The island where the main character spends her summer.
What is Puerto Rico?
100
This little girl was described as shy and smart.
Who is Marguerite?
100
This was the type of narration used.
What is 1st person?
100
A 71 year old woman who has a dark secret.
Who is Miss Adela Strangeworth?
200
This device gives the attributes of an animate object to an inanimate object.
What is personification?
200
“I put a pillow over my head and decided to commit suicide by sweating to death.” This sentence has an example of this literary device.
What is a hyperbole?
200
“... and the white, freshly done curtains pushed against themselves and against the wind.” This sentence has an example of this literary device.
What is personification?
200
The story takes place during this century.
What is the 20th century?
200
Miss Strangeworth’s most prized possession.
What is her rosebush?
300
A written imitation of a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
“ I had to call my mother and tell her that I changed my mind about the convent.” This sentence shows this point in the plot of the story.
What is the climax?
300
The story took place during this season.
What is summer?
300
The story takes place on this island.
What is Cape Breton Island?
300
The age of Helen Crane’s baby.
What is six months?
400
An actor’s speech that is directed to the audience rather than other characters.
What is aside?
400
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"Of course there was no AC” This sentence has an example of this literary device.
What is allusion?
400
“ As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lessons in living.” This sentence depicts this plot point in the story.
What is the trigger incident?
400
This character has a red beard and is described as strong.
Who is Neil?
400
The name of the street Miss Strangeworth walks down in the story.
What is Main Street?
500
A type of irony where the actions in a story have an opposite effect on what was expected.
What is situational irony?
500
“Did I say hot?” This sentence shows an example of this literary device.
What is sarcasm?
500
The story took place in this decade. (Hint: The Lemonade is in the 'icebox'.)
What is the 1930's?
500
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“But tonight my father says to me 'We would like you to stay up with us a while,' and so I stay quietly with the older members of my family.” This sentence depicts this point in the plot.
What is the climax?
500
The name of the clerk who assists Miss Strangeworth in her shopping.