This character has a gross habit of popping pimples in public.
Who is Ackley?
100
Troy Masterson does this for a living.
What is a garbage man?
100
Jimmy Cross gets distracted by this person, when he loses one of his men.
Who is Martha?
100
The following quote is an example of what literary device?
"...saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone."
What is simile?
200
How many husbands did the main character have?
What is 3.
200
This belonged to Allie and had poems written all over it.
What is a baseball glove?
200
Corey has problems with Troy because he wants to do this?
What is go to college or play football?
200
This is an inference we can make about Kiowa since he carries a bible with him.
What is he is religious/spiritual?
200
Other than metaphor, this literary device can be found here:
"Chocolate was her Achilles heel."
What is allusion?
300
This symbolizes the control that her husband has over the main character.
What is the handkerchief?
300
At the end this finally brings Holden some happiness, since it's like an endless childhood experience.
What is the carousel/merry go round?
300
Troy starts a controversy at work and ends up getting promoted because he complains about this.
What is only whites being allowed to drive the trucks?
300
Other than the letters and the photo, Jimmy Cross spends a lot of time focusing on this object.
What is a pebble?
300
This literary device is used when Rat Kiley says Curt Lemon killed about twenty zillion fish by using hand grenades.
What is hyperbole?
400
The town humiliates and torments this, but it offends the main character.
What is the mule?
400
This makes Holden feel comfortable when he wears it.
What is his hunting hat?
400
Troy often uses this as a metaphor throughout the book.
What is baseball?
400
In this short story, O'Brien says, "the war was like a ping pong ball. You could put fancy "this" on it."
What is Spin?
400
This tone is displayed by the following passage:
"The game with Saxon Hall was supposed to be a very big deal around Pencey. It was the last game of the year, and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win."
What is sarcastic?
500
This symbolizes the main character's hopes and dreams. She finally pulls it in like a "big fishnet" at the end of the book.
What is the horizon?
500
Ironically, Holden does this after he get punched in the gut by Maurice.
What is "act" like he's shot?
500
Troy cheats on his wife and has a baby with her.
Who is Alberta?
500
This sort of truth can be more important than the facts or "actual truth" according to Tim O'Brien.
What is "story truth?"
500
"I was a coward. I went to war." is an example of this literary device.