Symbolism
The Catcher in the Rye has many different symbols--name one.
What is the red hunting hat, the ducks, Allie's baseball mitt, or Jane Gallagher?
In "There Will Come Soft Rains" the event of the house burning down can support this theme.
What is nature will go on without us?
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These two types of figurative language are comparisons made between two similar things.
What are simile and metaphor?
This type of characterization has to be inferred from clues and evidence from a story. It an be inferred from actions and reactions of the characters.
What is indirect characterization?
What type of figurative language is represented below?
The music meandered across the park to her ears. She had to follow it to the source.
What is personification?
In the "The Masque of the Red Death," this is what the different colored rooms were symbolic of.
What are the stages of life?
In The Lion King, the fact that Simba faces off with Scare and takes his rightful place as king could create this theme?
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What is you must step up and take control of your life?
What is foreshadowing?
This type of characterization is when the author explicitly states a quality of a character.
What is direct characterization?
What is the inciting incident or the event that begins the rising action in The Catcher in the Rye?
What is when Holden leaves Pencey?
"Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket" is about a man struggling to save his data recorded on a sheet of paper after it flies out the window. In relation to his job, this could be something the paper represents.
What is his future success/a promotion?
In the fable "The Crow and the Pitcher" at first the crow is unable to get a drink of the water in the pitcher because the water level is too low. He persists though and uses pebbles to raise the water level. This is a theme that could work for this fable.
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What is never give up, work smarter not harder?
This term is when the regular narrative of the story is interrupted by a look back at something in the past relevant to the storyline.
What is foreshadowing?
This type of characterization is used in the example below. Also, this is a trait one of the characters possesses considering that type of characterization.
The young woman leaned over and help the older woman pick up the items that fell out of her purse.
What is indirect characterization and that she is kind/helpful?
In "There Will Come Soft Rains" this is the main conflict if the house is considered as a main character.
What is character versus nature (the house burning down)?
In "There Will Come Soft Rains" what could the dog represent in relation to what happen or what has perished from the world?
What is the last living connection to humankind?
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This could be a theme for "The Masque of the Red Death" if the reader focuses on the presence of the cloaked figure that appears and what happens to the host.
What is you can't escape death?
When Lily compares her experience waiting for June to answer Neil about marrying him to her anxiety when she struggle to unscramble a word in school is this type of figurative language.
What is an analogy?
This type of characterization is used in the example below.
The doctor was tall and unnaturally thin. He looked almost as sickly as the patient that lay in the bed before him.
What is direct characterization?
These three things are what about a character could represent the "self" part of an internal conflict.
You must name all three!
What are thoughts, feelings, or decisions?
In The Catcher in the Rye, the ducks are a symbol of this.
What is changing, maturing, moving on?
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Keeping in mind that Catcher in the Rye is a coming of age story, what possible theme does this story relate?
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"The Masque of the Red Death" is related to this term in which a story has a literal level of understanding, as well as a deeper level of understanding.
What is symbolism?
This is a character trait that you could infer from the following example.
The teacher stood in front of the class, arms crossed, tapping her foot.
What is angry/annoyed?
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In this scene from the Blues Brothers, Jake and Elwood are attempting to recruit one of their old band members to join them. What can you infer about them or the former member of their band (the maî·tre d')? Why?