The Pearl: Ch 1-3 Quiz Review

This song is “the music of the enemy”, “savage”, and “dangerous”.

• Song of Evil

• Simile

• Song of Family

• Symbolism

The act of passing down knowledge, stories, and ideas through speech or song.

• Novella

• Imagery

• Oral Tradition

• Mood

Intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food; one of the themes of the story.

• Oral Tradition

• Symbol

• Symbolism

• Greed

A comparison of two things using the words “like” or “as”.

• Simile

• Mood

• Imagery

• Setting

The author of The Pearl.

• Coyotito

• John Steinbeck

• Kino

• Juana

A coastal town/ time period of where/ when the story takes place.

• Symbolism

• Coastal Mexico (1900s)

• Imagery

• Setting

The use of a symbol (or several symbols) throughout a text; an author will repeat the idea to show its importance.

• Symbol

• Setting

• Symbolism

• Simile

Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work; the “mental pictures” a reader sees in their head when reading a text.

• Symbol

• Mood

• Simile

• Imagery

The where and when a story takes place.

• Setting

• Simile

• Symbol

• Coastal Mexico (1900s)

A very short novel or a long short story.

• Mood

• Novella

• John Steinbeck

• Setting