Show:
Characters
Challenge
Who Said It?
Miscellaneous
Figurative Language
100
Who found Mr. Wright?
Neighbor Mr. Hale
100
Why did Mr. Hale got to the Wrights' farm?
To talk to Mr. Wright about getting a telephone
100
And yet for all their worries, what would we do without the ladies?
County Attorney 
100

What is the best way to describe the way men are presented in this play?  Insensitive, clever, duty-bound, fun-loving

insensitive
100

What is a simile

Comparing two unlike things using like or as 

200
Who is Minnie Foster?
Mrs. Wright/suspect
200
What was Mrs. Wright known for before she got married?
Her beautiful singing/participation in choir
200
Well, women are used to worrying over trifles.
Mr. Hale
200
Women, especially Mrs. Wright, are likened to what symbol?
caged birds
200

What is a metaphor?

Comparing 2 unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'

300
Who is the sheriff?
Mr. Peters
300
What order were the following found in?

cherry jam

bird

quilt

birdcage

jam, quilt, birdcage, bird
300
I wish I had come over sometimes while she was here..oh, I wish I had.
Mrs.Hale
300
The first "trifle" noticed by the men is _______?
dirty dishes and towels (something they label "poor housekeeping")
300

What is alliteration?

Alliteration is the repetition of an initial consonant sound in words that are in close proximity to each other.

400
Who is the County Attorney?
Mr. Henderson
400
What was the title of the short story Glaspell adapted to create "Trifles"?
A Jury of Her Peers
400

I know what stillness is. When we homesteaded in Dakota, and my first baby died—after he was two years old, and me with no other then...

Mrs. Peters
400
What discovery suggests Mrs. Wright was out of sorts?
poor stitching in an otherwise perfectly stitched quilt
400

What is an idiom?

a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. over the moon, see the light ).

500
What is Mrs. Hale's first name?
Martha
500
What type of bird did Mrs. Wright keep?
canary
500

When I was a girl—my kitten—there was a boy took a hatchet, and before my eyes—and before I could get there—(covers her face an instant) If they hadn't held me back I would have—(catches herself, looks upstairs where steps are heard, falters weakly)—hurt him.

Mrs. Peters
500
What was the final question the men ask the women at the end of the play?
Was she going to quilt or knot it?
500

What is irony?

the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.