Human characters
This character is insecure and feels like an outcast at school.
Who is Meg?
This terrifying, disembodied brain is the book's main antagonist.
What is IT?
This is the room where the book's first scene takes place.
What is the attic / Meg's bedroom?
This literary device compares two things WITHOUT using the words "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
This author wrote A Wrinkle in Time.
Who is Madeline L'engle?
This character is a 5-year-old genius.
Who is Charles Wallace?
This character ssppeeaakks liikke tthhiiss.
Who is Mrs. Which?
This is the planet where the children and the three W's first stop to rest.
What is Uriel?
This literary device applies human traits to non-human things.
What is personification?
Meg hears that a "tramp" stole Mrs. Bunnecombe's sheets, but it was actually this character.
Who is Mrs. Whatsit?
This character has a large family and abusive mother.
Who is Calvin?
This character used to be a star.
Who is Mrs. Whatsit?
On this planet where Meg's father is imprisoned, everyone acts exactly the same.
What is Camazotz?
Popularized by Shakespeare, this type of poem has 14 lines and ends in a rhyming couplet.
What is a sonnet?
This dog is the Murray family's pet.
Who is Fortinbras?
These two characters are Meg's twin brothers.
Who are Sandy and Dennys?
This character with no vision sings a beautiful song and takes care of Meg.
Who is Aunt Beast?
Mrs. Whatsit warns Charles Wallace that this trait may be his downfall.
What is pride?
In literature, this type of weather is often associated with change and cleansing.
What is rain?
Meg quotes this famous historical document while she's trying to resist IT.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This character offends Meg early in the book by implying that her father isn't coming back.
Who is Principal Jenkins?
This character uses a crystal ball to show Meg and Calvin their mothers.
Who is the Happy Medium?
Meg is able to defeat IT because she has this one thing that IT does not.
What is love?
Authors use this literary device to give the readers hints about what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
This is a nickname Meg's father has for her.
What is Megatron / Megaparsec?