This board helps players review Literature · J.D. Salinger through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Characters, Plot, Themes, Symbols, Trivia & Quotes. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.
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The 17-year-old narrator.
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Holden Caulfield
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The boarding school Holden gets expelled from.
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Pencey Prep
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The word Holden uses for fake or insincere people.
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Phony / phoniness
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What Holden's red hunting hat symbolizes.
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Individuality / protection / identity
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Year published.
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1951
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The novel's narrative point of view.
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First-person, stream of consciousness
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Characters
- $100 — The 17-year-old narrator.
- Holden Caulfield
- $200 — Holden's beloved little sister.
- Phoebe
- $300 — Holden's deceased younger brother.
- Allie
- $400 — Holden's older brother who writes in Hollywood.
- D.B.
- $500 — The 'phony' roommate at Pencey.
- Stradlater
Plot
- $100 — The boarding school Holden gets expelled from.
- Pencey Prep
- $200 — The city Holden wanders for several days.
- New York City
- $300 — The number of days the main events span.
- About 3 days
- $400 — Where Holden is telling the story from.
- A mental hospital / sanitarium
- $500 — Who Holden visits at the end and watches on a carousel.
- Phoebe
Themes
- $100 — The word Holden uses for fake or insincere people.
- Phony / phoniness
- $200 — Holden's deep desire to protect this state in children.
- Innocence
- $300 — Theme of feeling cut off from others.
- Alienation / isolation
- $400 — Holden's resistance to becoming an adult.
- Coming of age (refusal to grow up)
- $500 — The grief that haunts Holden throughout.
- Loss / death (Allie)
Symbols
- $100 — What Holden's red hunting hat symbolizes.
- Individuality / protection / identity
- $200 — The ducks in Central Park symbolize this question.
- Where do we go in hard times / survival
- $300 — The 'catcher in the rye' fantasy symbolizes this.
- His wish to save kids from losing innocence
- $400 — The Museum of Natural History symbolizes this.
- Frozen, unchanging childhood
- $500 — Allie's baseball glove symbolizes this.
- Holden's lost innocence and love
Trivia & Quotes
- $100 — Year published.
- 1951
- $200 — Author who lived as a recluse after fame.
- J.D. Salinger
- $300 — Holden mishears a Robert Burns lyric — 'if a body ___ a body coming through the rye'.
- Meet (not 'catch')
- $400 — Holden's age in the novel.
- 16 (telling the story at 17)
- $500 — Holden's signature insult for everyone.
- 'Phony'
Narration & Devices
- $100 — The novel's narrative point of view.
- First-person, stream of consciousness
- $200 — The frame — Holden tells the story from where?
- A mental institution in California
- $300 — The casual, slangy way Holden speaks is called this.
- Colloquial / vernacular voice
- $400 — The novel often appears on this list, due to censorship attempts.
- Most banned/challenged books
- $500 — The genre Holden's journey belongs to.
- Bildungsroman / coming-of-age
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