The Grapes of Wrath Quiz

Read this excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath: 

[I]t's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours—being born on it, working it, dying on it. 

What literary device did Steinbeck use? Support your answer with intext evidence

Read this excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath: 

 

[The tractors] ignored hills and gulches, watercourses, fences, houses. 

What rhetorical device was used in the previous sentence? Support your answer. 

Read this excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath: 

 

He could not see the land as it was, he could not smell the land as it smelled; his feet did not stamp the clods or feel the warmth and power of the earth. He sat in an iron seat and stepped on iron pedals. 

What word best describes the tone of this excerpt? Why? 

What was John Steinbeck's main purpose in writing the Grapes of Wrath?

Mention 3 rhetorical devices used by Steinbeck in the novel The Grapes of Wrath.

describe how the title of the novel compares the feelings, emotions and situations of Americans to the process of making wine.

Why did Steinbeck choose the title "The Grapes of Wrath" for his 1939 novel?

Define Intercalary chapters.

• alternating between real and not real chapters

• alternating between fictional and realism chapters

• echoing chapters from non-fictional to fictional

• echoing chapters from the Joad family to other families

Define the term influx.

• Incursion of crowds

• a flow of water

• Fluently flowing

• Emigration of large crowds

Steinbeck used all of the following literary devices except

• Parallelism

• Repetition

• Syntax

• Diction