The Pearl, Ch. 3 Literary Elements

At the end of chapter 3, Juana said, "It (the pearl) will destroy us all." This is an example of . . .

• conflict

• foreshadowing

• imagery

• symbolism

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

After saying his dreams, Kino, "suddenly was afraid of his talking..." "Now the neighbors knew they had witnessed a great marvel." These quotes illustrate...

• imagery

• irony

• 3rd person omniscient narration

• conflict

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"A town is a thing like a colonial animal." This is an example of...

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• paradox

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"And a town has a whole emotion." This is an example of...

• imagery

• conflic

• setting

• personification

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"The doctor's eyes rolled up a little in their fat hammocks and he thought of Paris." This is an example of...

• simile

• personification

• imagery

• symbolism

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Kino's pearl went into the dreams, the speculations, the schemes, the plans, the futures, the wishes, the needs, the lusts, the hungers, of everyone..." This sentence is typical of Steinbeck's . . .

• motif

• syntax

• tone

• theme

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"...(Kino) was glancing about suspiciously, for the evil song was in his ears, shrilling against the music of the pearl."

• irony

• paradox

• motif

• simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When the priest came to Kino's brush house, he began to hear the music of evil. The priest is supposed to be a good person. This is an example of...

• paradox

• imagery

• personification

• situational irony

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Kino "could not take the chance of pitting his certain ignorance against this man's (the doctor's) possible knowledge." This is an example of...

• conflict

• irony

• imagery

• mood

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"His hand closed down over the pearl and cut the light away from it." This is an example of...

• conflict

• paradox

• symbolism

• simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3