Which is NOT a simile?

"...the white marquisette curtains billowed out in the afternoon sea breeze, rustling like palmetto fronds."

"He collapsed onto the grass like a half-empty flour sack."

"Pride is a ... seed that bears two vines, life and death."

What makes the narrator a dynamic character?

His view and attitude toward Doodle changes over time, and he feels ashamed of his actions.

He is the main character in the story.

He has a lot of character traits that make him more realistic.

He tells the story when reflecting on the tombstone.

Which statement would BEST reveal the theme of the story "The Scarlet Ibis"?

Pride & conformity can act as a destructive force.

Which would NOT help support the theme that conformity & pride can act as a destructive force?

Doodle and his brother being cheered for their success in getting Doodle to stand up.

Doodle's appreciation of the ibis in contrast to the family mocking him.

The narrator discussing his pride to make doodle like other boys and holding him as a slave.

Doodle's death and the brother calling him his scarlet ibis

How is the title "The Scarlet Ibis" symbolic of Doodle?

Both Doodle and the ibis are out of place and destroyed by differences.

Both Doodle and the ibis appreciate beauty.

Both Doodle and the ibis like the clove of seasons.

Both Doodle and the ibis illustrate that it's okay to be different.

Read the following passage: My lies were scary, involved, and usually pointless, but Doodle's were twice as crazy. People in his stories all had wings and flew wherever they wanted to go. His favorite lie was about a boy named Peter who had a pet peacock with a ten-foot tail. Peter wore a golden robe that glittered so brightly that when he walked through the sunflowers they turned away from the sun to face him. When Peter was ready to go to sleep, the peacock spread his magnificent tail, enfolding the boy gently like a closing go-to-sleep flower, burying him in the glorious iridescent,rustling vortex. Yes, I must admit it. Doodle could beat me lying. What does it NOT reveal?

Doodle's desire for owning birds

Doodle's longing for acceptance and freedom

The narrator's reflective appreciation for Doodle

Which of the following citations would NOT help in support of characterizing Aunt Nicey as religious?

"Dead birds is bad luck," said Aunt Nicey, poking her head from the kitchen door. "Specially red dead birds!"

Aunt Nicey said that, after so much talk, if we produced anything less tremendous than the Resurrection, she was going to be disappointed.

Everybody thought he was going to die-everybody except Aunt Nicey, who had delivered him. She said he would live because he was born in a caul, and cauls were made from Jesus' nightgown.

Then Mama began to cry and ran over to him, hugging him and kissing him. Daddy hugged him too, so I went to Aunt Nicey, who was thanks praying in the doorway, and began to waltz her around.

Which passage would NOT support characterizing Doodle as creative, sensitive, or fragile?

"I haven't heard a rain frog," said Mama, who believed in signs, as she served the bread around the table. "I did," declared Doodle. "Down in the swamp-" "He didn't," I said contrarily. "You did, eh?" said Daddy, ignoring my denial. "I certainly did," Doodle reiterated, scowling at me over the top of his iced-tea glass, and we were quiet again.

I pulled the go-cart through the saw-tooth fern, down into the green dimness where the palmetto fronds whispered by the stream. I lifted him out and set him down in the soft rubber grass beside a tall pine. His eyes were round with wonder as he gazed about him, and his little hands began to stroke the rubber grass. Then he began to cry. “For heaven’s sake, what’s the matter?” I asked, annoyed. “It’s so pretty,” he said. “So pretty, pretty, pretty.”

Yes, I must admit it. Doodle could beat me lying.

At first I just paraded him up and down the piazza, but then he started crying to be taken out into the yard, and it ended up by my having to lug him wherever I went. If I so much as picked up my cap, he'd start crying to go with me and Mama would call from where she was, "Take Doodle with you."

Which passage BEST demonstrates diction creating a somber tone?

It was in the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree. The flower garden was strained with rotting brown magnolia petals and ironweeds grew rank amid the purple phlox. The five o'clocks by the chimney still marked time, but the oriole nest in the elm was untenanted and rocked back and forth like an empty cradle. The last graveyard flowers were blooming, and their smell drifted across the cotton field and through every room of our house, speaking softy the names of our dead.

When he was two, if you laid him on his stomach, he began to move himself, straining terribly. The doctor said that with his weak heart this strain would probably kill him, but it didn't. Trembling, he'd push himself up, turning first red, then a soft purple, and finally collapse back onto the bed like an old worn-out doll. I can still see Mama watching him, her hand pressed tight across her mouth, her eyes wide and unblinking. But he learned to crawl (it was his third winter), and we brought him out of the front bedroom, putting him on the rug before the fireplace. For the first time he became one of us.

Finally one day, after many weeks of practicing, he stood alone for a few seconds. When he fell, I grabbed him in my arms and hugged him, our laughter pealing through the swamp like a ringing bell. Now we knew it could be done. Hope no longer hid in the dark palmetto thicket but perched like a cardinal in the lacy toothbrush tree, brilliantly visible. "Yes, yes," I cried, and he cried it too, and the grass beneath us was soft and the smell of the swamp was sweet

Once I had succeeded in teaching Doodle to walk, I began to believe in my own infallibility, and I prepared a terrific development program for him, unknown to Mama and Daddy, of course. I would teach him to run, to swim, to climb trees, and to fight. He, too, now believed in my infallibility, so we set the deadline for these accomplishments less that a year away, when, it had been decided, Doodle could start to school.

Which passage best marks the climax of the story?

The knowledge that our plans had come to nothing was bitter, and that streak of cruelty within me awakened. I ran as fast as I could, leaving him far behind with a wall of rain dividing us. Soon I could hear his voice no more.

At that moment, the bird began to flutter. It tumbled down through the bleeding tree and landed at our feet with a thud. Its graceful neck jerked twice and then straightened out, and the bird was still. It lay on the earth like a broken vase of red flowers, and even death could not mar its beauty.

There is inside me (and with sadness I have seen it in others) a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love. And at times I was mean to Doodle. One time I showed him his casket, telling him how we all believed he would die. When I made him touch the casket, he screamed. And even when we were outside in the bright sunshine he clung to me, crying, "Don't leave me, Brother! Don't leave me!"

When Doodle was five years old, I was embarrassed at having a brother of that age who couldn’t walk, so I set out to teach him, down in Old Woman Swamp

Which sentence best describes the relationship between the exposition and characterization development in the story?

It sets the somber, regretful, and melancholic tone of the narrator through the literary device of flashback that contrasts with his attitude toward his Brother throughout the plot.

It gives specific details to the setting of the story -- a rural residence in Florida around 1911-1918 -- which in turn helps progress the plot.

It introduces the central metaphor and symbol of the story -- the scarlet ibis -- which helps the reader make connections to the theme throughout the plot.

It demonstrates Jame's Hurst's eloquent visual style, developed through his usage of poetic sound devices, similes, and sensory language.

How would the story be MOST different if it was told from Doodle's point of view?

The tone of the narrator would be less regretful.

The setting would be described with fewer uses of imagery.

The characterization of Mamma and Daddy would be more developed.

The climax of the story would be at a different event than Brother running away from him in the rain.

Scarlet Ibis Quiz

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Read the following passage, and make an inference on Doodle's parents. "...when he was three months old Mama and Daddy decided they might as well name him."

Doodle's parents did not believe in naming a child until three months old.

Doodle's parents have trouble coming up with names.

Doodle's parents did not expect him to live, so they did not give him a name beforehand.

Doodle chose not to be named.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Identify the literary device used in the following passage: "They named him William Armstrong, which was like tying a big tail on a small kite."

simile

metaphor

personification

allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What does the word "imminent" mean as used in the following passage: "Wtih success so imminent, we decided not to tell anyone until he could actually walk."

spread throughout

condition of being unlikely to fail

likely to happen soon

insecurely

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Read the following passage and state what the narrator's actions indirectly reveal about his attitude toward Doodle: "One day I took him up to the barn loft and showed him his casket, telling him how we had all believed he would die... Doodle said, 'It's not mine.' 'It is, ' I said. 'And before I'll help you down from the loft, you're going to have to touch it.' "

The narrator's deep rooted resentment & embarrassement for Doodle.

The narrator's need to have authority over Doodle.

The narrator's excitement over Doodle's casket.

The narrator's love for Doodle.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How does the setting of the story affect Doodle's parents' attitude toward him at birth?

Medicine was not as advanced back then in 1918 as it is today; therefore, Doodle's parents disregarded him, doubting that he would survive long.

With the harsh storms, Doodle's parents thought he would not survive.

Doodle's parents could not feed him because of the blight.

Naming second children at birth was not customary.

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What does the word infallibility mean as used in the following passage? "Once I had succeeded in teaching Doodle to walk, I began to believe in my own infallibility and I prepared a terrific development program for him."

inability to be wrong or fail

insecurely

likely to happen soon

opinion that differed from that of the orthodox religion / church.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Read the following passage, and choose which word does NOT add to the diction showing both Doodle's limitiations and perseverance: "When he was two, if you laid him on his stomach, he began to try to move himself straining terribly. The doctor said that with his weak heart this strain would probably kill him, but it didn't. Trembling...he'd push himself up, turning first read, then a soft purple, and finalliy collapse."

strain

push

collapse

laid

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

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Scarlet Ibis Quiz

Read the following passage, and make an inference on Doodle's parents. "...when he was three months old Mama and Daddy decided they might as well name him."

Identify the literary device used in the following passage: "They named him William Armstrong, which was like tying a big tail on a small kite."

What does the word "imminent" mean as used in the following passage: "Wtih success so imminent, we decided not to tell anyone until he could actually walk."

How does the setting of the story affect Doodle's parents' attitude toward him at birth?

What does the word infallibility mean as used in the following passage? "Once I had succeeded in teaching Doodle to walk, I began to believe in my own infallibility and I prepared a terrific development program for him."

Which of the following examples is NOT a symbol of death in "The Scarlet Ibis"?

What does the word "precariously" mean as used in the following passage? "On the topmost branch a bird the size of a chicken, with scarlet feathers and long legs, was perched precariously."

Which is NOT a simile?

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