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The crowd was quiet. A girl whispered, “I hope it’s not Nancy,”

situational irony, you would expect wining the lottery to be a good thing.

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Kyra

"Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones."

This shows foreshadowing because in the end that tells us that they kill the people with stones.

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Tiffany

"They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed."

This is an example of dramatic irony because everyone is really "quiet" because they know someone in the village is going to die.

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Greyson

eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys.

this shows that the boys are not just playing they are making a pile of death stones for the unlucky person

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grace

—eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded

this foreshadows that they will use the rocks to hurt the lady

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Chloe

"Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones;"

This is foreshadowing that they will use the stones later on in the story in a bad way.

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Nathan

There were the lists to make up—of heads of families, heads of households in each family, members of each household in each family

this is dramatic irony because it chooses who gets stones thrown at

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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

you would expect winning the lottery to be good

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Louis N

“It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. ♦ this is the end of the book and now we know they are going to die and they have been hinting it the whole book

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Sudiksha V

Soon the men began to gather, surveying their own children, speaking of planting and rain, tractors and taxes.

This is foreshadowing because at the end of the page it says that the crops will come faster if the rain comes

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Isadora

"Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box."

this is represented as foreshadowing because mr summers wanted to change the box or in this case change the tradition and it never happened. mr summers thought that they should make a new box, or a new tradition

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Jay

“Be a good sport, Tessie,” Mrs. Delacroix called, and Mrs. Graves said, “All of us took the same chance.”

This is an example of foreshadowing because it is saying that something bad might happen

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Max

"The pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready; there were stones on the ground with the blowing scraps of paper that had come out of the box"

This is foreshadowing that they are going to kill Tessie with rocks.