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Everyone's Favourite
This and That
Phonies and Innocence
Independent Woman
The Basics
100
What poems are divided into.
What are stanzas?
100
The struggle a character goes through.
What is conflict?
100
The first and last name of the protagonist in The Catcher In The Rye.
Who is Holden Caulfield?
100
Hagar's nickname for her daughter in-law.
What is "Fat Doris"?
100
A direct comparison between two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
200
A 14 line poem made up of three quatrains and a rhyming couplet.
What is a sonnet?
200
A type of essay that tells a story or part of a story. Must involve some type of conflict.
What is a narrative?
200
The only thing Holden likes.
Who is Ally?
200
What Hagar hated most about Bram.
What is the way Bram spoke?
200
Giving living characteristics to non-living things.
What is personification?
300
The person telling the events of the poem.
Who is the speaker?
300
A way of disclosing a characters inner thoughts in a play.
What is a soliloquy?
300
Holden has this when watching his sister reach for the golden ring.
What is an epiphany?
300
This character has a role reversal with Hagar as they get older.
Who is Lottie?
300
Word choice.
What is diction?
400
The poets feelings towards the subject matter of the poem.
What is tone?
400
When an essay discusses the similarities and differences between characters, people, things, etc.
What is compare and contrast?
400
This character's role is to show the irony in Holden's obsession.
Who is Phoebe?
400
One (out of two) of the things that Hagar did that was truly free. BONUS 100 POINTS: Name the other.
What is the joke she shared with the young girl? What is the lie she told Marvin?
400
A reference, within a literary work, to another work of fiction, a film, a piece of art, or even a real event or person.
What is an allusion?
500
A type of lyric poem that expresses sadness for someone who has died.
What is an elegy?
500
An apparent contradiction or absurdity that is somehow true.
What is a paradox?
500
Symbolizes Holden's need for things to stay the same.
What is the museum?
500
The reason why Hagar remembers the incident with the chicks at the dump.
What is a moment of weakness?
500
When what is said is the opposite of what is meant. Sarcasm is an example.
What is verbal irony?