English 9 Short Story Exam Study Guide NOTE: This is a study guide‚ not a list of everything that will be on the exam. The fact that something is listed on here does not necessarily mean that it will appear on the exam‚ and just because it is not on this sheet does not mean that it will not appear on the exam. It is your job to study for the test. Test Format: 150 point Objective exam (multiple choice‚ true/false‚ matching‚ quotation identification) Bring a #2 Pencil 50 point Written Section
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Man has always lived in a most deceiving world‚ and departed from that idea‚ every self-respecting author wants to make his readers more sensitive to our planet as it stands. In libraries‚ shelves are overloaded with committed novels‚ but it is certainly possible to make an issue and to make the audience well-aware of its own naivety by the use of an ambivalent title‚ as Elizabeth Bowen and Saki have tried to do with their respective short stories ‘The Demon Lover’ and ‘The Open Window’. The first
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Preconception In the Saki’s short story the open widow Mr. Nuttel‚ a man of poor nerve and highly reserved‚ following his sister’s suggestions‚ tried to pay several visits to some nice people strongly recommended by his sister‚ hoping those visits could help the never cure he was supposed to be undergoing; however‚ it was on his visit to Mr. Sappleton that his semi-normal never was totally crushed by a story from a girl only aged 15 years old. The first half of story was casted by the shadow
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Using the Ideas of Northrup Frye to Compare The Open Window and The Tell-Tale Heart Brett Eiffes According to Northrup Frye’s book‚ The Anatomy of Criticism‚ there are two different modes of prose: the romance and the novel. In the case of shorter prose he calls them the tale and the short story. The short story‚ The Open Window by Saki‚ and the tale‚ The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe‚ demonstrate these two modes of prose fiction. While reading The Open Window I found it a more realistic
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Comparison Analysts People are always looking for a good scare or thriller. There are many stories and poems to choose from. However‚ the two stories that really stand out to the average reader are “The Open Window”‚ by Saki‚ and “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ by Edgar Allan Poe. Both stories offer unique characters‚ sophisticated plots and colorful imagery as well as contrasting narrators. “The Open Window” offers fast reading while “The Cask of Amontillado” offers slow but in-depth reading. These
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