The memory of a laughing crowd with “green faces and protruding fangs” elicits a full-body shiver from the protagonist of this story. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Nikolai Gogol-inspired story by Lu Xun (“shun”). This story’s protagonist reads a history book featuring the words “Benevolence,” “Righteousness,” and “Morality” as instead repeating the phrase “Eat people!”
ANSWER: “Diary of a Madman” [or “A Madman’s Diary”; or “Kuángrén Rìjì”]
[10e] “Diary of a Madman” makes use of this literary device by introducing the premise of the narrative with an introductory passage. Scheherazade’s opening narration functions as one of these devices in Arabian Nights.
ANSWER: frame story [or frame narrative; or frame tale; or sandwich narrative; or intercalation; or story within a story]
[10h] The narrator of Lu Xun’s “Diary of a Madman” believes that one of these animals gives him a dirty look because it is in on the plot to eat him, while Gogol’s madman believes that two of these animals are conversing in secret.
ANSWER: dogs
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