Figurative Language and the Novel
Chapter one and six both begin with the use of this common type of imagery where we can see the setting.
What is visual imagery?
Imagery including "bridges," "filaments," and "ductile anchors" suggest one of the poem's themes is this "C" word.
What is connection?
"Like a puma" uses animal imagery and this type of comparison also known as a weak metaphor.
What is a simile?
The poem is written by a farmer speaking to a mouse whose hibernation home he has _______.
What is destroyed (or similar answers)?
What is "floozy?"
This card game is an ominous, symbol used to foreshadow that the book ends as it begins, with Lennie and George running away.
What is solitaire?
*Daily Double" The name of the town where the book takes place shares the same "lonely" word root as the card game.
Repetition of "ing" and "ed" ends makes words in this poem "go in the same direction," an example of this "geometric" two-word phrase "borrowed" for English class.
What is parallel structure?
The title word "sonnet" implies that this is a ____ poem.
What is love?
In the line, "The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry," "awry" means ________.
What is "not as planned" (or similar answers)?
Of "crestfallen," "brusquely," and "pantomime," an adjective used to describe the downtrodden Candy and George when they realize the dream won't happen.
What is "crestfallen?"
Because we know the choices below are not meant, they all use ______ ______.
A) Lennie telling Curley’s wife that Curly got his hand caught in a machine.
B) George says that Curely’s wife “sure is hiding it” when he really means she’s flirting around the men.
C) Crooks telling Candy he’s not interested in joining the dream ranch.
What is verbal irony?
*Daily Double*: Mr. B. knows the answers to all of these questions, but by feigning not knowing the answers, he is employing this "ancient Greek" form of irony.
Repetition in "vacant" and "vast" uses this form of repetition by repeating the "V" sound.
What is alliteration?
Of the four choices below, the best choice for the tone (author's feelings) in the poem.
a. obsessive b. sympathetic c. ephemeral d. Melancholy
What is obsessive (A)?
"Oft" would be synonymous with *this word* today.
What is "often?"
Of "welter-weight," "pugnacious," and "monotonous," the one that does not have anything directly to do with fighting or boxing.
What is "monotonous?"
Any object, idea, symbol, or theme that recurs enough to suggest its deeper importance.
What is a motif?
*Toss Up* Name one frequently recurring motif in the novel.
The speaker talking to his soul is an example of this "A" figurative language.
What is apostrophe?
Because Quitratue is volcanic, it uses this type of sense imagery, also seen in the phrase "hot heart."
What is tactile (touch) imagery?
Of the choices below, the one that shows the advantage mice have because they can only worry about the present.
a. “That flimsy heap of leaves and stibble” b. “Still friend, you’re blessed compared with / me c. “I’m truly sorry Man’s Dominion / has broken Nature’s social union,” d. “But, oh, I backwards cast my eye.”
What is "D?"
What is mollify?
Those who claim the novella is a Cain and Abel tale are making a Biblical reference, or a_________.
What is allusion?
Repetition of the first word in successive lines and stanzas, as in the use of "Til" twice.
What is anaphora?
"Sniffing the twilight" combines _____ imagery and _____ imagery, creating s____________.
What is visual and olfactory; synesthesia?
Which two men in the novel would be the least likely to be described as "surrounded by measureless oceans of space?"
Who are George and Lennie?
George, knowing what the dastardly or ________ Curley will do, is forced to e_________ Lennie by the river.
What is reprehensible, euthanize?