Chapters 1-2
More One and Two
1, 2, 3, and 4
The Prodigal Son and More
Standard English
100
When the story opens Pip is visiting his families’ ______.
What is graves?
100
The point of view the story is told from is ____. (first person, but name the character)
What is Pip’s?
100
When Mrs. Joe says, “Ask no questions and you’ll be told no lies,” and Pip writes . . . ‘It was not very polite to herself, I thought, to imply that I should be told lies by her, even if I did ask questions. But she never was polite, unless there was company.’ This is an example of ________ _________.
What is indirect characterization?
100
When Woplse speaks of the swine he is making an allusion to the pigs that the ________ _____ took a job feeding in a foreign country to keep from starving.
What is prodigal son?
100
“Show us where you live,” said the man. “Pint out the place.”
What is "Show me where you live. Point out the place"?
200
The author hooks readers immediately by having Pip get captured and threatened by a _______.
What is convict?
200
One unusual thing about the way the author uses this first person point of view is that Pip is not always a likable _______. (literary term for a person who takes part in a story)
What is character?
200
At the end of Chapter 2 the author leaves Pip sneaking away from the property with his stolen file and food. This creates a feeling of ________ for the reader.
What is suspense?
200
The prodigal decided to go home and beg his _______ for mercy.
What is father?
200
“Darn me if I couldn’t eat ‘em,” said the man, with a threatening shake of his head, “and if I han’t half a mind to’it!”
What is darn me if I couldn’t eat them . . . an if I haven’t half a mind to do it.
300
Pip is afraid if he does not return with the file and food he will be ______ by the young gentleman.
What is killed/roasted/ate?
300
Pip is living with ___ _______ and Mrs. Joe because his parents are dead.
What is Joe Gargery?
300
When Pip sets out to meet the convict and deliver the food, he first finds the second ________.
What is convict?
300
The irony about ____ _____ not attending church is that she needs to go work on her spirit far more than Joe and Pip do. This is situational irony.
What is Mrs. Joe?
300
“An you know what wittles is?” (Uncle Jed)
What is "And you know what victuals are?"
400
Mrs. Joe calls her stick “_______.” This irony reveals she probably enjoys beating Pip and Joe.
What is Tickler?
400
Mrs. Joe is Pip’s ______.
What is sister?
400
It is ________ about how the first convict acts when he hears about the second one because he hates the second convict.
What is surprising?
400
The funny scene at the Christmas dinner at the Gargery’s house is when Uncle Pumblechook drinks the ___ _______ thinking it is brandy.
What is tar water?
400
“You fail, or go from my words in any (partickler), no matter how small it is”
What is particular?
500
Tickler could be considered and ______ character name.
What is ironic?
500
__ ____ or simply ____ is Pip’s brother-in-law and they are really good friends.
What is Mr. Joe?
500
When Wopsle mentions “___ _______” he is making an allusion to the prodigal son from the Bible story about the younger brother who took his inheritance early and squandered it on riotous living.
What is the prodigal?
500
Dickens characterizes __ ________ as a man who may want to be an actor and is in love with the sound his voice.
What is Mr. Wopsle?
500
“That young man has a secret way (pecooliar) to himself of getting at a boy and at his heart and at his liver” and “It is in (wain) for a boy to attempt to hide himself from that young man”
What are peculiar and vain?