CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CLASS 10

THE NECKLACE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Mathilde and her husband are a middle class couple who lived about 100 years ago in France. What part of the plot is this?
A
Exposition
B
climax
C
denouement
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Loisel is a hit, everyone loves her. Upon leaving she reaches for the necklace, and finds it missing. After days of searching, she and her husband decide to replace it with a one that looks identical. The replacement cost more money than they make, and it takes them ten years to pay it off.

Detailed explanation-2: -Exposition. Set in Paris, France in 1880. A young middle-class woman dreams of a lifestyle far beyond her reach. One day, her husband comes home with tickets to attend a very affluent party, and she is excited to attend, but upset that she will look dowdy.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mathilde’s husband. Monsieur Loisel is content with the small pleasures of his life but does his best to appease Mathilde’s demands and assuage her complaints. He loves Mathilde immensely but does not truly understand her, and he seems to underestimate the depth of her unhappiness.

Detailed explanation-4: -In “The Necklace, ” the climax occurs when the Madame Loisel realizes that the necklace, she borrowed from a friend is truly lost. In literature, the climax is the point where the conflict cannot get any worse; or it is the last exciting event that brings the story to a point.

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