Short Stories test – English 12
Test date –

• Swallowtails
• The Ant and the Grasshopper
• A Friend in Need
• The Cask of Amontillado
• Mr. Know-All

Short answer questions

– tie directly to specific stories.

Longer answer questions

– issues or situations that tie a couple of stories together, address the issue of short stories in general.

Possibilities

Literary devices – Foreshadowing, irony, repetition, symbolism & metaphor.

Dialogue – how it advances a story.

Imply / infer – “reading between the lines.”

"Gun Hanging on the wall" -  little items early in a story that turn out be important details by the end.

 Introductions - how they establish a tone and details that hold short and long term significance to the story.         

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