A Monster Calls Week 5

Stories are important. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the

• information

• lies

• ending

• truth

Symbolism is

• a metaphor

• a literary technique where symbols have only one meaning

• a literary technique that uses symbols e.g., objects, words, people, places, or ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning

• a simile

If your mother can be healed the monster said, then the ____________ will do it

• yew tree

• treatment

• chemotherapy

• medicine

A theme is

• a symbol

• the only possible meaning of a text

• a central, deeper meaning of a text

• a metaphor

Conor felt suddenly light, like he was somehow starting to float in the air

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Simile

• Sense word

Conor is in a state of _______________ over his mother's terminal illness

• denial

• acceptance

• peace

• certainty

Conor's anger distances him from his friend

• Anton

• Lily

• Harry

• Sullivan

His classmates kept their distance from him too, like he was giving off a bad smell

• repetition

• simile

• metaphor

• symbol

There he'd been again, with the horror and the falling, with the terrible, terrible thing that happened at the end.

• simile

• repetition

• sense word

• metaphor

The theme of Pinocchio is

• Lies are acceptable sometimes

• Dishonesty leads to trouble

• Love conquers all

• Never grow old