"The Beast in the Cave" by H.P. Lovecraft Quiz and Close Reading Bundle

Promote active engagement with fiction, support the development of close reading analysis skills for high school, and evaluate general reading comprehension with this bundle of resources for teaching the Gothic short story “The Beast in the Cave” by H.P. Lovecraft. Included are the following: a multiple choice, plot-based quiz; a worksheet composed of rigorous close reading questions; a craft analysis activity; the public domain narrative; and answer keys. Materials are delivered in printable Word Document and PDF formats. With these resources, students will:

• Articulate what the text states explicitly and implicitly
• Use context clues to determine the state in which the story is set
• Isolate the statement that best describes the narrator among several options
• Apply knowledge of various literary devices including onomatopoeia, oxymoron, foreshadowing,
• Isolate a false statement about a particular passage from among several truths
• Make logical inferences about the narrator’s self-image
• Define complex words as they are used in the text
• Explore how the protagonist thinks, behaves, and interacts with others
• Discern the intended effect of the author’s diction (for example, why the author used a phrase like occult manner and why the author repeatedly uses variations of the word labyrinth)
• Examine the deeper meaning behind the narrator’s use of a euphemistic phrase
• Analyze sentence structures to determine how they contribute to the reader’s experience
• Explain how the narrator becomes a dynamic character
• Justify ideas and claims with relevant textual evidence
• Write ideas with clarity, accuracy, and precision