WORLIT030 ASSIGNMENT 6-B.
THE NECKLACE
INSTRUCTIONS: QUOTE AT LEAST TWO PHRASES OR LINES FROM THE STORY THAT ILLUSTRATE THE
FOLLOWING. Write the lines in the right column.
1.France as location of the story
2. 19th century as time setting
3. Mathilde’s discontentment of her social status
4. Monsieur Loisel’s happiness and contentment
5. Madame Forestier’s friendliness and generosity
6. Madame Loisel’s internal conflict.
7. External conflict between Monsieur & Madame
Loisel.
8. Madame Loisel as a dynamic character
(1)“They walked down toward the Seine
in despair”. (2) “They were dropped off
at their door in the Rue des Martyrs”.
(1) "Very well, I can give you four
hundred francs. But try and get a really
beautiful dress."(2) “They found, in a shop at
the Palais Royal, a string of diamonds that
seemed to them exactly like the one they had
lost.”
(1) “She suffered endlessly, feeling she
was entitled to all the delicacies and
luxuries of life”. (2) “Nothing. Only I
have no dress and so I can't go to this
party.”
(1)“You could wear flowers instead of
jewelries, they are very fashionable at
this time of year, Monsieur Loisel said”.
(2) "No; there is nothing more
humiliating than looking poor in the
middle of a lot of rich women."
(1)Madame Forestier went to her
mirrored wardrobe, took out a large
box, brought it back, opened it, and
said to Madame Loisel "Choose, my
dear."(2) Madame Forestier, deeply
moved, took both her hands. "Oh, my
poor Mathilde! Mine was an imitation! It
was worth five hundred francs at most!
(1) She was distressed at the poverty of her
dwelling, at the bareness of the walls, at the
shabby chairs, the ugliness of the curtains. (2)
(1)Madame Loisel stared at Monsieur Loisel
angrily and said, impatiently: "And what
do you expect me to wear if I
go?”(2)Madame Loisel was not
convinced to wear flowers instead of
jewelry as a suggestion of Monsieur
Loisel.
“Madame Loisel looked old now. She had
 become the woman of impoverished
households--strong and hard and rough.”
9. Pessimistic and ironic atmosphere (1) “She suffered because of the
poorness of her house as she looked at
the dirty walls, the worn-out chairs and
the ugly curtains.”(2)” Mr. Loisel and
Madame Loisel move into a shabby apartment
and live in poverty for ten years”
10. Simile (1) “She danced wildly, with passion,
drunk on pleasure, forgetting
everything in the triumph of her
beauty”.(2)
11. Metaphor
12. Irony Monsieur Loisel threw his wraps over her wife’s
elegant dress, the wraps he had brought, the
modest wraps of common life
13. Personification
14. Hyperbole
15. Foreshadowing
16. Auditory imagery
17. Visual imagery (1)“she suddenly perceived a woman who was
leading a child. It was Madame Forestier, still
young, still beautiful, still charming.”(2)

18. Tactile imagery She washed the dishes, using her dainty fingers
and rosy nails on greasy pots and pans.
19. Olfactory imagery (1) Monsieur Loisel uncovered the soup tureen
and declared with a delighted air, "Ah, the good
soup! I don't know anything better than that,"
(2)
20. Twist ending Madame Forestier, deeply moved, took her
hands.
"Oh, my poor Mathilde! Why, my necklace was
paste! It was worth at most only five hundred
francs!"

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