Literary Techniques
This is the time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
This is the name of Macbeth's best friend, whom he has killed and later haunts him.
Who is Banquo?
This relative of Holden's dies before the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, starts.
Who is Holden's brother, Allie?
"This weekend was a roller coaster." is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
The author of the play Macbeth.
Who is William Shakespeare?
What is an object that represents a concept?
What is a symbol?
This is the name of the head nurse in the mental institution in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Who is Nurse Ratched?
This character kills Macbeth at the end of the play.
Who is Macduff?
"He is as salty as a pretzel." is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
This is the author of The Catcher in the Rye.
Who is J.D. Salinger?
These are the attitudes and behaviors of a character in a story.
What is characterization?
She is the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Who is Scout (or Jean Louise)?
When this character dies in The Outsiders, Dally loses control and runs from the room in a frenzy.
Who is Johnny?
"The fire swallowed the entire forest." is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
This is the author of The Outsiders.
Who is S.E. Hinton?
This is when an author provides a hint about something that will happen in the future of a story.
Katniss from The Hunger Games bonded with this character during the hunger games because she was innocent and reminded her of her sister
Who is Rue?
In To Kill a Mockingbird, this character is shot 17 times while trying to escape from jail.
Who is Tom Robinson?
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep." is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is imagery?
The author of To Kill a Mockingbird's last name is Lee, but this is her first name.
What is Harper?
This is when the opposite of what you expect happens in a story.
What is irony?
This character took on an adult role in his family in The Outsiders and gave up a college scholarship in order to take care of his brothers.
This character ends McMurphy's suffering by suffocating him with a pillow in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Who is Chief Bromden?
What is hyperbole?
This is the author of The Hunger Games.