Characterization
Conflict
Setting
Theme
Potpourri
100
His name indicates a temper that runs hot and cold.
Who is Mercutio?
100
This poor couple sacrificed their greatest treasures to buy each other Christmas gifts.
Who are Jim and Della?
100
This story takes place on Ship-trap Island.
What is "The Most Dangerous Game?"
100
This story teaches us that "it's the thought that counts."
What is "The Gift of the Magi."
100
This character tells Romeo, "Thou art a villain."
Who is Mercutio?
200
This character worries that she is too quickly won, and should have been more coy with her new love.
Who is Juliet?
200
His conflicts were mainly internal.
Who is Holden? OR Who is Eric "King-Pin" Cavalli?
200
This work's recurring "big idea" of loneliness is a direct result of the setting in which it takes place.
What is Of Mice and Men?
200
This character learns that she should have appreciated what she had when she had it, rather than always wanting more money and a better lifestyle.
Who is Mme. Loisel?
200
A metaphor for Holden's confusion about the world and his place in it.
The Central Park lagoon.
300
We are not sure whether this character has inapporpriate intentions; as it turns out, Holden's not exactly sure, either.
Who is Mr. Antolini?
300
This character cried when he discovered no one else was willing to stand up for "race pride."
Who is Logan?
300
The lack of a specific time period lends this story an eerie, mysterious quality.
What is "The Lottery?"
300
This character's experiences tell us that one needs to have integrity in life and in work.
Who Eric "King-Pin" Cavalli?
300
This celebrated short story author wrote "The Gift of the Magi."
Who is O. Henry?
400
She keeps all her kings in the back row.
Who is Jane?
400
The conflict in this work dealt with people's refusal to question tradition.
What is "The Lottery?"
400
Both of these texts' "mental spaces" include segregation and the Great Depression.
What are Of Mice and Men and "Trouble with the Angels."
400
This specific incident teaches Holden that everyone must grow up.
What is Phoebe reaching for the golden ring on the carousel?
400
They are Cossacks.
Who are Ivan and Zaroff.
500
He is a "beast at bay."
Who is Rainsford?
500
All of the conflicts in this work stem from a larger conflict of which no one seems to know the origin.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
500
This work's setting is particularly significant in regards to parent/children relationships and ideas of marriage.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
500
A theme for this famous work is "even the best-laid plans sometimes do not come to fruition."
What is Of Mice and Men?
500
This author did not grant interviews.
Who is J.D. Salinger?
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