Postmodernism
Summary
Literary Devices
Characters
100

The postmodernism element in this quote, "Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true."

What is a paradox?

100

The toy Mitchell Sanders plays with throughout the chapter

What is a yo-yo?

100

The literary device in this quote, "In a true war story, if there's a moral at all, it's like the thread that makes the cloth. You can't tease it out. You can't extract the meaning without unraveling the deeper meaning."

What is a simile?

100

Curt Lemon's best friend

Who is Rat Kiley?

200

What postmodernism element is apparent in the quote "War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love."?

What is Pardox?

200

The thing that Rat Kiley and Curt Lemon were playing with before Lemon dies

What is a smoke grenade?

200

The literary device in this quote, "Like Brigadoon—pure vapor, you know?"

What is an allusion?

200

The character who dies in this chapter 

Who is Curt Lemon?

300

The broken-up story of Curt Lemon's death is an example of what postmodernism element

What is fragmentation?

300

The animal that they found

What is a water buffalo?

300

What literary device is in this quote, "Weird echoes and stuff. Like a radio or something, but it's not a radio, it's a strange gook music that comes right out of the rocks."

What is personification?

300

The character who told the story about the six-man patrol in the mountains

Who is Mitchell Sanders?

400

What postmodernism element is apparent in the quote "For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel—the spiritual texture—of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity."?

what is Relativism?

400
The night Curt Lemon went out and painted his whole body

What is Halloween?

400

What type of literary device is in this quote, “Well, that’s Nam,” he said. “Garden of Evil. Over here, man, every sin’s real fresh and original.”

What is an allusion?

400

The character who Rat Kiley writes a letter to

Who is Curt Lemon's sister?

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