Study guide-izzle.
Below you will find vocabulary terms, short answer questions, essay responses, and many other
words put together to form sentences on things that you have covered during your last
semester as a senior. The information comes:
Literary devices
The Demon Lover
Araby
You will need to know all of the information on this study guide for your final examination.
Definitions of literary devices
Vocabulary terms
Setting
Imperturbable
Allusion
Garrulous
First-person point of view
Stint
Third-person/omniscient p.o.v.
Dramatic irony
Symbol
Incessant
Innumerable
Pervade
Flashback
Prosaic
Foreshadow
Naïve narrator
Ambiguity
Diction
Descriptive details
Epiphany
Diction
Metaphor/extended metaphor
Implicit
Explicit
Argument
Connotation
Word ananlogy
Spectral
Circumscribe
Emanate
The Demon Lover
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2.
Why does Mrs. Drover mistrust the caretaker?
When Mrs. Drover takes her letter upstairs, what details of the changing weather foreshadow dangerous
events to come?
3. Why does Mrs. Drover remain in the house after the letter frightens her so much?
4. How does Bowen generate suspense when using the clock to foreshadow events? Use one detail from the
story to support your response.
5. What is the young Kathleen’s clearest memory about saying goodbye to her soldier?
6. In the flashback that describes Kathleen’s marriage to Mr. Drover, what important information do you
learn about Kathleen’s life after her soldier disappears?
7. What helps Mrs. Drover feel better after leaving the house?
8. What is disturbing about the location of the letter?
9. What effects does Mrs. Drover’s life have on her appearance? Include two details from the story?
10. What happens after Kathleen gets into the taxi?
Araby
1.
2.
Why does Mangan’s sister come out to the front steps?
The narrator says his eyes are often full of tears and his heart floods when he thinks of Mangan’s sister.
What do you learn about the narrator from these first-person p.o.v. comments?
3. What is Araby?
4. Whilst waiting to go to Araby, the narrator is stuck at home with whom?
5. What is happening at Araby when the narrator arrives?
6. How does the narrator’s plan to go to Araby affect him while he waits for the day? Include at least one
detail from the story (more to make your claim stronger).
7. How does Araby remind the narrator of a church after the service is over?
8. Whilst waiting for the night of the bazaar, the narrator worries about what?
9. What does the first-person point of view help convey when the narrator describes walking through the
dark, empty bazaar?
10. How does the narrator show his impatience while waiting to go to the bazaar on that evening? Include
two details from the story in your response.
Possible open responses:
How does the story suggest that first love is destructive? Support your response with details from the story. (Araby)
What is the relationship between romance and everyday life in this story? Support your answer with details from
the story. (Araby)
What affects Mrs. Drover more on the day during which the story takes place: the past or her present life? Support
your opinion with details from the story. (The Demon Lover)
How does Bowen’s use of ambiguity when describing the soldier add to the story’s suspense? Use details from the
story to support your response. (The Demon Lover)