Elements of Fiction
Spencer tells Holden that "life is a game," which is an example of this literary device.
What is a metaphor?
Holden writes about this object for Stradlater's English composition.
What is Allie's baseball mitt?
According to Aristotle's definition in Poetics, a tragedy should evoke these emotions in the audience.
What is pity and fear?
This word refers to scattered fragments or wreckage, such as driftwood on the beach after a storm.
What is debris?
This noun suffix refers to "the quality of" something.
What is -ness?
Creon going to release Antigone from her tomb falls along this point of the typical plot diagram.
What is the climax?
Holden imagines himself dying after being punched in the stomach by this character.
Who is Maurice?
In mythology, Oedipus unknowingly marries this woman, who he later discovers is his mother.
Who is Jocasta?
This adjective refers to something sudden and violent but brief, such as occasional flashes of lightning.
What is spasmodic?
This Latin prefix means "in front of" or "against."
What is ob-?
The Catcher in the Rye famously uses this type of narration.
(Include both grammatical person and level of insight.)
What is first person limited?
This character is the first person Holden calls from his hotel room in New York City.
Who is Faith Cavendish?
This blind prophet warns Creon that Polynices should be buried or else it will upset the gods.
Who is Tiresias?
This adjective describes something that lasts for a long time, such as a long-running tradition.
What is perennial?
What is dis-, in-, non-, and un-?
Holden saying that his parents "would have about two hemorrhages apiece" if he revealed anything personal about them is an example of this literary device.
What is hyperbole?
This record, which Holden buys for Phoebe, accidentally (and symbolically) shatters on the ground.
"Little Shirley Beans"
This Greek term refers to an ode performed by the chorus between scenes.
What is a stasimon?
This word refers to a claim that is not true, such as a politician's false promise.
What is spurious?
Coming from Latin, this root means low.
What is bas?
Ismene's mention of the family curse in the opening scene of Antigone is an example of this literary device.
What is foreshadowing?
Holden gets the idea for dream job - of being a "catcher in the rye" - by misremembering the words to a poem by this writer.
Who is Robert Burns?
This section of the theater is where spectators were seated in ancient Greece?
What is a koilon?
This verb described spreading or scattering something freely or widely, such as the soft glow of a candle covering a room.
What is diffuse?
This Latin word root means "true" or "truth."
What is ver?