Across
- 2. Tale These types of stories usually end in “grizzly details”; yes, they are meant to scare you into good behavior – kind of like those hunter safety class videos that illustrate how you should not hunt
- 5. “Wow, that kid is real Romeo- I think every girl in the building gave him a Valentine”; a literary term I refer to as “suitcase” words because they pack a lot
- 6. this almost became the weapon of choice by the jealous Banker in the short story “The Bet” when he discovered that the Lawyer was about to beat him in the wager he recklessly made
- 7. It is interesting that Edgar Allen Poe used this ambiguous word in his story which suggests both a face covering, but also a grand feast or ball
- 8. What you probably don’t want to find on your randomly-drawn paper in the short story “The Lottery”
- 12. What we might inaccurately call science fiction but is really a futuristic Story Genre with a rather dark twist; the opposite of “Utopia”
- 13. the number of rooms in the short story “Masque of the Red Death” (which may be a rather symbolic number about the passage of time…)
- 15. The apt name of the Prince in the Masque of the Red Death which may say something about his “Prosperity” and wealth
- 16. The shocking (implied) setting of the story “The Lottery” which seems to point a rather accusatory finger at rural, small-town living
- 17. If authors of this type of mocking fiction were artists, they would be political cartoonists; usually understood as “social commentary”
Down
- 1. The essential ingredient of almost every short story; Those “reversal moments” in a story when “life seems to be laughing at you from the shadows”
- 3. Think of a story with two “tails” (tales); Animal Farm from George Orwell would be an example of this genre
- 4. It is interesting that the parents call the virtual reality room in “the Veldt” this word because one of the central ideas of this short story is that parents are using tech to “babysit” their children
- 5. The manner in which Ray Bradbury harkens to the story of Peter Pan by using the names Peter and Wendy might be called an ________
- 8. Old man Warner might be accused of having this type of “unseeing”, or stubborn commitment to customs
- 9. What the small town of “The Lottery” might be guilty of; What might be called “following the crowd”, (or what we might equate with mindless Lemmings who would follow each other over a cliff).
- 10. On the surface it seems like the short story “The Bet” is about this controversial topic, but really it has more to do with Materialism
- 11. If authors of this Story Genre were public speakers they would probably be moralizing ministers or preachers; “Small Story, Big Idea”
- 14. This literary term might be more understood as one of those great “light bulb” moments of understanding; perhaps what the lawyer experienced in the short story “The Bet” after reading all those books!