Read the lottery by shirley jackson. the story can be found at the following link:
the lottery - full text
using the plot map below as a reference, write a 5 paragraph response to the story. each paragraph will address a set of literary elements from the story.
paragraph 1: exposition
a. setting
b. characters
c. mood
d. point of view
paragraph 2: rising action
a. protagonist
b. antagonist
c. conflict
d. mood
paragraph 3: climax
paragraph 4: falling action
a. conflict outcome
b. resulting events
paragraph 5: resolution
a. final outcome
b. theme

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver. the use of the epic simile in this excerpt readers understand that— they cyclops has eaten another bunch of odysseus men. odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave. the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved my the giant cyclops the cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings