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The Graveyard Book Literary Elements

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  • What is the point of view of the story?
    Third person limited (we are limited to what Bod is feeling and thinking)
  • Who is the protagonist of the Graveyard Book?
    Bod (Nobody Owens)
  • Who is the antagonist in the Graveyard Book?
    so far, the Man Jack. Perhaps also someone he is working for.
  • Abanazer Bolger says to Tom Hustings that he has two treasures. He is talking about the brooch and the boy. Using "treasure" for the boy is a...
    metaphor
  • Chapter 1: "he would need to [call on] certain of the townsfolk, people who would be his eyes and ears in the town" is an example of ...
    a metaphor
  • Chapter 5: Her dress was "like cobwebs in the dew" - This is a...
    simile
  • What does the Macabray symbolise?
    a meeting of the living and the dead and harmony between them
  • Who is telling the story?
    An outside narrator
  • Chapter 5: The snow is described as " a cold feather-touch". This is a ...
    metaphor
  • What does the Lady on the Grey symbolise?
    death
  • Chapter 1: "The knife had done almost everything it was brought to that house to do" - this is an example of...
    personification. The knife is treated like a person
  • Chapter 1: "The fog wreathed around him like a long-lost friend" is an example of...
    a simile
  • What do the clothes symbolise that Bod gets from Silas when he is 10?
    that Bod is different, that he will one day leave the Graveyard
  • Chapter 1: "He growled in the back of his throat, like a beast of prey, angry and frustrated" is an example of...
    a simile
  • What do the white flowers in winter symbolise?
    hope, life, and the Macabray
  • Chapter 1: "He could smell the child: a milky smell, like chocolate chip cookies" - this is an example of...
    a simile
  • Chapter 1 "His shoes...were polished to such a shine that they looked like dark mirrors" - this is an example of...
    a simile
  • What does the graveyard gate symbolise?
    Both safety and a boundary
  • When Bod goes to check out Potter's Field, he grabs a red apple and then falls into Potter's Field. What do you think the apple symbolises?
    curiosity, doing something forbidden, temptation
  • What does a tombstone symbolise for Liza?
    being remembered, being respected, being loved
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