Literary
A direct comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Emotional, feelings
What is pathos?
Holden buys this comfort item in New York for one dollar after losing the fencing team's equipment on the subway.
What is a red hunting hat?
An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or dramatic effect that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
Charactar or fame
What is ethos?
This deeply personal object belongs to Holden’s deceased brother and is covered in poems written in green ink.
What is Allie's baseball glove?
The attribution of human characteristics, emotions, or behaviors to non-human objects or animals.
What is personification?
A question asked strictly for stylistic effect, intended to make a point rather than solicit an actual reply.
What is a rhetorical question?
The name of the expensive Pennsylvania boarding school that Holden is expelled from at the start of the novel.
What is Pencey Prep?
A recurring element, image, or idea in a work of literature that helps to develop and inform the central theme.
What is a motif?
Logical,makes sense
Logos
Holden's conceited, secret-infuriating roommate who asks Holden to write an English composition for him before going out on a date with Jane Gallagher.
Who is Stradlater?
The deliberate placement of two contrasting ideas, characters, or places side-by-side to highlight their differences.
What is juxtaposition?
A literary device that features two opposing or contrasting ideas paired together using a parallel grammatical structure.
What is antithesis?
Holden repeatedly asks taxi drivers about the fate of these specific creatures when the winter freeze sets into Central Park.
What are the ducks?