Show:
Of Mice and Men
House on Mango Street
Gift of the Magi
Literary Terms
Vocab
100
One of the main characters, who ends up dying in the end.
Who is Lenny?
100
The author of the book.
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
100
The names of the two main characters.
What are Jim and Della?
100
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
100
This means to make an educated guess about something.
What is to infer?
200
The relationship between George and Lenny.
What is friendship?
200
The name of the narrator.
What is Esperanza?
200
The time of year the short story takes place.
What is Christmas?
200
When the narrator uses the pronouns "I", "Me", "My".
What is first person narration?
200
This word means clear or obvious.
What is vivid?
300
The setting of the story.
What is Salinas California, 1930s?
300
The children who are always out of control.
Who are the Vargas children?
300
The item that Jim sold to buy combs for Della.
What is his watch?
300
This type of character changes throughout the story.
What is a dynamic character?
300
This means being able to continue on through tough times.
What is resilience?
400
This is the climax of the story.
What is when Lenny breaks Curly's wife's neck?
400
The book is written in these.
What are vignettes?
400
How Della pays for Jim's watch chain.
What is she sells her hair?
400
We know many different traits about this type of character.
What is a round character?
400
A synonym for this word is "endlessly".
What is ceaselessly?
500
The name of the character who lives in the barn.
What is Crooks?
500
The perspective from which the book is written.
What is a young Mexican American girl?
500
The literary device used at the end of the story.
What is irony?
500
This is when something happens that is the opposite of what you expected.
What is irony?
500
This means noisy and out of control.
What is obstreperous?