Identity, coming of age
New Zealand
Crime stories
the Vietnam War
Literary terms
100
At least three texts we have read in the "Coming of age" topic.
What are Eminem: "Cleanin' out my closet", Frost: "The Road Not Taken", "Wear Sunscreen", "This Be the Verse", "Reunion", "Just Like That"
100
The ritual Maori war dance
What is the Haka
100
The definition of a crime story.
What is a story where a crime and the people involved in it are central to the story
100
The part of Vietnam that the USA supported
What is South Vietnam (the government of South Vietnam)
100
The person who has written the short story or the novel.
What is the author/the writer
200
The genre of the text "Wear Sunscreen"
What is a graduation speech (written by a journalist for a newspaper)
200
The first people who came to New Zealand
What are the Polynesian people (who sailed in canoes from one of the Pacific islands to New Zealand).
200
The tough, cynical, disillusioned detective who has witnessed many brutal crimes.
What is the hard-boiled detective
200
The Author of the autobiography "Born on the Fourth of July
Who is Ron Kovic
200
When a story Begins "in the middle of the action"
What is "in medias res"
300
What the young boy in the short story "Just Like That" had to do in order to be considered a man.
What is killing kangaroos
300
The purpose of the first British people who settled in New Zealand
What is to do missionary work - to teach the Maoris about God and Jesus.
300
Another word for a detective story (where the focus is on detecting a crime)
What is a whodunnit
300
The warfare that Vietnamese Vietcong soldiers used
What is guerrilla warfare.
300
When a third person narrator can only tell the story from one person's - or a few persons' -point of view.
What is a limited point of view
400
What the poem "The Road not Taken" deals with
What is making choices and their consequences
400
The characteristics of the old Maori tribes.
What is a proud, fierce people, warriors
400
A crime story where the reader knows who the murderer is. The story focuses on his motives of committing the crime.
What is a whydunnit
400
This is what President Eisenhower in 1954 called the chain reaction that he feared would happen if Vietnam became a Communist country.
What is the domino effect.
400
A narrator that the reader cannot trust.
What is an unreliable narrator
500
The ritual a young person sometimes has to perform in order to become an adult?
What is a rite of passage
500
At least three things that characterise the Maori culture - as it has been described in the films we have watched and stories we have read:
What are their belief in the spirits of their ancestors (=their religion), a lot of alcohol, singing, a male-dominated culture, their struggle for maintaining their culture.
500
The method the detective used in the short story "Tell Me" in order to find out what had happened to the victim.
What is imagining that she had a conversation with the (dead) victim
500
What the Vietnamese call the Vietnam War
What is the American War
500
The narrator that knows everything about all the characters and what they think, and who can move freely back and forth in time.
What is an omniscient narrator
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