Welcome and Yellow Wallpaper Questions

Welcome to the 2017 -2018 school year.

Here are the questions about "The Yellow Wallpaper."  Please make sure you have read the story and finished the questions by tomorrow.

1. Identify five examples of figurative language (metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, synecdoche, metonymy) in the story.  What is the context of each example?  What is its purpose?  How does it contribute to the meaning of the story as a whole?
2. Create a plot diagram (pyramid with inciting action, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, etc.) for the story.
3. Identify the internal and external conflicts the protagonist faces.
4. Identify one or more themes of “The Yellow Wallpaper.”  In other words, what are the “big ideas?”