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"For the most part, those days are ill-defined in my memory, running together like a fresh watercolor painting left out in the rain."
What is Simile?
100
"Marigolds" is an example of this kind of story.
What is Buildungsroman?
100

Lizabeth struggles to understand herself and become a young woman.

What is Man vs. Self Conflict?

100
Lizabeth destroys Miss Lottie's Marigolds.
What is Climax?
100
"My mother's voice was like a cool, dark room in summer--peaceful, soothing, quiet."
What is Simile?
100

Joey is this age

Eleven 
200
"My father whittled toys for us, and laughed so loud that the great oak seemed to laugh with him."
What is Personification?
200
Lizabeth tells the story of her coming of age.
What is First-Person Narration?
200
1930's Maryland
What is Setting?
200
Lizabeth talks about her hometown, the marigolds, and Miss. Lottie.
What is exposition?
200
One word cannot be an example of this.
What is Theme?
200
Who is Mr. Ellis?

The husband of the family Lizabeth's mother works for.

300
"I fell again the chaotic emotions of adolescence, illusive as smoke, yet as real as the potted geranium before me now."
What is Simile?
300
this symbolized happiness in a time of depression.
What are marigolds?
300
Lizabeth is an example of this.
What is Protagonist?
300
Lizabeth and her brothers leave her house in the night after hearing her dad cry.
What is rising action?
300
This is what the audience feels when reading the story.
What is Mood?
300

 Lizabeth's mother is going to bring home this item for her husband

a coat

400
"Poverty was a cage in which we were all trapped, and our hatred of it was still the vague, undirected restlessness of the zoo-bred flamingo who knows that nature created him to fly free."
What is Metaphor?
400
The dust symbolizes this.
What is poverty?
400
The narrators attitude toward the story.
What is Tone?
400
Lizabeth talks about how Miss. Lottie is after rolling in her Marigolds and explains she has compassion and no longer innocence.
What is falling action?
400
The structure of a story.
What is Plot?
400

Eugenia W. Collier -- The W stands for...

Williams

500
"I was running as if the Furries were after me, as perhaps they were - running silently and furiously..."
What is Allusion?
500
Lizabeth goes out in the night and brings Joey.
What is foreshadowing?
500

This type of conflict is represented by Lizabeth destroying the flowers.

Man vs. self

500
Lizabeth explains that she is now older and has also planted marigolds.
What is resolution?
500
Lizabeth is an example of this type of character.
What is Dynamic Character?
500

This is the year "Marigolds" was written

1969