The Alchemist
Literary Devices
ACC Staves I & II
ACC Staves I & III
Vocabulary
100

This is the name of the Protagonist in The Alchemist.

Who is Santiago?

100

This is The place and time in which the story takes place.

What is Setting?

100
This is the point of view that the first stave is told in.
What is 1st and 3rd person point of view?
100

This spirit takes Scrooge to see his own grave.

The Ghost of Christmas yet to come. 

100

The student did not understand the ______________ from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

What is an excerpt?

200

Pursue your personal legend. 

What is the theme of the Alchemist?

200

This type of setting is not important to the plot.

What is a background setting?

200

This Spirit takes Scrooge to various places in his past.

Who is the Ghost of Christmas Past?

200
These emerged from the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Present.

What are children?

200

What does the word Legendary mean as it is use in the following sentence: 

Charles Dickens was a legendary English Author from the 1800s.

What is celebrated/famous? 

300

This is the genre of The Alchemist.

What is Magical Realism?

300

This is the feeling created by the story.

What is Mood?

300

These represent the greed of Marley when he was alive.

What are chains?

300

This is what scrooge gives the Cratchit on Christmas day. 

What is a prize turkey?

300

This word means to urge on; incite; or stir up?

What is to instigate? 

400

This continent is where most of the Alchemist takes place.

What is Africa?

400

This term best describes a story format where a protagonist goes on an adventure that contains three stages: 

1. The protagonist leaves the ordinary world

2. The protagonist adventures into the unknown

3. The protagonist returns victorious

What is a Hero's Journey?

400

This character was Scrooge's sister. 

Who is Fan?

400

This is the type of shop that was owned by Old Joe.

What is a beetling shop?

400
This vocabulary word is a synonym for Permeable.

What is Porus?

500

This is the author of the Achemist.

Who is Paulo Coelho?

500

"The dictatorship of flies: Trujillo flies, Tacho flies" is an example of what type of literary device?

What is a Metaphor? 

500

This was the name of the man whom Scrooge worked for as a young man?

Who is Mr. Fezzwig?

500

The Ghost of Christmas yet to come turns into this at the end of Stave IV.

What is a bedpost?

500

This vocabulary word is an antonym for dishonest?

What is ethical? 
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