"In Another Country"
"Winter Dreams"
"The Turtle"
Literary Terms
Miscellaneous
100
This is the author of "In Another Country."
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
100
Author of "Winter Dreams."
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
100
Author of "The Turtle."
Who is John Steinbeck?
100
The main character in the story.
Who is the protagonist?
100
Sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
200
This character lost his wife to pneumonia and believes that marriage is a waste of time.
Who is Signor Maggiore (The Major)?
200
Two examples of the "glittery things" Dexter wants the most in life.
What are... 1. Wealth & Money 2. High social status
200
Why the author uses "sleeping life" to describe the seeds.
What is "sleeping life" describes the seeds because it suggests that life is full of potential and could wake up at any moment?
200
This is a struggle between a character and an outside force (person or thing).
What is an external conflict?
200
The "attention grabber" in the story; An event that provokes the reader.
What is the initiating event?
300
Reason why grammar is so important to the major.
What is grammar provides stability, rules and structure; the war is full of chaos?
300
Reason Dexter chooses the university in the East over the State University.
What is Dexter wanted to go to an Ivy league school with high-class students that had a lot of money; he was chasing his winter dreams?
300
The highway symbolizes this in the story.
What are all of the obstacles that people had to face in the Great Depression?
300
This type of narrator is not in the story, but he or she knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story.
What is 3rd person omniscient narrator?
300
Many of this group of writers moved to Europe.
What are expatriates?
400
Metaphorical meaning of "In Another Country."
What is... the narrator feels distant from fellow officers. Even though they are going through the same thing and he is "friends" with them, he never really feels as if he belongs.
400
Three adjectives to describe Judy Jones as an adult.
What is... 1. Spoiled 2. Selfish 3. Vain 4. Manipulative 5. Beautiful
400
The driver of the truck symbolizes this in the story.
What are selfish people who were only concerned for themselves?
400
This type of character usually changes or grows throughout the story.
What is a dynamic character?
400
This type of writing did not follow the typical form.
What is free-verse?
500
Two ways "In Another Country" reflects the sense of disillusionment.
What is... 1. Hopelessness 2. Negativity (Major) 3. Nothing will ever get better 4. Suffering
500
This type of characterization is present in the following passage and tells us that Judy Jones is spoiled: "Dexter became involved in a heated conversation, which was concluded by Miss Jones taking one of the clubs and hitting it on the ground with violence" (Fitzgerald 747).
What is indirect characterization?
500
The turtle symbolizes this in the story.
What are the farmers who overcame the struggles of the Great Depression?
500
This type of narrator is not in the story and only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character.
What is a 3rd person limited narrator?
500
Technique of writing that portrayed the writer's thoughts and feelings connected by the character's natural association.
What is stream-of-consciousness?
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