Figurative Language
OMM Characters
OMM Plot
Adverbs
Miscellaneous
100
The definition of simile
What is comparing to unlike things with like or as?
100
This character is large and child-like.
Who is Lennie?
100
This state is the setting of the novel.
What is California?
100
During summer vacations I usually go to camp.
What is usually?
100
"...the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones" (2). This sentence is an example of this figurative language term.
What is simile?
200
The definition of metaphor
What is an implied comparison between two unlike things?
200
This character is short, slender, and quick-witted.
Who is George?
200
This is Lennie and George's American dream.
What is have a farm, live off the fat of the land, and raise rabbits.
200
The swirling river tossed the boat wildly.
What is wildly?
200
"...he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws" (2). This is an example of this figurative language term.
What is metaphor?
300
The definition of onomatopoeia
What is words that by their sounds suggest their meaning: hiss, buzz, sizzle?
300
This character antagonizes Lennie; he is the boss's son.
Who is Curley?
300
This is what George reveals to Slim about how he treated Lennie in the past.
What is made fun of him?
300
We will meet you later at the library.
What is later?
300
"The flame craked up among the twigs and fell to work" (10). This is an example of this figurative language term.
What is personification?
400
The definition of personification
What is giving human characteristics to inanimate objects concepts, abstract ideas, or animals?
400
This character is flirtatious and self-centered; a tart
Who is Curley's wife?
400
This is what Lennie happily receives in Chapter 3.
What is a puppy?
400
Dangerously strong winds threatened the coastal villages.
What is dangerously?
400
"She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers." From the passage, the color red is an example of this.
What is symbolism?
500
The definition of imagery
What is representations in words of a vivid sensory experience?
500
This character has an old dog that he has had since the dog was a puppy.
Who is Candy?
500
These further details are disclosed about the incident in Weed from Chapter 3.
What is Lennie is accused of raping a woman?
500
Hurray! Our bus is already here!
What is already and here?
500
"Look Lennie! This here ain't no set up. I'm scared. You gonna have trouble with that Curley guy. I seen that kind before." This is an example of this figurative language term.
What is foreshadowing?
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