Symbolism
In Animal Farm, Old Major's skull is a symbol for this.
What is revolution/Animalism?
In "There Will Come Soft Rains" the event of the house burning down can support this theme.
What is nature will go on without us?
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These two types of figurative language are comparisons made between two similar things.
What are simile and metaphor?
This type of characterization has to be inferred from clues and evidence from a story. It an be inferred from actions and reactions of the characters.
What is indirect characterization?
What type of figurative language is represented below?
The music meandered across the park to her ears. She had to follow it to the source.
What is personification?
In the "The Black Cat," this is what the second cat could be considered a symbol of.
What is the narrator's guilt?
In The Lion King, the fact that Simba faces off with Scare and takes his rightful place as king could create this theme?
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What is you must step up and take control of your life?
This term relates to hints embedded into the story that indicate something might happen further on into the story.
What is foreshadowing?
This type of characterization is when the author explicitly states a quality of a character.
What is direct characterization?
What is the inciting incident or the event that begins the rising action in Animal Farm?
When Old Major gives his speech OR when the animals revolt and take over the farm?
"Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket" is about a man struggling to save his data recorded on a sheet of paper after it flies out the window. In relation to his job, this could be something the paper represents.
What is his future success/a promotion?
In the fable "The Crow and the Pitcher" at first the crow is unable to get a drink of the water in the pitcher because the water level is too low. He persists though and uses pebbles to raise the water level. This is a theme that could work for this fable.
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What is never give up, work smarter not harder?
This term is when the regular narrative of the story is interrupted by a look back at something in the past relevant to the storyline.
What is foreshadowing?
This type of characterization is used in the example below. Also, this is a trait one of the characters possesses considering that type of characterization.
The young woman leaned over and help the older woman pick up the items that fell out of her purse.
What is indirect characterization and that she is kind/helpful?
In "There Will Come Soft Rains" this is the main conflict if the house is considered as a main character.
What is character versus nature (the house burning down)?
In "There Will Come Soft Rains" what could the dog represent in relation to what happen or what has perished from the world?
What is the last living connection to humankind?
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This could be a theme for "The Black Cat" if the reader focuses on the cat giving away the hiding place of the wife's corpse.
What is a person must pay for their evil ways?
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Squealer is the physical embodiment of this concept.
What is propaganda?
This type of characterization is used in the example below.
The doctor was tall and unnaturally thin. He looked almost as sickly as the patient that lay in the bed before him.
What is direct characterization?
These three things are what about a character could represent the "self" part of an internal conflict.
You must name all three!
What are thoughts, feelings, or decisions?
In Animal Farm, the windmill that the animals built could represent this in relation to what it will be used for.
What is independence from man, self-sufficiency, progress?
Keeping in mind that Animal Farm is an allegory, what possible theme could be infer through the fact that the pigs become indistinguishable from the humans at the end?
What is power corrupts?
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Animal Farm is related to this term in which a story has a literal level of understanding, as well as a symbolic/representative level of understanding often related to real people and events.
What is an allegory?
This is a character trait that you could infer from the following example.
The teacher stood in front of the class, arms crossed, tapping her foot.
What is angry/annoyed?
FINAL JEOPARDY!
Write down your wager.
In this scene from the Blues Brothers, Jake and Elwood are attempting to recruit one of their old band members to join them. What can you infer about them or the former member of their band (the maî·tre d')? Why?