Literary Terms with THE JOY LUCK CLUB

In the chapter "Best Quality", whose POINT OF VIEW is utilized?

• Jing-Mei

  First Person

• Suyuan

  Third Person

  Limited

• Jing-mei

  Third Person

  Limited

• Suyuan

  Third Person

  Omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

Who is the PROTAGONIST in the story The Joy Luck Club?

• Jing-mei

• Suyuan

• An-mei's mother

• Popo

“And when my brother shouted that Auntie was a talking chicken without a head, she pushed my brother against the gate and spat on his face”

What literary device is this?

• simile

• metaphor

• irony

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

“I tried to keep very still, but my heart felt like crickets scratching to get out of a cage”

What literary device is this?

• simile

• metaphor

• irony

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

“I thought up Joy Luck on a summer night that was so hot even the moths fainted to the ground, their wings were so heavy with the damp heat”

What literary device is this?

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

“The chess board seemed to hold elaborate secrets waiting to be untangled."

What literary device is used to describe the chess board?

• imagery

• personification

• simile

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Jing-mei recalls the time when Suyuan gave her a jade pendant necklace.

After Suyuan's death, Jing-mei realizes that the jade represented Suyuan's love for her.

What literary device is the JADE pendant?

• personification

• irony

• symbolism

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Suyuan talks about the Japanese invading China. What literary device is this?

• This is an allusion, referencing WWII

• Foreshadowing that Suyuan will die

• Irony because she fled death and then dies anyway

• Metaphor for the way her life has always been in conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Events in The Joy Luck Club occur in San Francisco and China, in the 1940s and in the 1980s.

What is this establishing?

• Climax

• Setting

• Rising Action

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the THEMATIC CONFLICT in The Joy Luck Club?

• Japanese and Chinese

• Mothers and daughters not understanding each other.

• Jing-mei and Rose Hsu

• Jing-mei and her father

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3