When an inanimate object is given a human characteristic or emotion in a story.
What is personification
100
The point of view presented in Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"
What is first person point of view
100
Who is the author of "The Treasure of Lemon Brown"?
Who is Walter Dean Myers
100
A series of related and chronological events in a story
What is plot
100
A hint or a clue provided by the writer of something to come later on in a story.
What is foreshadow
200
The juxtaposition of two words that are oppositie in meaning placed together for rhetorical effect (e.g., ghetto fabulous)
What is an oxymoron
200
At what hour did the insane narrator end his murderous deed?
What is 4 a.m.
200
"The Treasure of Lemon Brown" is classified in this genre of literature?
What is fiction
200
Greg wants to play basketball but his dad refuses to let him play because Greg is failing math. Thus, Greg avoids going home to talk to his father about his poor performance in math.
What is the rising action
200
A series of short, flashed events replayed in their entirety to show the reader additional information that is important to understanding the plot holistically.
What is a flashback
300
An exageration of events or character done for rhetorical effect.
What is hyperbole
300
The use of reoccuring symbols or icons by Poe in his various works
What are motifs
300
What is the story's theme?
What is treasures are not always measured in monetary values; many treasures have to deal with love, respect, compassion, and sympathy for each other, especially loved ones.
300
Lemon Brown and Greg fend off the 3 thugs who enter the tenement looking for Lemon's treasure.
What is climax
300
The point of view in "The Treasure of Lemon Brown"
What is third person limited
400
Read the following line:
The night is a dark dancer in thich stars illumine the sky with its mystic beauty.
What is a metaphor
400
The name of Poe's mother who died from tuberculosis
Who is Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins
400
The genre of music Lemon Brown plays, and the state that this music originated.
What is the blues and the state of Mississippi
400
Lemon Brown shows Greg his treasure: a beaten harmonica and newspaper clippings. Lemon talks about his past life as a famous blues singer, his son Jesse who died in the war, and that he was once married.
What is falling action
400
Peter Piper picked a pale of pickled peppers...
What is alliteration
500
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout
Would not take the garbage out!
What is alliteration
500
Poe's famous poem in which man's dark heart and concious are personified through a black bird..
What is "The Raven"
500
Walter Dean Myers sets many of his stories in what city?
What is Harlem
500
Because the treasure Lemon Brown carries around with him is note denoted as money or coins, what word implies multiple meanings of words. These multiple meanings fit the situations presented within a piece of text.