Who's that character
"Tell me like you done before."
Lennie
What did Lennie have in his pocket near the Salinas River at the beginning of the book?
A mouse
George telling Lennie to go hide in the brush during Chapter 1 is an example of this.
Foreshadowing
"You got no right to come in my room."
Crooks living area
Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water and wiggled his fingers so the water arose in little splashes.
Metaphor - He doesn't have paws.
“God a’mighty if I was alone I could live so easy.”
George
When Lennie accidentally killed his pup why was he so afraid?
He thought George wouldn't let him tend the rabbits.
What is a chorus and how does Slim fit this definition?
The chorus is a character in tragedies that acts as the moral conscience of the story. Slim "gets" things. He told George that he had to shoot Lennie, almost like the voice in George's head.
"Lennie, for God' sakes don't drink so much."
Salinas River
What are the 2 metaphors in the following passage: "A light of understanding broke on Lennie’s face. “They run us outa Weed,” he exploded triumphantly."
Metaphors - Light of understanding; exploded
“You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?”
Curley's Wife
How did Lennie kill Curley's Wife?
He broke her neck
Name 3 ways it is written like a play.
It is heavy on dialogue.
Each chapter stays in the scene the whole time.
Each chapter begins with a description of the scene.
It has a chorus.
It uses Aristotle's 5 elements of tragedy.
It is written in 3rd objective.
"George says I ain't to have nothing to do with you-talk to you or nothing."
The Barn
A dove’s wings whistled over the water.
Personification
"I wisht somebody'd shoot me if I got old an' a cripple."
Slim
Near the end of the book back at the Salinas River Lennie started seeing things. What did he see?
A giant rabbit and his Aunt Clara.
Define narrative closure and give 2 examples from the book.
A circular quality in a story, chapter, or scene that begins and ends the same way, but the character has changed. Examples -Crooks' chapter. Chapter 1 and 6 are at the pond and George repeats dialogue that he said exactly in both chapters.
"What the heck kind of bed you giving us, anyways?"
The Bunkhouse
Name the 2 examples of figurative language in the following passage: "The flame of the sunset lifted from the mountaintops and dusk came into the valley"
Metaphor - Flame of sunset
Personification - dusk came into the valley.
“But don’t try to put nothing over, ‘cause you can’t get away with nothing.”
The boss.
Lennie killing the puppy at the beginning of Chapter 5 is an example of foreshadowing for what in that same chapter?
Killing Curley's wife. Both had broken necks.
List Aristotle's 5 elements of tragedy
Tragic hero with a fatal flaw.
Unities of time and place.
Progresses from happiness to despair
Depicts actions of serious magnitude
Catharsis (purging of emotions) - Order is restored at the end.
"Everybody went into town," (What is the name of the town)
Name the 2 examples of figurative language in the following passage: “An’ live off the fatta the lan’,” Lennie shouted. “An’ have rabbits. Go on, George! Tell about what we’re gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it"
Live off the fatta the lan - Metaphor
Like you can hardly cut it - Simile