Major Characters
This character is the oldest of the three ladies, and she takes a long time to speak.
Who is Mrs. Which?
What are 2 of Meg's faults that she used as strengths?
What is stubbornness, impatience, tenacity, quick to anger, independence, etc.?
What figurative language is this?
"Her pencil flew over her paper."
-simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, idiom
What is personification?
What is the overall message in the story/lesson learned through characters' actions?
Charles Wallace has some unexplainable abilities. Name two
What is to get into the minds of Mrs. Murry & Meg and is unusually smart for a 5 year old?
The fault that led to Charles Wallace getting caught up in It.
What is pride/arrogance?
What is IT's weakness?
What is being refused/resisted?
What figurative language is this?
"... and out came women like a row of paper dolls."
-simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, idiom
What is simile?
Explain this theme from the book:
The power of love
What is love is the most powerful thing in the universe and can triumph over evil
What is the most important purpose the Happy Medium served in the book?
What is to show the children Earth from a different perspective as it's being taken over by the Black Thing?
How does Meg defeat IT and rescue Charles Wallace?
What is with love?
How do the Mrs. W's describe tessering?
What is by showing the shortcut an ant could take traveling along the hem of Mrs. Whatsit's skirt (a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points)?
What does Mrs. Whatsit mean when she uses the metaphor that life is a sonnet?
What is just like a sonnet, there is a strict form to life and certain things that must be done in specific ways, but there is freedom in what the sonnet contains, just like there's freedom to make your own decisions in life.
Nonconformity
What is not being the same as everyone else, being who you are, embracing individuality, etc.
Charles Wallace tells Calvin that Mrs. Murry "...is not one of us." What does Charles mean?
What is only Charles & Calvin are a "sport" and have supernatural abilities?
The feeling that Meg felt when her father left Charles on Camazotz
What is betrayal, disloyalty, etc.?
Name three of Earth's past fighters of evil
Who are Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Jesus, Michelangelo, Bach, Beethoven, etc.
What figurative language is this?
"A delinquent, that's what I am!"
-simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, idiom
What is a hyperbole?
Explain this theme from the book:
Knowing vs. Understanding
What is knowing the answer doesn't mean you understand it/sometimes you have to be okay with only knowing because some things are impossible for humans to fully understand
After Charles Wallace looks into the Man's red eyes, he begins to excitedly eat the food the Man originally offered all three of the children. Why is this confusing?
What is because Charles was the only one who originally thought the food was tasteless and disgusting?
How does Calvin describe the Mrs. W's to Aunt Beast?
What is he calls them Guardian Angels?
What mistake did Mrs. Which make that made Mrs. Who and Mrs. Whatsit laugh hysterically?
What is accidentally tessering them to a 2D planet?
What figurative language is this?
"... you're supposed to be dumb in school, always getting called on the carpet..."
-simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, idiom
What is idiom?
Explain this theme from the book:
The dangers of intelligence without emotion (IT)
What is when IT only has power and intelligence (IT is literally a giant human brain) IT thinks it's unstoppable, but it lacks human emotion and understanding which makes IT able to senselessly control others, but also leaves it incredibly vulnerable to its weaknesses- love & resistance.