Characters
Quotes
Literary Terms
Plot
Literary Terms 2
100
He lost his hand and received $250 in compensation.
Who is Candy
100
Who said: “She’s gonna make a mess. They’s gonna be a bad mess about her. She’s a jail bait all set on the trigger.”
Who is Candy?
100
“Lennie dabbled his big pay in the water.”
What is a metaphor?
100
Lennie was supposed to go here if he got into trouble.
What is the brush?
100
"On the sand banks, the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones."
What is a simile?
200
Shoots the old dog.
Who is Carlson?
200
He said: “I’d pet ‘em, and pretty soon they big my fingers and I pinched their heads a little and they was dead – because they was so little.”
Who is Lennie?
200
The use of words like “thud,” “clang,” “buzz".
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Where they are traveling from at the beginning of the novel.
What is Weed?
200
"Let's have different color rabbits, George." "sure we will...red and blue and green rabbits, Lennie. Millions of 'em."
What is hyperbole?
300
He's the jerkline skinner, the "prince" of the ranch.
Who is Slim?
300
He says: “You got no right to come in my room. This here’s my room. Nobody got any right in here but me.”
Who is Crooks?
300
“Then gradually time awakened again and moved sluggishly on.”
What is personification?
300
The men lie and say that Curley’s hand got crushed by this.
What is a machine?
300
Slim said, "Carlson." "Yeah?" "You know what to do." "What you mean, Slim?" "Take a shovel," said Slim shortly. "Oh sure! I get you." He led the dog out into the darkness.
What is dialogue?
400
His hand was crushed by Lennie.
Who is Curley?
400
Who said: “An’ s’pose they lock him up an’ strap him down in a cage. That ain’t no good.”
Who is Slim?
400
Candy is troubled over whether or not to have his dog killed. Later he says that he should have done it himself.
What is internal conflict?
400
Characters that knew about George and Lennie’s dream.
Who are Candy and Crooks?
400
Curley forces Lennie into a physical confrontation.
What is external conflict?
500
The stable buck on the ranch.
Who is Crooks?
500
He says: “That dog of Candy’s is so old he can’t hardly walk…Why’n’t you get Candy to shoot his old dog.”
Who is Carlson?
500
This is when we learn about the character directly from the narrator. For example, if the narrator tells directly what Curley’s wife looks like: “full, rouged lips and wide spaced eyes.”
What is direct characterization?
500
The setting of the story. (state)
What is California?
500
"The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool."
What is a imagery?