitting room? How does Billy react to this?
What can you surmise happened to the other guests? What is going to happen to Billy?
“Araby” James Joyce
The narrator’s desperation about going to the bazaar is heightened by what?
The narrator learns what truths on his journey?
How does the narrator’s experience at the stall of the young lady add to the story?
Epiphany, as the boy experiences it in this story, can be described as?
Most of the irony in this story stems from?
In "Araby," why is the narrator late in reaching Araby?
In "Araby," why does the narrator want to go to Araby?
Picture the narrator of "Araby" as he waits. When he finally gets to Araby, how does he feel?
What does Araby symbolize in "Araby"?
How do the narrator's feelings change from the beginning to the end of "Araby"?
In "Araby," what is the most important effect that speaking with Mangan's sister has on the narrator?
“The Rocking Horse Winner” D.H.Lawrence
The opening paragraphs of the story describe a family that is?
Paul’s mother blames the family’s financial status on what?
The rocking horse in the story most likely symbolizes what?
How does horse racing symbolize this family’s plight?
In "The Rocking-Horse Winner," what does Paul keep hearing the house whisper?
What prediction about "The Rocking-Horse Winner" would someone make after reading the first paragraph of
the story?
Why does Paul bet on horse races in "The Rocking-Horse Winner"?
How does Paul pick winning horses in "The Rocking-Horse Winner"?
What is one of the themes of "The Rocking-Horse Winner"?
Why does Paul avoid telling the secret of his rocking horse in "The Rocking-Horse Winner"?
In "The Rocking-Horse Winner," why didn't receiving 1,000 pounds on her birthday make the woman happy?
“Hard Times” Charles Dickens
In Hard Times, what is the basis of Thomas Gradgrind's teaching?
What are the little "pitchers" in this line from Hard Times?
What does Mr. M'Choakumchild's name suggest about his teaching style?
In Hard Times, why does Mr. Gradgrind insist on calling Sissy Jupe by the name Cecilia?
What is Dickens's purpose in describing Mr. M'Choakumchild in this line?
What is Dickens's object of social criticism in this excerpt from Hard Times?
Dickens has Mr. Gradgrind call Sissy "Girl number twenty" to emphasize that?
Dickens believes that a child's imagination is?
Dickens' purpose in writing Hard Times is to?
What is Mr. Gradgrind's teaching style?
What kind of student is Bitzer, in Mr. Gradgrind's opinion?