Questions and Hopeful Answers!

NOTE: Brilliant Silence is two posts below this one


1. In a sentence or two summarize the plot of the story.

2. Examine the first sentence for each story. How does the first sentence attempt to draw you into the rest of the story. For example, look for how the reader is "surprising" us.

3. How does the ending support or enhance the rest of the story?

4. Explain how the title highlights or showcases an important theme, character, setting, or plot element of the story.

5. What was your opinion of the story? Did you enjoy or not enjoy the story? Describe what you did like or not like. Try to support your opinion using appropriate literary device vocabulary (for example, if you liked the metaphor or parallel structure or climax in the story...mention that).