Flowers for Algernon Flashcards
Why is Charlie unable to complete his first Inkblot test?
He is unable to complete his first Inkblot test because he doesn’t understand what he is supposed to see.
Charlie competes with Algernon to
Compare levels of intelligence
Does Charlie get that Joe and Frank are being mean to him?
No
True or False?
The reason the author alludes that Charlie’s life is like Robinson Crusoe is to compare his experience of being isolated to Crusoe’s experience. (Allusion)
True
Algernon Dies. What does this foreshadow?
This foreshadows that Charlie will die too
True or False?
Sometimes a person’s greatest wish can cost him/her dearly. This is what the central idea means.
True
True or False?
The reason the author alludes that Charlie’s life is like Paradise Islands to compare his experience of being isolated. (Personification)
False
The dishwasher boy is a symbol of
Charlie’s former self
Charlie realizes the true feelings of his friends because
They laugh at him, get him drunk, and trips him when dances with Ellen
Before the operation Charlie’s impression of his friends are that they laugh with him a lot and treat him nicely. Does Charlie like his so called “Friends” now after he gotten the operation?
No, Charlie now knows that they were making fun of him and being mean.
“I have often reread my progress reports, and seen the illiteracy, the childish naivete, the mind of low intelligence peering from a dark room, through the keyhole, at the dazzling light outside.” What type of Figurative language is this?
A. Simile
B. Personification
C. Hyperbole
D. Metaphor
E. Allusion
D. Metaphor
This description of Charlie’s newfound intelligence to peering through the keyhole of a darkened room.
After Charlie mistakenly returns to Ms. Kinnian’s classroom, he writes, “I reely pulled a Charlie Gordon that time.” This indicates?
This indicates Charlie is forgetting everything about the operation and its results.
