"...and they found her on her solitary bed, curled up like a shrimp." Pg. 371
What is Simile?
100
“... gave her not only the money from the special raffle, but also what he had managed to put aside over the previous months and what little had received from the sale of the piano, the clavichord...” P. 378
What is Aureliano Segundo?
100
“‘Poor great-great-grandmother, she died of old age’” (Marquez 368).
What did Amaranta Ursula say?
100
“The indolence of the people was in contrast to the veracity of oblivion, which little by little was undermining memories in a pitiless way” P. 371
What does indolence mean? What is laziness/avoiding activities?
100
Describe the effects of the Buendias House during the plague rain?
What is destroyed?
200
“ ... because she noticed during those days a certain confusion in nature: the roses selled like goose foot, a pod of chickpeas fell down and the beans lay on the ground in a perfect geometrical pattern in the shape of a starfish, and at night she saw a row of luminous orange disks pass across the sky.” pg. 367
What is magical realism?
200
“___ cried in lamentation when she discovered that for more than three years she had been a plaything for the children. She washed her painted face, took off the strips of brightly colored cloth, the dried lizards and frogs” P. 359
Who is Ursula?
200
“ There is no humiliation that a concubine does not deserve” (Marquez 381).
What did Fernanda say?
200
“Fernanda interpreted the disappearance as a reprisal by the invisible doctors” p. 377
What does “Reprisal mean?” What is to retaliate/ have a comeback?
200
“The bodies were placed in identical coffins” pg. 381
Who is Aureliano the second and Jose Arcadio the second?
300
“ … in her last months she was a cherry raisin lost inside of her nightgown and the arm that she always kept raised looked like the paw of a marimonda monkey.” pg. 368
What is simile and/or metaphor?
(double points if they say both)
300
“She scolded Jose Arcadio Segundo as if he were a child and insisted that he take a bath and shave and lend a hand in fixing up the house. He shouted that there was no human power capable of making him go out because he did not want to see the train with two hundred cards loaded with dead people” P. 361
Who is Ursula?
300
“‘Put yourself in my place, imagine how much I must have loved him to put up with this humiliation’” (Marquez 380)
What did Petra Cotes say?
300
“Ursula cried in lamentation when she discovered that for more than three years she had been a plaything for the children” p.359
What does lamentation mean? The passionate expression of grief or sorrow?
300
What two characters died at the exact same time but in different places?
Who is Fernanda’s twin brother and Jose Acardio Segundo?
400
“ He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.” pg. 365
What is hyperbole?
400
“She forgot to give him the patent leather shoes that he wanted to wear in his coffin. So when she heard that he died, she dressed in black, wrapped the shoes up in a newspaper” P. 380
Who is Petra Cotes?
400
“‘Here’s Divine Providence, don’t let it get away, because it only comes every hundred years’” (Marquez 377).
What did Aureliano Segundo say?
400
“...so he conceived the idea of organizing the fabulous raffles of the lands destroyed by the deluge” p.378
What does deluge mean? What is a severe flood?
400
“... and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love.” pg. 365
Who is Petra Cotes?
500
“She had to hold on to the doorjamb so that the stench would not knock her over…” p.361
What is hyperbole?
500
“In fulfillment of her promise, ___ cut the throat of Jose Arcadio Segundo's corpse with a kitchen knife to be sure that they would not bury him alive” P. 381
Who is Santa Sofía de La Piedad?
500
“‘A person can’t live in neglect like this, if we go on like this we’ll devoured by animals’” (Marquez 360)
What did Aureliano Segundo say?
500
“...but unlike the inquisitive and sometimes clairvoyant look that the colonel had at his age, his look was blinking and somewhat distracted.” p.366
What does clairvoyant mean? What is the ability to see events in the future beyond normal abilities?
500
Who’s death symbolizes the end of the Buendia family and began a series of deaths that followed?