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The Yellow Wallpaper Trivia Game #2

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    The Yellow Wallpaper
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  • As a child, was the narrator creative with a big imagination or was she realistic and serious?
    creative with a big imagination
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  • What type of figurative language does the author use to describe the images in the wallpaper?
    personification
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  • Who has control of the narrator's life: herself, or John?
    John
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  • describe the narrator's room in detail
    bars on the window, yellow torn up wallpaper, a rough looking bed, rings on the walls
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  • What does John compare a visit from some fun friends to?
    Fireworks in his wife's pillowcase
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  • What animal does John call the narrator (his wife)?
    A blessed little goose
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  • Is this story written in 1st person or 3rd person?
    1st person
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  • Does John want his wife (the narrator) to write down her thoughts?
    No, she is not allowed to and has to hide her writing
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  • Who is taking care of the house and narrator when John is not around?
    John's sister Jennie
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  • describe the house that the narrator and her husband are renting
    big, way out in the country, untenanted until they moved in
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  • What was wrong with the woman (narrator)?
    postpartum depression, female hysteria, mental illness
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  • What kind of a room does the narrator believe her room once was?
    a nursery or gymnasium
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  • What word does the narrator frequently use to describe the movement of the woman in the wallpaper?
    creeping
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  • When does the narrator usually sleep?
    during the day
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  • What does John do at the end of the story?
    He faints
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  • Whom does the narrator want to visit although John will not let her?
    Her cousins
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