Metonymy, or The Husband's Revenge - LSHS

“Metonymy, or The Husband’s Revenge” by Rachel de Queiroz p. 4521. What is a frame story?Name:2. What does metonymy mean?3. How is the telephone anecdote an example of applied metonymy? In other words, what is the woman mad aboutand whom is she blaming?4. List at least three descriptors given about the man in the story. (p. 454)a.b.c.5. If the man is so detestable looking, how was he able to get a wife?6. What is the tone in the following sentences? “Therefore, although so unattractive personally, he was able tofind himself a wife. In all justice to him, he did not tempt fate by marrying a beauty. Instead, he married apoor, emaciated girl, who worked in a men’s clothing factory.”a. friendlyb. humorousc. suspenseful7. How did the man’s wife look when they got married and how did her appearance change?8. What literary device is used in the following sentence: “And then Fate intervened: it produced a sergeant”?a. allusionb. metaphorc. personificationd. simile9. List three descriptors given about the sergeant in the story.a.b.c.10. What literary devices are being used in the following passage from the text: “…they loved with a forbiddenlove, like Tristan and Isolde or Paolo and Francesca”? (Mark all answers.)a. simileb. allusionc. metaphord. understatement11. Why does the man’s wife cry and not eat?

12. What was the “supreme discovery” the man made?13. Why does the husband want revenge?14. Whom does the husband kill?15. Why does the husband kill this person?