Narrative Techniques
The use of irony to mock or convey contempt
What is sarcasm?
The idea, emotion, part of society related to the text
What is the thematic topic?
Where is Holden in the beginning of the novel
What is a sanitarium?
The narrator
Who is Holden Caulfield
The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.
What is understatement?
What the author has to say about the topic (can be seen as a lesson learned)
What is the thematic statement?
The Caulfield's reason for wanting Holden to be pyschoanalyzed
What is Allie's death?
Holden's sister
Who is Phoebe?
The literary technique in which there is incongruity between the literal and implied meaning.
What is irony?
The four common thematic topics we noticed in the novel
What are appearances, society's expectations, isolation as a form of protection, and the pain of growing up
What Holden gives the nuns
What is a monetary donation?
Holden's date
Who is Sally?
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
What is satire?
Holden's red hunting hat is most closely associated with this thematic topic
What is isolation as a means of protection?
Holden gives Phoebe this
What is his red hunting hat?
The reason Holden wants to be "The Catcher In The Rye"
Who is Allie?
A narrator whose credibility is compromised by one means or another.
What is an unreliable narrator?
The ducks on the Central Park lake are most closely associated with this thematic topic
What is the pains of growing up?
Written on the school wall
What is a curse word?
The person who Holden refuses to believe has grown up
Who is Jane?