Literature Devices
What Literary Device is used in this phrase, "The flower garden was stained with rotting brown magnolia petals and iron weeds grew rank amid the purple phlox."
What is Imagery
Who are the 5 Main Characters in the Scarlet Ibis
Who are the Narrator, Doodle, Mom, Dad, and Aunt Nicey
What part of the Plot is represented by this phrase, "Doodle was just about the craziest brother a boy ever had…he was born when I was six and was, from the start, a disappointment."
What is Exposition
What did the family use to identify the bird once they found it
What is the Bird Book
What does the Color Red represent/foreshadow in the Story
What is Death and/or Tragedy
What Literary Device is used in this phrase, "The last graveyard flowers were blooming, and their smell drifted across the cotton field and through every room of our house, speaking softly the names of our dead."
What is Personification
What is the Name of the Aunt
Who is Aunt Nicey
What part of the Plot is represented by this phrase, "The rain was coming, roaring through the pines, and then, like a bursting Roman candle, a brilliant red bird shot out of the darkness."
What is Climax
What did doodle ride in before he could walk
What is Go Cart
What thing in the Story symbolizes Doodle and his vulnerability
What is Scarlet Ibis
What Literary Device is used in this phrase, "I took him by the arms and stood him up. He collapsed onto the grass like a half empty flour sack."
What is Simile
Who is the Narrator (Hint, Role in the Family)
Who is Doodle's Brother
What part of the Plot is represented by this phrase, "He lay very awkwardly, with his head thrown far back, making his vermilion neck appear unusually long and slim. His little legs, bent sharply at the knees, had never before seemed so fragile, so thin."
What is Resolution
What wood is used to build Doodle's Coffin
What is Mahogany
What does the Coffin in the Story represent/foreshadow
What is Death and/or Grief
What Literary Device is used in this phrase, "They did not know that I did it for myself; that pride, whose slave I was, spoke to me louder than all their voices."
What is Personification
What is Doodle's Real Name
Who is William Armstrong
What part of plot is represented by this phrase, "I prepared a development program for him, unknown to Mama and Daddy, of course. I would teach him to run, to swim, to climb trees, and to fight."
What is Rising Action
What is the name of the Swamp the Narrator and Doodle spend their time at
What is Old Woman Swamp
What represents hope/accomplishment for the future in the Story. (Hint, this isn't a Person or a Thing)
What is Old Woman Swamp
What Literary Device is used in this phrase, "I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a sees that bears two vines, life and death."
What is Metaphor or Oxymoron
What is the name of the President in the Story
Who is President Wilson
What part of the Plot is represented by this phrase, "I began to weep, and the tear-blurred vision in red before me looked very familiar."
What is Falling Action
How old was the Narrator when Doodle was born
What is 6 years old
What does the Go Cart represent in the Story
Doodle's Limitations