The Necklace Short Story Analysis Sheet (Page 2 of 2) in pdf

The Necklace Short Story Analysis Sheet Page 2

Literary Terms and Techniques

Plot Details:

Exposition – Learning about Madame and Monsieur Loisel and their

background

Rising action – Receiving an invitation to the ball, buys a dress and borrows

the necklace, has a wonderful time at the ball

Climax – Discovers the loss of the necklace, looks everywhere and cannot find

Falling action – They buy a matching replacement and spend 10 years paying

it off

Resolution – Madame Loisel comes clean to Madame Forrestier and finds out it

was a fake.

Identify at least five literary elements used and cite examples from the text.

Alliteration – “Every possible physical privation.” “Attended the party and

attracted everyone’s attention.” “She would weep whole days.” “whose wife will

be turned out…” “…madame, I must have merely supplied the clasp.”

Flashback – “But sometimes, when her husband was at the office, she sat

down by the window and thought of that evening long ago…”

Foreshadowing – Madame Forrestier easily lends her the necklace. The

jeweler says, “It was not I who sold her the necklace, I merely supplied the

clasp.”

Runs down the stairs at the ball

Imagery – “Her hair was badly done, her skirts were awry, her hands were red.

She spoke in a shrill voice and the water slopped all over the floor when she

scrubbed it.”

Irony – See Irony WS

Metaphor – “She seemed to float through a cloud of happiness.”

“she danced madly, drunk with pleasure.”

“Loisel, who had aged five years…”

Personification – “mean walls”

Simile – “One of those old night-prowling carriages which are only to be seen

in Paris after dark, as though they are ashamed.”

Symbolism – Fake jewels = beautiful and simple life, real = greed

Fake necklace = Mathilde’s desire to be something she is not.

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