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Wild Card Challenges
100
This is where and when the story takes place.
What is the setting?
100
A problem in the story that needs resolution.
What is conflict?
100

Holden's hat, Mama's plant, Piggy's glasses, or Lennie's rabbits.

What are symbols?

100
Holden's fight with Stradlater or Lennie's fight with Curley.
What is conflict?
100
A small thing used to represent something larger; the island serves as this in Lord of the Flies.
What is a microcosm?
200
Events or signs that provide clues about what is to happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
A comparison between two similar things using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
The path "beaten hard" by those that passed through, "the ashpile from many fires" and the tree "limb worn smooth" from many who sat on it.
What is imagery?
200

When the author uses the physical description of a character, or their actions, or their dialogue to reveal the character's personality, such as George's "restless eyes" in Of Mice and Men.

What is characterization?

200

The title Of Mice and Men is an _______________to the poem by Robert Burns "To a Mouse."

What is an allusion?

300
Something (typically concrete) used to represent something else (typically abstract).
What is a symbol?
300
The way in which relationships, actions, thoughts, and dialogue can reveal a character's personality.
What is characterization?
300

The way in which the shooting of Candy's dog by Carlson is related to something later in the novel.

What is foreshadowing?

300

When Lennie returns to the "safe spot" George has designated for him, and he is shot.

What is irony?

300
When Holden's thoughts flow from one idea to the next in order to reflect the way individuals think.
What is stream of consciousness?
400
Descriptive details that appeal to the senses.
What is imagery?
400
The contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
What is irony?
400

Holden provides this for readers in The Catcher in the Rye by narrating the story.

What is point of view?

400
"Jack was bent double. He was down like a sprinter."
What is a simile?
400

These provide a description and details of the setting at the beginning of A Raisin in the Sun.

What are stage directions?

500
The author's message or perspective; in other words, the meaning of the text.
What is theme?
500

A self-contradictory statement; in other words, a statement that does not seem to make sense at first, but upon reflection, actually does.

What is a paradox?

500

The American dream provided hope for a better future, but many were unable to achieve it, or when forced to choose between personal desires and family obligations, sometimes there is no easy choice.

What is a theme?

500
Shakespeare's Hamlet says, "I must be cruel to be kind."
What is a paradox?
500

The quote that appears at the beginning of a piece of literature and suggests a central idea that will be explored.

What is an epigraph?