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- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.time and place the story takes place
Ex. Salinas River, 1930s; "A few miles south of Soledad."settingplotimageryexposition - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.comparing two things using like or as
Ex. "You're like a kid Lennie."hyperboleironymetaphorsimile - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.language or way of speech of a particular region of the country
Ex. "It wasn't no good to pet."dialoguecharacterizationcommunicationdialect - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.the author directly tells the reader what the character is like
Ex. "He stepped short, quick steps, of a fat legged man."indirect characterizationpointed characterizationdirect characterizationstraight characterization - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.the author gives clues about a character by describing what a character looks like, does, and says, as well as how other characters react to them
Ex. "Crooks scowled, but Lennie's disarming smile defeated him. Come on in and set a while."direct characterizationindirect characterizationforward characterizationround characterization - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.the author directly tells the reader what the character is like
Ex. "He stepped short, quick steps, of a fat legged man."indirect characterizationpointed characterizationforward characterizationdirect characterization - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what is expected
Ex. Crooks lets Lennie in his room.ironysituational ironyverbal ironyforeshadowing - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.a person says one thing and means another (sarcasm)
Ex. "Sure, said Crooks. And a manure pile under the window. Sure, it's swell."situational ironydialogueverbal ironydramatic irony - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.the audience knows something that the characters do not know
Ex. When Lennie walks in Crooks's room. (Lennie does not know that he is unwanted in there.)situational ironydramatic ironydramaverbal irony - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.descriptive words that appeal to the five senses
Ex. "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas river drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."adjectivessensory wordsimageryverbs - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.hints that something is going to happen in the story
Ex. George tells Lennie in the opening chapter that if he gets into trouble to go back and hide in the brush by the river.hintingteasingforeshadowingspoiler alerts - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.characters, objects, or events that have an abstract, or figurative meaning (stands for something else)
Ex. George and Lennie's dream represents their freedom and wealth.imagessymbolismsimilepersonification - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.adding human characteristics to non-living objects
Ex. "the afternoon sun sliced through the cracks of barn walls"hyperbolesymbolismimagerypersonification - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.the main character
Ex. Lennie and George because they are the main people in the story.lead actorantagonistMVPprotagonist - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.opposing character to the main character
Ex. Curley/Curley's wifeantagonistthe oppositionprotagonistthe bad guy - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.struggle between opposing forces
Ex. Lennie vs. Curley; Lennie vs. George; Candy vs. himself; Ranch men vs. societyfightfeudconflictargument - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.it gives the perspective from which a literary work is told.point of viewliterary lensbackgroundauthor
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The narrator (the voice that is telling the story) is a character who is part of the action and uses the first-person pronouns I, me, and my. The reader sees everything through this character's eyes.second person point of viewthird person point of viewfirst person point of viewfourth person point of view
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The narrator is someone outside the action, rather than a character.first person point of viewsecond person point of viewthird person point of viewthird person onmniscient
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.the narrator is an all-knowing observer who can relate what every character thinks and feelsomniscient third person point of viewthird person point of viewsecond person point of viewfirst person point of view