Plot
The protagonist of Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
Who is Connie
What is encantation
This character is described as wearing "a pull-over jersey blouse that looked one way when she was at home and another way when she was away from home."
Who is Connie
Crying like a fire in the sun is an example of what
What is a simile
Two mysterious men visit Connie
Who are Arnold Friend and Ellie
This technique uses runon-sentences, sensory details and an unrestricted interior monologue
What is stream of consciousness
This character is described to be wearing sunglasses told nothing about what he was thinking. He wore a bright orange shirt unbuttoned halfway to show his chest, which was a pale, bluish chest and not muscular.
Who is Ellie
This traveling wanderer is one of the characters from Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
Who is the vagabond
Connie and her friend get dropped off at the movie theater, but they really go to
What is a diner
“He sounded like a hero in a movie, declaring something important" is a form of what figurative language
What is a simile
This character used to be pretty and is the last person Connie cries out for
Who is Connie's mother
This character would speak in a lilt tone to Connie
Who is Arnold Friend
A symbol that Arnold Friend makes to Connie
What is an X
This device continuously shows up throughout the story and foreshadows Connie's death
What is the music
She is 24 and still lives at home
Who is June
This radio station played Bobby King and asked to pay close attention to the music
Who is XYZ Sunday Jamboree
Connie does this at the end of the story
What is walking out the house
The story is written from a point of view where the narrator’s knowledge is limited to one character. What is this point of view?
What is a limited omniscient point of view
This character, "drove the girls the three miles to town and left them at a shopping plaza so they could walk through the stores or go to a movie, and when he came to pick them up again at eleven he never bothered to ask what they had done."
Who is Connie's best girl friend's dad
This song contains the lyrics "Yellow matter custard,
Dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife pornographic priestess,
Boy you been a naughty girl,
You let your knickers down."
What is I am the Walrus