Literary Devices
GEORGE: Oh--hello Mrs. Younger
MAMA: Hello, George, how are you feeling?
GEORGE: Fine--fine, how are you?
What is Dialogue?
Punctual as a star
What is a Simile?
Gatsby is hoping to achieve the ___.
What is American Dream?
Reason Mama slaps Beneatha.
What is her denial of God?
She waits another second and then starts to go into the bedroom, but is apparently satisfied that her husband has begun to get up.
What are Stage Directions?
What is Personification?
Acts "high class" and looks down on others when in New York.
Who is Myrtle Wilson?
Beneatha, wearing her Nigerian robe and headdress, turns off Ruth's music because it is...
What is Assimilationist Junk?
Produced in 1959, the play presaged the revolution in black and women's consciousness that exploded in the years following the playwright's death in 1965...
What is Historical Context?
Zip, Zap, Pow!
What is Onomatopoeia?
Identify the Symbolism:
She dressed in white and had a little white roadster.
What is innocence?
When Mama gives Walter responsibility of the remaining money, she is showing her...
What is willingness to believe in him?
The lights dim down.
What is Staging?
Chaos is a ladder.
What is a Metaphor?
In The Great Gatsby, weather represents this.
What is emotion?
Karl Lindner's attitude when he first speaks to the Youngers.
What is soothing but determined?
Mama to Ruth, "You aiming to iron all them things?"
What is Dialect?
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
What is Alliteration?
In the beginning of the novel, Nick is hopeful and optimistic; by the end, he is angry and agitated, feeling this.
What is disgust at the selfishness of society?
Ruth's word slubborn means
What is Sloppy & Stubborn?