Literary Elements
Starts out symbolizing hope, but ends up symbolizing evil
What is the pearl?
Characterize the doctor.
What is greedy, cruel, and selfish.
What does the first pearl buyer tell Kino?
What is the pearl is valueless.
What type of figurative language is shown: "The wind was at his back and the stars guided him" (70).
What is personification?
The destructive force of greed is a a potential ____________ in The Pearl
What is Theme?
What happens to Coyotito that acts as the initial conflict in the story?
What is being stung by the scorpion?
Name 3 things that Kino wishes to gain from the pearl.
What is an education for Coyotito, a rifle, new clothes, a wedding for he and Juana.
What type of figurative language is shown: "Now the dealer's hand had become a personality"(49).
What is a metaphor?
Kino wants to go here to try and sell the pearl.
Where is The Capital?
The __________ of The Pearl is often somber and serious.
What is the tone?
Describe the relationship between all the people in the brush village?
What is very close, acting as one unit, and tied to their culture.
How does Juana feel about the pearl? How does this differ from Kino?
What is Juana wants to throw it back, believes it will destroy them - Kino wants to keep it to sell it.
What type of figurative language is shown: "She froze with terror for a moment, and then her lips drew back from her teeth like a cat's lips" (56).
What is simile?
He knew the pearl would be buried in the house... "It would be a shame to have it stolen before you could sell it," the doctor said.. is an example of which literary element?
What is foreshadowing?
How did Kino change from the beginning of the novel to the end? (Be sure to mention the three ways he's described)
What is human (thinking of his family, righteous desires from pearl) to animal (not trusting anyone, acting upon instinct) to machine (not thinking, just acting)
What happens to Coyotito at the end of the novel? What caused this to happen? Be specific!
What is he is killed. Shot by the tracker while hiding in the cave. He cried and the trackers thought it was a coyote.
What TWO types of figurative language are shown: "Then from the corner of the house came a sound so soft ... the almost inaudible purr of controlled breathing" (37).
What is alliteration and onomatopoeia?
Name two example of the Songs and explain their significance.
What is to portray a mood in the writing. The songs (Song of the Family and The Song of Evil) coincide with what is going on in the plot.
This story is meant to be a metaphor. Why does Steinbeck leave the prologue incomplete and open-ended?
What is so the reader can take his/her own lesson or interpretation from the story based on his/her own life experiences?
What is the story that Juan Tomas tells Kino before he goes to town. Why does he tell it?
What is how the natives lost all their pearls in the past because they were stolen. This serves as a warning.
Kino and Juana throw away the pearl at the end of the novel. Explain the reason for this.
What is it has brought them nothing positive. Kino has accepted his fate.
What THREE type of figurative language are shown: "She sat as quiet as a stone... Her mouth was still swollen where Kino had struck her and big flies buzzed around the cut on her chin. Bust she sat as still as a sentinel" (72).
What is simile, alliteration, and onomatopoeia?
What is juxtaposition? The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.