Characters
Places
Plot
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
Mr. Thurmer
Who is the headmaster at Pencey Prep
100
The name of the city where Holden and his family live
What is NYC.
100
Disease that kills Allie
Leukemia
100
fake
What is phony
100
Symbol of Holden's individuality and ostracism from society.
What is the red hunting hat.
200
Maurice
Who is the elevator operator at the Edmont Hotel
200
The name of the school Holden attends.
What is Pencey Prep
200
Gift Holden buys for Phoebe
What is a record
200
boring or the same
What is monotonous
200
Two symbols of Holden's fear of the transition between childhood and adulthood
What are the ducks and the museum
300
Carl Luce
Who is Holden's student advisor from Whooten who now attends Columbia
300
The name of the hotel where Holden stays in NYC.
What is the Edmont Hotel.
300
What is the topic of the essay Holden writes for Stradlater
Allie's baseball mitt
300
a concern or worry
What is a qualm
300
An element of humorous writing that tells a reader what something or someone is like using colorful adjectives and verbs.
What is amusing description
400
Ernest Morrow
Who is Holden's classmate from Pencey Prep. Holden meets his mother on the train to NYC.
400
What is the name of the night club DB used to go to that Holden visits it NYC.
Ernies
400
Holden gives them 10 dollars
Who are the nuns at Grand Central Station
400
To complain
What is to gripe
400
A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect.
What is hyperbole
500
Mr. Haas
Who is the headmaster from Elkton Hills who Holden thinks is phony.
500
What is the name of the bar where Holden dances with three different women.
Lavendar Room
500
Where Holden tells Mrs. Morrow he will be spending his summer.
What is South America.
500
Not having principles or morals
What is unscrupulous
500
Definition of Picaresque and Bildungsroman genres
What is The picaresque novel is a popular sub-genre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and depicts, in realistic and often humorous detail, the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society. The Bildungsroman is a genre of the novel which focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood. Change is thus extremely important.
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