1. Lit Terms
Of Mice and men

2. Foreshadow
literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that will come later in the story.
The death of an animal often foreshadows the death of someone else in a story.
The death of Candy’s dog foreshadows what?

3.  Allusion
a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature
The title comes from the poem “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns
"To a Mouse" reading

4. Theme a common thread or repeated idea
incorporated throughout a literary work.
a thought or idea that may be deep, difficult to understand, or even moralistic.
Generally has to be extracted as the reader explores the passages of a work.
Themes from the story include: Loneliness, Dreams, and Friendship

5. Allegory a narrative that serves as an extended metaphor
The Ranch is meant to be a representation of the society of the 1930’s

6. Imagery
involves one or more of your five senses (hearing, taste, touch, smell, sight)
uses a word or phrase to stimulate your memory of those senses.
The opening scene of the novella uses sensory imagery to make the setting realistic.

7. Idiom
an expression consisting of a combination of words that has a figurative meaning
“Live off the fatta the lan’.”
“Bustin a gut”
“Get the can”
“Take the rap”
“Make it stick”

8. Metaphor
Comparison between to different things with no word of comparison uses (like; as).
The one thing (Lennie’s hand) figuratively becomes the other (a big paw)
An example from the story (that also qualifies as animal imagery) is “Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water.”

10. Internal Conflict
an natural incompatibility between the two or more characters or forces
With "man against self" conflict, the struggle is internal.

11. Internal conflict
Candy is troubled by a decision he makes in the book and he later feels that he made the wrong decision.
George struggles between wanting to help Lennie and wanting a life all his own.

12. Personification
The author gives human characteristics to inanimate objects.
An example from the story: “Then gradually time awakened again and moved sluggishly on.”

13. Direct Characterization
When the author describes Candy’s wife by saying she had “full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes”, he uses direct characterization

14. Indirect Characterization
Even though the author never says it, you can tell that George is a determined man by the choices he makes.