It is an adjective that means "fake" or "counterfeit" and is the adjective Holden used to describe everyone except for Phoebe and Jane Gallagher.
What is a phony?
100
It is the protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye.
Who is Holden Caulfield?
100
This is what Holden did that caused the fencing team to ostracize him.
What is....... on the way to their competition, Holden, the captain of the fencing team, left all the foils (fencing equipment/gear) on the train?
100
It is the literary technique used in the following excerpt:
"She sounds like a goddam schoolteacher sometimes, and she's only a little child."
What is a Simile?
100
It is what Mr. Antolini calls Holden when he is leaving his apartment.
What is....... a very, very strange boy?
200
It is a verb meaning to wander away from the main topic or argument in speaking or writing.
Holden constantly does this while speaking.
What is to digress?
200
Holden's older brother who he describes as a prostitute. Explain why.
Who is D.B?
200
This was written on Allie's baseball glove.
What is poetry?
200
It is the literary technique used in the following excerpt:
"A lot of schools were home for vacation already, and there were about a million girls sitting and standing around waiting for their dates to show up."
What is a Hyperbole?
200
It is the literary technique used in the following excerpt, and the person being described.
"He was a skinny little weak-looking guy, with wrists as big as pencils."
What is a Simile? Who is James Castle?
300
This verb means to exclude or banish from society.
What is to ostracize?
300
The only girl who wanted to run away with Holden.
Who is Phoebe?
300
Phoebe told Holden to tell him this one thing, and his response.
What is..... name one thing he likes? Holden responded he likes Allie.
300
It is the literary technique used in the following excerpt:
"The funny part is, I felt like marrying her the minute I saw her. I'm crazy. I didn't even like her much, and yet all of a sudden I felt like I was in love with her and wanted to marry her."
What is Irony?
300
It is the only person that Holden showed Allie's baseball mitt with the poetry written on, and also one of two people Holden did not call a "phony".
Who is Jane Gallagher?
400
This word is an adjective meaning hidden or in disguise; a person whose identity is unknown.
What is incognito?
400
Holden was disturbed by this person's youth when she came to his hotel room, and why.
Who is Sunny? Holden wants to save all the children from-growing up/losing their innocence.
400
This is what Holden wants to do with his life and why.
What is....... to be the "catcher in the rye?" Because Holden heard this poem and misunderstood it. He thought it meant to save all children from losing their innocence and from growing up; but it meant to meet someone- on purpose like a rendezvous.
400
It is the literary technique used in the following excerpt:
"Now he's out in Hollywood, D.B., being a prostitute."
What is a Metaphor?
400
It is the place Holden is while he is narrating this entire story.
What is an institution for mental illness?
500
This word is an adjective that means tending or serving to excite, stimulate, or vex;
- arousing, stirring, stimulating, or annoying
It is a description of Holden when he instigated Stradlater into punching him.
What is provocative?
500
Holden misunderstood this person, ran out of his house, and later regretted it; and the reason why.
Who is Mr. Antolini? Holden thought Mr. Antolini was making a pass at him.
500
It is something both Holden and Phoebe were good at.
What is writing?
500
It is the literary technique used in the following excerpt:
"Anyway I like it now. Sitting here with you and just chewing the fat and horsing___"
What is an Idiom?
500
It is where Holden told Phoebe he was going after she finished her ride on the carrousel.