Figurative Language and the Novel
"Noiseless, Patient Spider"
"Icarus" Texts
"To A Mouse"
Novel Vocabulary
100
Chapter one and six both begin with the use of this common type of imagery where we can see the setting.
What is visual imagery?
100
Imagery including "bridges," "filaments," and "ductile anchors" suggest one of the poem's themes is this "C" word.
What is connection?
100
Name the father, the artificer, the inventor, who created wings for his son.
Bonus points for perfect spelling and capitalization
Who is Daedalus?
Toss-Up: In this heard sentence, correctly spell and punctuate the name. There are two acceptable answers.
100
The poem is written by a farmer speaking to a mouse whose hibernation home he has _______.
What is destroyed (or similar answers)?
100
Of "recumbent," "idyllic," and "floozy," a synonym for "tart," used to describe Curley's wife
What is "floozy?"
200
This card game is an ominous, symbol used to foreshadow that the book ends as it begins, with Lennie and George running away.
What is solitaire?
*Daily Double" The name of the town where the book takes place shares the same "lonely" word root as the card game.
200
Repetition of "ing" and "ed" ends makes words in this poem "go in the same direction," an example of this "geometric" two-word phrase "borrowed" for English class.
What is parallel structure?
200
In William Carlos William's version of the poem, his lines, "a splash quite unnoticed / this was/ Icarus drowning" uses *this* type of pronoun to point to Icarus, bringing into question how someone could have not seen him.
What is demonstrative?
*Toss-Up: What kind of pronouns (anyone, nobody, some, many) point at, but not something/one specifically?
200
In the line, "The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry," "awry" means ________.
What is "not as planned" (or similar answers)?
200
Of "crestfallen," "brusquely," and "pantomime," an adjective used to describe the downtrodden Candy and George when they realize the dream won't happen.
What is "crestfallen?"
300
Because we know the choices below are not meant, they all use ______ ______.
A) Lennie telling Curley’s wife that Curly got his hand caught in a machine.
B) George says that Curely’s wife “sure is hiding it” when he really means she’s flirting around the men.
C) Crooks telling Candy he’s not interested in joining the dream ranch.
What is verbal irony?
*Daily Double*: Mr. B. knows the answers to all of these questions, but by feigning not knowing the answers, he is employing this "ancient Greek" form of irony.
300
Repetition in "vacant" and "vast" uses this form of repetition by repeating the "V" sound.
What is alliteration?
300
The father tells his son not to _____ ____ to the ____, but the son does not listen, so he _________.
What is fly too close to the sun; dies/crashes/drowns? (or close answers)
300
"Oft" would be synonymous with *this word* today.
What is "often?"
300
Of "welter-weight," "pugnacious," and "monotonous," the one that does not have anything directly to do with fighting or boxing.
What is "monotonous?"
400
Any object, idea, symbol, or theme that recurs enough to suggest its deeper importance.
What is a motif?
*Toss Up* Name one frequently recurring motif in the novel.
400
The speaker talking to his soul is an example of this "A" figurative language.
What is apostrophe?
400
In Auden's poem, "Musee des Beaux Arts," he writes, the lines, "Water; and the expensive delicate ship that / must have seen / Something amazing, a boy falling out of the / sky, / Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly / on." What word contradicts Williams' line that Icarus was "unnoticed" or that the event was "unsignificant?" [sic]
What is "must?"
Toss Up: In the phrase "must have seen," what word is the action verb? The helping verb? What kind of word is "must?"
First-Hand: Why are there / in the quote?
Toss-Up: What does [sic] mean?
Geography Toss-Up: Auden's poem is called "Musee des Beaux Arts" because Bruegel's painting hangs in a museum by the same name in Brussels, the capital of *this* country
400
Of the choices below, the one that shows the advantage mice have because they can only worry about the present.
a. “That flimsy heap of leaves and stibble” b. “Still friend, you’re blessed compared with / me c. “I’m truly sorry Man’s Dominion / has broken Nature’s social union,” d. “But, oh, I backwards cast my eye.”
What is "D?"
400
George tries to pacify, calm, or ________ Lennie right before he ends his life.
What is mollify?
500
Those who claim the novella is a Cain and Abel tale are making a Biblical reference, or a_________.
What is allusion?
500
Repetition of the first word in successive lines and stanzas, as in the use of "Til" twice.
What is anaphora?
500
In the painting, point to the only person who can reasonably be said NOT to be a bystander.
Who is the fisherman/angler?
Toss-Up: If we are noting the side-by-side placement of bystanders in the painting, we are considering their j____________.
500
Which two men in the novel would be the least likely to be described as "surrounded by measureless oceans of space?"
Who are George and Lennie?
500
George, knowing what the dastardly or ________ Curley will do, is forced to e_________ Lennie by the river.
What is reprehensible, euthanize?