Meanings
The boy was as brave as a lion in the jungle.
This type of figurative language is
What is a simile
The series of related events that make up the story of The Unicorn in the Garden is called the
What is the plot?
The narrator, Annie John, describes the Red Girl as someone who
What is does not care about how she looks.
When characters say one thing but mean the opposite, they are usingwh
what is verbal irony or sarcasm?
In “Mother to Son,” the narrator’s many difficulties and setbacks are illustrated by many images except this one
What is the crystal stair?
Chaos is a friend of the legislator.
This type of figurative language is
What is a metaphor?
This main conflict or problem in the story is that
What is the wife does not believe her husband about the unicorn?
When the narrator says, “she took a bath only once a week, and that was only so that she would be allowed into her grandmother's house,” we can characterize the grandmother as
strict and firm
Situational irony occurs when
when what we expect will happen and what actually occurs are the opposite?
The author’s use of phrases like “ain’t been no” and “I’se still goin’” in “Mother to Son” creates the voice of
What is a working class woman with little education
April is the cruelest month of the year.
This is an example of what figurative language
What is Personification
The climax of the story, the moment of greatest tension, occurs when
What is the psychiatrist and police think that the wife is crazy and put a straightjacket on her.
From what the narrator says about herself, you can infer that the narrator
What is wishes she could be like the Red Girl
The short story ironic because
What is the reader expects the parents to want their child to be safe and give him good advice
The mother’s motivation in addressing her son in “Mother to Son" is
What is encouraging him to push on in life even when life is difficult.
The alarm clock buzzed at the time I was going to the bathroom.
Onomatopoeia
The mood or feeling of this story would be described as
What is humorous or amusing?
The narrator’s desire to be like the Red Girl is what type of conflict?
What is Internal conflict, person v. self
The inference about why the moth’s parents and brothers and sisters all died so young
What is they were all burnt to death from hanging around lamps.
The conflict in “I Stand Here Ironing is this type of conflict
What is An internal conflict because the speaker is worried thatshe was not a good mother
Head can refer to counting cattle or people
This is a
What is Synecdoche?
What is surprising or ironic about the ending of The Unicorn in the Garden?
What is the wife is put in an institution for being crazy, not the husband.
The grandmother is a/an (protagonist or antagonist) for the Red Girl because
Whar is an antagonist; she makes the Red Girl wash when she doesn’t want to
The theme, or insight about life, the story and its moral suggests is
What is dreaming big dreams will lead to a long and happy life.
The universal theme of "I stand here Ironing" and "Mother to son" ia
What is Don’t let the hardships of life determine your fate