Postmodernism
The postmodernism element in this quote, "Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true."
What is a paradox?
The toy Mitchell Sanders plays with throughout the chapter
What is a yo-yo?
The literary device in this quote, "In a true war story, if there's a moral at all, it's like the thread that makes the cloth. You can't tease it out. You can't extract the meaning without unraveling the deeper meaning."
What is a simile?
Curt Lemon's best friend
Who is Rat Kiley?
What postmodernism element is apparent in the quote "War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love."?
What is Pardox?
The thing that Rat Kiley and Curt Lemon were playing with before Lemon dies
What is a smoke grenade?
The literary device in this quote, "Like Brigadoon—pure vapor, you know?"
What is an allusion?
The character who dies in this chapter
Who is Curt Lemon?
The broken-up story of Curt Lemon's death is an example of what postmodernism element
What is fragmentation?
The animal that they found
What is a water buffalo?
What literary device is in this quote, "Weird echoes and stuff. Like a radio or something, but it's not a radio, it's a strange gook music that comes right out of the rocks."
What is personification?
The character who told the story about the six-man patrol in the mountains
Who is Mitchell Sanders?
What postmodernism element is apparent in the quote "For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel—the spiritual texture—of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity."?
what is Relativism?
What is Halloween?
What type of literary device is in this quote, “Well, that’s Nam,” he said. “Garden of Evil. Over here, man, every sin’s real fresh and original.”
What is an allusion?
The character who Rat Kiley writes a letter to
Who is Curt Lemon's sister?