Weegy: B. age and handicap
User: Lennie, who the author tells us likes to pet soft things, seems taken by Curley's beautiful but flirtatious wife. Which of the following literary devices does this most likely represent?
A. allusion
B. irony
C. personification
D. foreshadowing
Weegy: D. Foreshadowing
User:
Which of the following best describes how the author develops the relationship between Slim and George?
A. Within the setting of a hot cornfield, George and Slim have an argument over Curley's wife.
B. In a dialog with Slim, George confesses a secret to him.
C. George invites Slim back to the setting of the river where he and Lennie had spent the night.
D. George and Slim discover that they share a secret.
Weegy: B. In a dialog with Slim, George confesses a secret to him.
User: Lennie is characterized by the author as George's traveling companion who
A. wants desperately to go back home to live his kind aunt.
B. repeatedly pleads with George to tell him the story about the rabbits.
C. never says much of anything because he is so sad.
D. always wants to hear from George how this next job will be better than the last one.
Weegy: A. wants desperately to go back home to live his kind aunt.
User: Which of the following best illustrates the author's use of conflict to advance the plot?
A. Crooks, the stable buck, comes to find Slim.
B. Candy, the old swamper, has lost his only friend in the world: his dog.
C. Slim goes to the stable to take care of his mule.
D. Curley, suspecting Slim of being with Curley's wife, storms out to look for him.
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