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Analysis - The Lottery Questions and Answers
(100% Correct Answers)
Author?
Ans: Shirley Jackson
Setting - When was the story set?
Ans: 1900, summer time in June, bright
Setting - Where was the story happened?
Ans: Town square, A small town/village of about 300; tight-knit community
Exposition
Ans: gathering; describes setting
Point of View
Ans: 3rd person omniciant. We see all of the characters standpoints
characterization
Ans: indirect
Prediction
Ans: a statement foretelling the future.
figurative language
Ans: NONE
Plot?
Ans: Every year a small town holds a lottery; one person from each family get a slip
of paper. Whomever gets the dot then brings their family up and they all draw for the
dot again. If you are so lucky as to draw the dot, you, uh, don't have to take the final.
Bill Hutchinson gets the dot for round 1. Tessie, his wife, gets out of the final.*
*cause they stone her to death
Tone
Ans: Depressing, Tense, Dark, Horrific, Nervous, suspenseful
Rising Action
Ans: Kids pile stones; Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves carry over the black box;
Hutchingson family gets the black dot
Rising action
Ans: take papers from black box
Analysis - The Lottery Questions and Answers
(100% Correct Answers)
Author?
Ans: Shirley Jackson
Setting - When was the story set?
Ans: 1900, summer time in June, bright
Setting - Where was the story happened?
Ans: Town square, A small town/village of about 300; tight-knit community
Exposition
Ans: gathering; describes setting
Point of View
Ans: 3rd person omniciant. We see all of the characters standpoints
characterization
Ans: indirect
Prediction
Ans: a statement foretelling the future.
figurative language
Ans: NONE
Plot?
Ans: Every year a small town holds a lottery; one person from each family get a slip
of paper. Whomever gets the dot then brings their family up and they all draw for the
dot again. If you are so lucky as to draw the dot, you, uh, don't have to take the final.
Bill Hutchinson gets the dot for round 1. Tessie, his wife, gets out of the final.*
*cause they stone her to death
Tone
Ans: Depressing, Tense, Dark, Horrific, Nervous, suspenseful
Rising Action
Ans: Kids pile stones; Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves carry over the black box;
Hutchingson family gets the black dot
Rising action
Ans: take papers from black box
