Vocabulary
What are alternative terms for "crippled" and "invalid" (we don't use these anymore).
Handicapped, disabled, special needs.
What tool was "... just outside the kitchen door where the bleeding tree stood"?
Grindstone
"...he crawled backwards as if he were is reverse and could not change gears" is an example of what figurative device?
Simile
This "crazy, crazy" lady wrote a letter to the president daily.
Miss Leedie
Who is the author of "The Scarlet Ibis" (first and last name)?
James Hurst
"Finally I could see I was licked." Licked means....
cooked
What TWO pieces of information tell us the exposition (setting) of the story?
Crazy Miss Leedie has a crush on President Wilson in office from 1913-1921, and the boys swim at Horsehead Landing which is located in North Carolina.
When Doodle "...collapsed onto the mud, he sent an armada of fiddler crabs...." The use of "armada" is an example of a(n) what figurative device?
Metaphor
"Does it make any difference?"
Doodle
This is the ADJECTIVE form of a word that means incapable of making a mistake, like all your perfect teachers!
Infallible
Even death did not "mar" its (scarlet ibis) grace. Mar means....
ruin, mess up
According to Brother, what place was "...the only beauty I knew?"
Old Woman Swamp
The storm at the end of the story is an example of three figurative devices. Name at least two of them.
Bonus for all three.
Personification, Sensory Detail, and Foreshadowing
"Dead birds is bad luck. Specially red dead birds."
Aunt Nicey
This is the name of the rat poisoning on Doodle's mahagony coffin.
Paris Green
What are nettles?
A plant with hairs that sting people.
While laboriously keeping up with Doodle's "terrific development program," what two words were used as an idiom to describe this time?
Dog days
What is one of the two oxymorons in this short story?
Bonus for answering both of them.
sick-sweet smell and wonderful-terrible thing
This skilled carpenter helped build Doodle's mahogony casket.
Mr. Heath
What two figurative devices are used in "...our laughter peeling through the swamp like a ringing bell."
sensory detail (sound/hearing) and simile
What does "evanesced" mean (two word description)?
Gradually disappeared.
The fallen scarlet ibis is a ___________for Doodle and it _______________ his death (two figurative devices).
Metaphor and foreshadows.
Words such as mournful, casket, rotting, dead and tombstone all contribute to a melancholy and woeful vibe for what figurative device?
Tone, the overall feeling or vibe.
"It's a scarlet ibis."
Daddy
This is the color of the phlox flower in this story.
Purple