1-Curious Incident of a Dog in the Nighttime
Literary Devices
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Character
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The author's name

Mark Haddon

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The place, time and context in which a story occurs

Setting

100

What is Christopher's favourite colour?

Red

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The main character in a literary work

Protagonist

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The Main Character's Name in the Curious Incident of a Dog in the Nighttime

Christopher

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The character that Christopher lives with at the beginning of the book

Father

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A comparison using "like" or "as"

Simile

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Why does Christopher believe he is really good at remembering things?

His mind works like a film.

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A character or force in conflict with the main character

Antagonist

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The dead dog's owner

Mrs. Shears

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The book is set primarily in these two cities

London and Swindon

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The device characterized by struggle between two opposing forces

Conflict

300

Who wrote a letter to Christopher?

 His mother.

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A character who acts a contrast to another character

Foil

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The tool used to kill the dead dog

A garden fork

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The two colors Christopher hates

Yellow and Brown

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A person, place, or object which has a meaning in itself but represents other meanings as well

Symbol

400

What is Occam's Razor?

No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.

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The name for characters that populate the world of a story but do not necessarily have a vital role in the main storyline

Tertiary Characters

400

The man who Mother moves to London with

Mr. Shears (Roger)

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The reason Christopher decides to run away from home

He finds out his father lied about mother being dead

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The formal term used to describe word choice

Diction

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Who killed Wellington?

Christopher's father.

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The second most important and present character in a story—often called a secondary main character

Deuteragonist

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The elderly character who reveals to Christopher that his mother cheated on his father

Mrs. Alexander