Stem Words
Figurative Language
Characters
Of Mice and Men
Literary Terms
100
This stem word means "truth."
What is ver?
100
The two words that indicate the difference between a simile and a metaphor.
What is "like" or "as"?
100
The method by which an author creates the appearance and personality of imaginary persons and reveals their character.
What is characterization?
100
The infamous period of time in which Of Mice and Men took place.
What is the Great Depression?
100
The difference between connotation and denotation.
What is denotation is the dictionary definition of a word, and connotation is the emotional and imaginative association surrounding a word?
200
This stem word means "father."
What is pater?
200
The term that identifies the following example: The sun was hiding behind a crowd of clouds.
What is personification?
200
The character in fiction or drama who stands in direct opposition to or in conflict with the contract character.
What is the antagonist?
200
The example that Lennie is the "wise fool" of the novel.
What is an archetype?
200
The term that means the conversation between two or more people represented in writing, especially plays, novels, short stories, and narrative poems.
What is dialogue?
300
This stem word means "within."
What is intra?
300
When you tell a baseball player that he/she is a "real Babe Ruth," you are doing this.
What is alluding?
300
The point of view Of Mice and Men is told in.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
300
Curley's wife symbolizes this biblical character in the novel.
Who is Eve?
300
The highest moment of intensity and interest in a drama or story.
What is the climax?
400
This stem word means "government."
What is cracy?
400
Language referring to something that can be perceived through one or more of the senses.
What is an image?
400
The teller of a story or other narrative.
Who is the narrator?
400
The foreshadowing that causes George to make the decision to shoot Lennie at the end of the novel.
What is when Candy tells George that he regrets letting Carlson shoot Candy's dog?
400
This is the difference between mood and tone.
What is tone is set by the author and mood is how the reader feels while reading the piece?
500
This stem word means "across."
What is trans?
500
These are four different types of figurative language.
What is simile,metaphor, personification, and hyperbole. (Answers may vary)
500
The major protagonist and antagonist in Of Mice and Men.
Who are George and Curley?
500
Two major themes in Of Mice and Men.
What is Answers Vary?
500
A reoccurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation that appears in various works or throughout the same work.
What is a motif?
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