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Who Said This?
Literary Terms
Chapters 1 & 2
Chapter 3
Vocabulary
100

"Ain't a thing in my pocket."

Who is Lennie?

100

The rabbits sat as quietly as little smooth sculptured stones.

A) Simile

B)Metaphor 

C) Hyperbole

D) Personification

What is a simile?

100
In this chapter he is first characterized as frustrated and hostile.
Who is George?
100
The game the characters are playing in the beginning of Chapter 3.
What is horseshoes?
100

Lumbered

What is to move clumsily or heavily?

200

"What the hell kind of bed you giving us? We don't want no pants rabbits."

Who is George?

200

He looked across the fire at Lennie's face and then looked ashamedly into the flames. 

A)Alliteration

B) Direct Characterization

C) Indirect Characterization

D) Onomatopoeia

What is indirect characterization?

200
The town that Lennie and George were "Run Outta."
What is Weed?
200
This character finds it 'funny' that George and Lennie travel together?
Who is Slim?
200

Morosely

What is in a withdrawn or gloomy way; sadly; thoughtfully?

300

"You know what I think....I think Curley married himself...a tart"

Who is Candy (Old Swamper)?

300

Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box. And these shelves were loaded with little articles: soap and talcum, razors and those Western magazines...

A) Simile

B) Hyperbole

C) Setting

D)Metaphor

What is setting?

300
This character arrives on the scene with his heeled boots and gloved hand.
Who is Curley?
300
The animal that George tells Lennie to put back in the nest.
What is a puppy?
300

Mottled

What is spotted; marked with different colors?

400

"She slang her pups last night...nine of em'. I drowned four right off."

Who is Slim?

400

"This here's Lennie Smalls."

A) Simile

B) Hyperbole

C) Irony

D) Onomatopoeia


What is irony?

400
While all characters think that Curley's wife is a "loo-loo" he finds her particularly attractive.
Who is Lennie?
400
The thing Slim persuades Curley to tell his father that his hand was crushed by.
What is a machine?
400

Derogatory

What is critical or disparaging?

500

"She's got the eye going all the time. She may have even gave the stable buck the eye."

Who is Whit?

500

Although there was evening brightness showing through the windows of the bunk house, inside it was dark. 

A) Direct Characterization

B) Foreshadowing

C) Cliché

D) Metaphor 

What is foreshadowing?

500
The two emotions George revealed when he described what he could do if he didn't have Lennie hanging after him were...
What is anger and guilt?
500
Steinbeck describes Curley's helplessness during the fight against Lennie using this simile.
What is a flopping like a fish on a line?
500

Pugnacious

What is belligerent or aggressive in nature; quarrelsome?