Secret Life of Bees
Literary Devices
Miscellaneous
100

Lily's age when her mother died

What is 4
100

A direct comparison between two unlike things

What is a metaphor

100
The peak of tension or conflict in a text/story

What is the climax

200

The town Lily and Rosaleen travel to

What is Tiburon, South Carolina

200

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

What is personification

200

Genre: written as a play for theatre in verse or prose

What is drama

300

Symbol used to represent Lily and Rosaleen's entrapment in their situation

What is bees in a jar
300

The use of objects to represent ideas or qualities

What is symbolism

300

The author of Unusual Normality

Who is Ishmael Beah

400

The substance Rosaleen pours on the men's shoes at the end of chapter 1

What is snuff juice

400

A series of words that start with the same sound

What is alliteration

400

Genre: verse and rhythmic writing with imagery

What is poetry

500
The religious message Lily hears a voice speak to her

What is "Lily Melissa Owens, your jar is open"

500

An interruption in a narrative that depicts events that have already occurred

What is flashback

500

Name that T. Ray incorrectly calls Lily

What is "Julius Shakespeare"