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The author Shirley Jackson, uses imagery to depict a peaceful society. However, the use of imagery is used to hide the true plot of the story from the audience (the stoning). "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."(Shirley 1). With the author starting with this quote, the reader accumulates a false sense of security as they are completely clueless from the true meaning of the lottery.

The reader accumulates a false sense of security with the peaceful scenery with the flowers that were "blossoming profusely" and the "richly green" grass. The mystery of the lottery has readers becoming anxious when the author writes "he people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions: most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around."(Shirley 4) This quote makes reader very anxious as this quote has an eerie tone to it as the people of the town know what's going on but you as the reader are completely clueless which makes the reader anxious.

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In "The Lottery", author Shirley Jackson displays strong usage of the literary method of suspense in order to keep the reader hooked and help build up the plot towards the climax. As the lottery is commencing, its evident that people are getting more tense as time goes on, such as when each family is choosing who to draw for them. "He blinked his eyes nervously and ducked his head," (Jackson 4) describes young Jack as he owns up to be his family's man, evidently nervous. A tad later, as families are greeting one another, it is stated that, "They grinned at one another humorlessly and nervously." (Jackson 4), displaying how the tensions continue to rise throughout the families and everyone is becoming more nervous. Once it got to the name drawing, it was described that, "there were men holding the small folded papers in their large hand, turning them over and over nervously." (Jackson 5) adding onto the fact that everyone has been increasingly getting nervous. This display of suspense is great, as it truly makes the reader wonder what's actually going on and why are all of the families here for tradition, and still are vehemently nervous?

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In "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson uses foreshadowing and imagery to build the suspense throughout this short story. She uses imagery to describe a nice summer day in a beautiful and calm town, "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green" (Jackson 1) which gives us a mental picture of a hot, sunny day. Now knowing the ending, it makes the town seem a little bit disturbing. She also uses foreshadowing, "Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones" (Jackson 2). As we read about how these kids gather rocks, this strikes interest in the readers because there is no connection or correlation between a lottery and stones. In the end, Tessie Hutchinson was the winner of the lottery and the readers expect her to win a prize of some sort, but she ends up getting beaten by stones. Both imagery and foreshadowing play a role throughout the entire story to tie it together.

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The author of "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson, utilizes different literary methods to provide suspense and curiosity throughout the story. One Literary term concentrated is repetition. Jackson subtly integrates recurring ideas and objects to provide a possible foreshadowing and underlying importance of the mentioned idea. A specific example of this is the stones. Mentioned multiple times in the story, it presents a hidden significance that will later connect with the ending. They are mentioned first when the narrator states, "Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boy soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones" (Jackson 1), then again when describing the setting and reference of the location of the fathers in comparison to the stones when saying, "They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner" (Jackson 1), providing the aspect of repetition. Through this implication of the idea of stones in the story, the reader can infer the importance of a commonly disregarded object.

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In "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson uses imagery to build suspense throughout the short story. As the town members are gathering around before the lottery selections, Jackson describes them as "quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around" (4) to show their anxiety of whether or not they got selected. This quote builds suspense as the people are to shown be worried prior to taking their slip. The author also gives the reader an image of the crowd once the selections were made, as many men throughout the crowd were "holding the small folded papers in their large hand, turning them over and over nervously" (5). This quote gives the reader an idea of how tense the men with slips of paper felt prior to seeing if they had been selected, and effectively brings attention to those who remained. By using vivid descriptions of the scenes around the lottery, suspense is built up until the Hutchinson family was selected, and one member would have to face the inevitable consequences that ensued shortly after.

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In "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson uses foreshadowing and suspense to increase the readers suspicions and curiosity about the towns lottery. As the community gathered for the town lottery, everyone started collecting like a child named Bobby Martin who "stuffed his pocket full of stones" (1). The correlation between stones and a lottery is not obvious, which strikes curiosity in the readers mind. But, the author's also gives the details about the stones in the beginning of the story to foreshadow their importance at the end. "Mrs. Hutchinson came hurriedly along the path to the square, her sweater thrown over her shoulders, and slid into place in the back of the crowd" (3). In addition to gaining the readers curiosity with the stones, the author brings attention to a lady named Tessie Hutchinson, who evidently was late to the lottery. As the story concludes, the reader discovers that Tessie is in fact the winner of the lottery, but they soon come to find that she is a now a loser. Tessie was actually killed by the stones for being the lottery winner, which shows how the author used foreshadowing to connect the story as a whole

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The author uses symbolism to create suspense.  The author write, "when Mr. Summers said, 'Some of you fellows want to give me a hand? There was a hesitation before two men, Mr. Martin and his oldest son Baxter, came forward to hold the box steady on the stool while Mr. Summers stirred up the papers inside it"(Jackson pg 2). The black box is a symbol for fear. It is a symbol of fear because the villagers know what the box is being used for and do not have a good feeling about it. The villagers are hesitant to help hold the box because this is the box where people choose the paper that decides whether or not they get to live. Everyone is fearful that they will be the one chosen, which leads to them being afraid of the box.The readers do not understand why the villagers are afraid of the box at this point of the story, so this helps build the suspense because it causes the readers to question why the villagers were so afraid of a box.

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Shirley Jackson uses imagery to describe the black box to foreshadow something unpleasant to happen. Shirley states "The black box grew shabbier each year by now it was no longer completely black but splintered badly along one side to show the original wood color, and in some places faded or stained"(Shirley 2). She describes the box using allusion how the box grew shabbier and also how its completely black and had splinters. This foreshadows a dark event to happen due to the box's state. Usually, the shabby wood could mean that it has been used for a long time now and the color black could represent death. Also, Shirley shows how the villagers are scared of the black box and how fear runs through them as they put their slips which foreshadows something bad will happen.

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Shirley Jackson uses literary terms such as imagery to build suspense. She does this by describing the village as happy and innocent. Shirley starts off "The Lottery" by stating, "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green" (Jackson 1). In reality, this small village has a deeper meaning to it. There is a black mysterious box that is apart of this drawing they call the lottery. Usually you expect a lottery winner to win something benefiting but in this village the winner get stoned. Even the villagers know the consequence of winning and it is shown "when [Mr. Summers] arrived in the square, carrying the black wooden box, there was a murmur of conversation among the villagers" (Jackson 2). The murmuring shows the citizens know what happens to the winners of the lottery and it is normal to them.

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Shirley Jackson uses imagery to describe the village as a quiet beautiful place where daily life is quaint and uneventful, describing one June morning as "clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green" (Jackson pg.1)
However, Shirley Jackson doesn't mention the dark tradition that compromises the beauty of such a small lush village, known as, the "lottery". When the author does introduce the lottery, she foreshadows its evil by providing a dark description of the box used. to carry out the lottery, " The black box grew shabbier each year by now it was no longer completely black but splintered badly along one side to show the original wood color, and in some places faded or stained."(Jackson pg 2)
From this foreshadowing, the reader can infer the type of grim activities it is used to carry out. The fear amongst the villagers also foreshadows the consequence of winning the lottery, they were " quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around." (Jackson pg 4) .Shirley Jackson uses the box as a symbol of death to help foreshadow the darkness of the lottery.

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Shirley Jackson uses literary devices to build suspense by using imagery and to describe the lottery indirectly. When waiting for the papers to finish being drawn, some of the townspeople start talking to each other: from the story " 'Some places have already quit lotteries.' Mrs. Adams said.

'Nothing but trouble in that,' Old Man Warner said stoutly. 'Pack of young fools'"(Jackson 5). Stoutly is used to lend credibility to Old Man Warner; it means that he said the words strongly and convincingly. Even using "Old Man" to describe Warner makes him seem more reliable because he is more experienced. Old Man Warner does not actually say the lottery is important, but we can see that he believes so, making us wonder further what the lottery is, and what makes it so important, and why someone who has seen so many lotteries continues to believe in their importance.

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In the Lottery, by Shirley Jackson literary terms are used to help show the major problems in the town. In the quote “ and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them,” personification is used. The quote is used to show that something that wasn’t very good was about to happen and they wanted to build suspense. Following this quote was a quote about kids having fun. This also shows how the lottery has become apart of their life and they are accustomed to it.

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In "The Lottery" the author, Shirley Jackson, uses imagery and the fact that the reader doesn't know whats going on to build suspense in the story. All throughout the lottery people seemed almost nervous to go up and pick a paper from the infamous black box. There was a quiet suspense when, "The tall boy came awkwardly through the crowd. Someone said, 'Don't be nervous, Jack,' and Mr. Summers said, 'Take your time, son.'"(Jackson 6). The hesitance of Jack and the warning comments of the people he passes in the crowd makes the reader rethink what the box may represent or contain. The final reveal of what the lottery represented was revealed very well because of the quick change of tone from the characters, when Tessie went from calm and nervous to shouting, "It wasn`t fair!" (Jackson 6). Shirley Jackson used the fact that the reader was oblivious to the events happening in the story and the tone of the characters to build suspense in the story.

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Shirley Jackson uses foreshadowing to give hints in what will happen later in the story. Jackson writes, "School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them". While the author is talking about students coming back to school, it can be thought that she is also setting the mood of the story. The author is trying to hint at this through the readers emotions rather than their logic.

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The author Shirley Jackson, uses imagery to depict a utopian/peaceful society. However, the use of imagery is used to hide the true plot of the story from the audience (the stoning). "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."(Shirley 1). With the author starting with this quote, the reader accumulates a false sense of security as they are completely clueless from the true meaning of the lottery.

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In "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson uses imagery to build suspense throughout the short story. As the town members are gathering around before the lottery selections, Jackson describes them as "quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around" (4) to show their anxiety of whether or not they got selected. This quote builds suspense as the people are to shown be worried prior to taking their slip. The author also gives the reader an image of the crowd once the selections were made, as all the men throughout the crowd were "holding the small folded papers in their large hand, turning them over and over nervously" (5).

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Shirley Jackson utilizes foreshadowing in order to build suspense in her short story. A prime example of this is when Jackson singles out Tessie Hutchinson's character. This occurs when Tessie is late, "Here comes your, Missus, Hutchinson," and "Bill, she made it after all"(Jackson 3). This instance draws the readers attention to Mrs. Hutchinson's character and thus foreshadows her later demise. Furthermore by including this Jackson builds suspense and subtly hints towards future events involving Tessie's character. Finally, the author uses this building in suspense to create a feeling that something bad will happen

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In this short story, Shirley Jackson uses several literary terms in her story in order to build suspense and foreshadow what will happen later in the story. As she starts the story, she describes the town using imagery, " The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green." Her use of peaceful and rich vocabulary creates a sense of false security for the reader. This builds suspense because as the story progresses, the reader begins to understand that the tone of the passage is not as peaceful as they thought it was originally. Jackson also describes the activities of the children prior to the lottery, " Bobby and Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix-- the villagers pronounced this name "Dellacroy"--eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys." Her description of their gathering of the stones does not give away much, but it foreshadows that the stones will be some important part of the story. Eventually, the villagers grab the stones and hurl them at Tessie, the loser of the lottery.

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Shirley Jackson uses literary terms like imagery to foreshadow the outcome of the "The Lottery". There aren't a lot of suspenseful moments in the story, so the pieces of imagery mostly serve as hidden messages.
An example of imagery is the quote, "clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green" (Page 1). It describes the morning as positive, which could foreshadow a change in the positivity throughout the day. Another example is when the author describes how the boys are making a pile of rocks, "eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys" (Page 1). Shirley Jackson uses this bit of imagery to highlight something seemingly small that will come to play later in the story. The fact that it doesn't initially come off as significant might cause it to be overlooked.

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Shirley Jackson includes certain literary terms, such as imagery, to build suspense in her short story, "The Lottery." She describes the moment where everyone opens their slips of paper. "For a minute, no one moved, and then all the slips of paper opened" (Jackson 6). The pause before the papers are opened is a form of imagery because the audience can feel the silence of "no one moving" and the tension that everyone has, waiting to open the slips of paper. When Jackson describes all the slips the audience can imagine what this sounds and feels like: every piece of paper being opened at the same time makes a crackling sound and the people's eagerness to see what is written on their piece of paper. These examples build suspense for the audience because the  imagery allows us to place ourselves into the story and feel anxious to find out what is on the paper.

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The author uses imagery to build suspense in the story. As the people of the town were gathering together for the lottery, "Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones" (Jackson 1). Jackson alludes to the ending of the story by describing visually of what the children were doing before the start of the lottery. The description of the stones being collected before the start of the lottery foreshadows what happens to the chosen person, which is being stoned.

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"The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions: most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around (pg 4)."

Through this quote, some deeper meaning is shown by strong imagery. The first portion, "the people had done it so many times," directly shows the peoples' normalization of this eerie event. Secondly, "most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around." This slightly contradicts the previous sentence. As a group of people they find the lottery beneficial towards their harvest and town though, as individual people they're experiencing lots of fear. Each person is worried for their own life seen from, "wetting their lips" and "not looking around." These choice of words show how tense and nervous everyone is for themselves. Overall, this quote explains the town residents' feelings. They agree that the lottery is efficient way of the town, yet each individual person still worries for their life. This helps build suspense and show deeper characterization of the people.

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Shirley Jackson uses imagery to describe the town as any other normal town. Shirley writes, "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank..." (Jackson 1). The way Shirley describes the summer day makes the reader remember how a summer day is like where they live. School is out, the sun is out, and everyone is out and about. This also helps put a strong, clear image in the readers head about how the town looks like. Now knowing the ending, describing the town as such a normal place makes the story even more creepy. Having the image of a beautiful happy town builds up suspense because not everything is at it seems. This is comparable with cult towns that have sprung up in the U.S. They seem like a nice normal town until you start learning the deep and dark secrets that lurk within.

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Shirley Jackson uses imagery to help better explain the long existence of the box used in the lottery "The black box grew shabbier each year: by now it was no longer completely black but splintered badly along one side to show the original wood color, and in some places faded or stained."(paragraph 5). In this this quote Jackson helps to show how old and warn down the box is. This also helps to represent how long the lottery has been occurring. With showing  how old the box is and how long the lottery has been going on it helps to enhance the point that this lottery and what occurs as a result of the lottery, is now categorized as normal for them. That these children who were born into this don' know anything different. So using a description of how the box is old and tainted helps to represent how long the lottery has been occurring and how it has become normalized for them.

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Shirley Jackson uses imagery to normalize the town at the start of her story. She describes the town as, "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green,"(Jackson 1). The words "fresh warmth of a full summer day" gives off the sense of peace and harmony, so much that when readers get to the last part, they become shocked at what is happening. When she talks about the flowers, she is writing about how  it is a new day, and makes the reader think that the story will be a positive one rather than a dark story.

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Shirley Jackson uses literacy terms to build suspense in the story, “The Lottery”, by starting off the story with a bright and peaceful paragraph and ending with a dark and bad end. She uses the beginning to trick the reader into thinking that the village is a nice and peaceful looking town, with the quote “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the village began to gather in the square...”(pg. 1). The imagery of the grass and nature shows the reader that the town, in the outside, is normal and good. Although, at the ending quote, it shows that it is actually a horrible town, on the inside: “Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot on it, the black spot Mr. Summers had made the night before with the heavy pencil in the coal company office. Bill Hutchinson held it up, and there was a stir in the crowd. ‘All right, folks.’ Mr. Summers said. ‘Let’s finish quickly…’”(pg. 8). The story uses literacy terms, like Imagery, to build suspense, along with elude the reader into thinking the story is nice when it really is evil.

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