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$100 Question from H2

What’s the purpose in “Lamb to the Slaughter?”

$100 Answer from H2

Don’t harm the innocentOr weak people are stronger thanYou think.

$200 Question from H2

What’s the purpose in “Masque of the Red Death?”

$200 Answer from H2

You can’t run from death no matterwhat you try.

$300 Question from H2

What’s the purpose in “The Pedestrian?”

$300 Answer from H2

A warning to the harmfuleffects of technology on futuregeneration.

$400 Question from H2

What strategy does Dahl use in “Lamb to the Slaughter?” Give an example to illustrate this.

$400 Answer from H2

Symbolism or characterization of Mary.

$500 Question from H2

What strategy does Bradbury use in “The Pedestrian?” Provide an example to illustrate.

$500 Answer from H2

He describes the setting vividly.

$100 Question from H3

What are the three most basic conflicts?

$100 Answer from H3

Man vs. self, man vs. man, and man vs. nature

$200 Question from H3

What does “en medias res” mean?

$200 Answer from H3

In the middle of.

$300 Question from H3

Define the term symbol.

$300 Answer from H3

A regular object with a larger, abstract meaning assigned to it.

$400 Question from H3

What are the 5 different types of indirect characterization?

$400 Answer from H3

Speech, actions, appearance, thoughts, and other character’s

thoughts.

$500 Question from H3

Define the term irony.

$500 Answer from H3

The contrast between what seems to be and what is.

$100 Question from H4

Walks at night, writer, no TV.

$100 Answer from H4

Leonard Mead

$200 Question from H4

Hides from the Red Death, likes the bizarre, and name means “prosperity.”

$200 Answer from H4

Prince Prospero

$300 Question from H4

Follower, hurts the innocent, and is nervous about something.

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Pat Maloney

$400 Question from H4

Not human, asks questions, and takes people places.

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Robot car.

$500 Question from H4

Listens to Mary, is Mary’s alibi, and works at night.

$500 Answer from H4

Sam the Grocer

$100 Question from H5

What does Mary use to kill Patrick?

$100 Answer from H5

Frozen Lamb

$200 Question from H5

Why does Leonard Mead get arrested?

$200 Answer from H5

For walking.

$300 Question from H5

What do Prospero and his friends due after 5 months of seclusion?

$300 Answer from H5

Throw a masked ball.

$400 Question from H5

What does Mary say after killing Patrick?

$400 Answer from H5

All right, so I’ve killed him.

$500 Question from H5What does Bradbury compare the cars to in

“The Pedestrian?”

$500 Answer from H5

Scarab beetles/bug.

Final JeopardyExplain, in detail, how Dahl proves his purpose in “Lamb to the Slaughter.”

Final Jeopardy AnswerMary is characterized as weak in the beginning to show that she’s innocent and symbolic of the lamb, then symbolically kills Patrick with a lamb to destroy her status as the lamb.