What is the name of the protagonist in The Stranger?
Who is Meursault?
100
The Stranger takes place in Algeria during the 1940's.
What is setting?
100
The main idea of the literary work
What is theme?
100
"She dealt with moral problems as a cleaver deals with meat."
What is simile?
100
"It went zip when it moved and bop when it stopped,
And whirr when it stood still.
I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will."
What is onomatopoeia?
200
This is the advice that the nurse gives the protagonist in the first chapter of The Stranger.
What is "There is no way out"?
200
This word refers to the way the author or character feels.
What is tone?
200
Two characters that mirror each other
What are foils?
200
"A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind."
What is metaphor?
200
"A whole morning could be spent just getting the laces on your sneakers right since all sneakers in the 1950's had more than seven dozen lace holes and the laces were fourteen feet long. Each morning, you would jump out of bed to find that the laces had somehow become four feet longer on one side of the shoe than the other."
What is hyperbole?
300
Raymond Cintes claims that this is his occupation.
What is a wharehouse guard?
300
Painting a picture with words.
What is imagery?
300
This type of irony refers to when a character says one thing and means something else.
What is verbal irony?
300
“A small, short war that rarely extended throughout more than .02% of the galaxy and .01% by stellar population. … the galaxy’s elder civilisations rate the Idiran-Culture war as … one of those singularly interesting Events they see so rarely these days.”
What is understatement?
300
"Joy’s trick is to supply
Dry lips with what can cool and slake,
Leaving them dumbstruck also with an ache
Nothing can satisfy."
What is personification?
400
After Meursault's trial, another man is on trial for this crime.
What is parricide?
400
This point of view uses the pronoun "you."
What is second person?
400
When the weather reflects the mood
What is pathetic fallacy?
400
"Joy’s trick is to supply
Dry lips with what can cool and slake,
Leaving them dumbstruck also with an ache
Nothing can satisfy."
What is personification?
400
"Kindergarten was a Garden of Eden, where everything was perfect." (Provide two types of figurative language).
What is metaphor and allusion?
500
The magistrate gives Meursault this nickname.
What is Monsieur Antichrist?
500
"I could smell the darkness" is an example of this term.
What is idiom?
500
This type of irony refers to when the audience knows what to expect but the characters are surprised.
What is dramatic irony?
500
"Murder with knives is very messy, and I suggest not taking a stab at it."
What is pun?
500
“I worked the graveyard shift with old people, which was really demoralizing, because the old people didn’t have a chance of ever getting out.”