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In Matilda, Matilda performs tricks
like putting a parrot inside the
chimney. We know she is the one
responsible, but her parents think
the house is haunted.

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When a character says the opposite
of what they really mean.

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In Romeo and Juliet, the audience
knows that Juliet takes a sleeping
potion, but the other characters
think she is dead.

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In The Book Thief, Liesel lives on
Himmel Street, which means
“Heaven Street,” but it’s really a
miserable place.

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In Beauty and the Beast, Belle tells
Gaston, the unpleasant man who is
trying to win her love, “I just don’t deserve you!”

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Othello tells the story of a man who
manipulates the relationship of two
of his friends. Iago makes
Desdemona think Othello cheated
on her, when the audience knows
that Othello really didn’t.

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When standing in front a grand
mansion, Tom says, “this place is a dump.”

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In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the
computer HAL 9000 was
designed to help the explorers
with their mission, but
eventually will not listen to the
commands of the people and
tries to destroy them.

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On a trip the the aquarium, Jada
saw the great white sharks in the
tank and said, “aww, look at the
cute fishies!”

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The doctor who was scheduled to
give the children flu shots was
home sick with the flu.

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The book The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer, Tom and his friends run
away to an island, pretending to be
pirates. The people in his hometown
believe the boys are dead and begin
planning their funerals.

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In the book Holes, Stanley is
sent to Camp Green Lake. He
imagines having fun and
waterskiing, but the camp is
actually a dry desert.

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“The Gift of the Magi” depicts a
married couple who buy each other
Christmas gifts while having little
money. The wife cuts off and sells
her hair to buy her husband a watch
chain. The husband sells his watch
to buy her a hairbrush.

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When the audience knows
something that the characters in the story do not.

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In Seedfolks, Leona drinks
goldenrod tea everyday. Her
doctors tell her that it will make her
sick and give her high blood
pressure, but she outlives all of the
doctors.

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In A Wrinkle in Time, the characters
meet creatures with strange
tentacles and no faces. The
characters are frightened of these
creatures, but the creatures turn out
to be very sophisticated and caring.

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A woman is paranoid about bugs in
her apartment and thinks they will
harm her. She buys hundreds of
dollars of products and chemical
sprays to keep the bugs away, but
the chemicals eventually poison
her, and she dies.

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In the novel Wonder, Julian and his
mother try to get Auggie kicked out
of school. It turns out the Julian is
the one who doesn’t return for the
following school year.

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Rosalind in As You Like It
disguises herself as a man to
escape from her uncle. The
audience knows she is a woman,
but other characters are fooled.

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Bill Gates, who created the
Microsoft company, uses an Apple
computer.

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In Snow White, the viewers see the
wicked stepmother curse an apple.
Snow White doesn’t know it is
cursed and eats it.

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In the movie The Incredibles, Mr.
Incredible is sued by someone who
he saved from committing suicide.

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In the movie Annie, the orphans
continuously say “we love you,
Ms. Hannigan.” Ms. Hannigan is
the orphanage director who is
very cruel and mean to them.

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The story “Once Upon a Time” tells
about a family who wants to protect themselves from the dangers of the outside world. They build a large wall with barbed wire. Their son is curious and tries to climb the wall, but gets caught in the barbs and dies.

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The slogan from The Hunger
Games, “May the odds be ever in
your favor,” is repeated throughout
the book, when really, the chances
are that all but one of the players will die.

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Keira was excited to leave school
for the weekend to relax when her
teacher gave them a homework
packet. “Awesome,” she said, “this
is exactly what I wanted.”

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In “The Cask of Amontillado,”
when Montresor first meets
Fortunato, he says, “My dear
Fortunato, you are luckily met,”
when Montresor really hates
him plans to murder him later.

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Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of
Montag, a firefighter. His job as a
firefighter actually requires him to start fires.

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In The Crucible, Elizabeth lies to
protect her husband in court, not
knowing that her husband has
already made a confession in an
earlier scene in the play.

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In the Harry Potter series,
one of the people Harry hated the
most was actually tying to help
protect him all along.

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Students watch as thunder crashes
and rain pours down outside on the
day of their field trip to the metro
park. “Look, the weather is perfect!”
says the teacher.

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In the story “The Necklace,” Madam
Loisel wants to be upper class. She
borrows an expensive necklace
from a friend and then loses it. While working to buy a replacement
necklace, she ends up becoming
more lower class than before.

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In the show NCIS, a murder takes
place in the first scene. The
audience sees the murderer, but the
show focuses on detectives trying
to solve the crime, which creates
suspense.

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After falling off of her bike and
breaking her leg, Sandra has to
wear a large cast. Fed up with
people asking her if the accident
hurt, she starts telling them, “no, it felt great.”

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Cameron picks up a dime he finds
on the playground and exclaims,
“I’m rich!”

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In The Absolutely True Diary of a
Part-Time Indian, Junior is
embarrassed that he has to wear his dad’s old suit to the dance and
thinks he’ll be teased. When he gets
to the dance, the other kids think
that his suit is cool and retro.

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In Beauty and the Beast, the
audience knows from the beginning
of the movie that The Beast is
actually a prince. Beauty does not
find out until the very end.

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In the movie Frozen, Olaf is being
chased by a scary monster, and he
calls the monster “Marshmallow”
even though the monster is not
anything like a marshmallow.

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The Pardoner in The Canterbury
Tales is a religious worker who
preaches against greed. Meanwhile, he is very greedy and tries to cheat people out of money.

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In the movie Psycho, a murderer
approaches a woman who is taking
a shower. She does not hear or see
the man coming, but the camera
focuses on him through the shower
curtain, creating suspense.

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Michael drives his car to the gym
on his way to work out. He thinks
walking would be too much effort.

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In Holes, Mr. Sir continually tells the
children that “this ain’t a Girl Scout
camp” to warn them that it will not
be fun. At the end of the story, we
learn that the camp is going to be
transformed into a girl scout camp.

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In Mean Girls, Caty gives Regina
bars meant to help people gain
weight, but she tells Regina that
they are "low-calorie.” Regina eats
them and starts gaining weight
without knowing why.

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The difference between what is
expected to happen and what
actually occurs. Often, roles and
outcomes are dramatically reversed.

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When Greg got into a car accident
on his way to work, he said, “well
this is just wonderful.”

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In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s
Stone, Hermione goes into the
bathroom, not knowing that there is
a giant mountain troll inside. The
readers knew the troll was there.

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In The Book Thief, Liesel steals
several books. However, she is one
of the only kids her age who does
not know how to read.

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In Toy Story, Buzz is convinced that
he is a real space ranger even
though everyone else knows he is just a toy.

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When her students were shouting at the top of their lungs, Ms. Smith
jokingly told them that she needed
them to speak up because she
couldn’t hear them.

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Mulan is the true story of a girl who
pretends to be an man in order to
join the military. The viewers know
she is really a woman, but she fools
the men in the army.