English (Literary Devices)
Achebe compares Okonkwo’s fame to “a bush-fire in the harmattan,” emphasizing how quickly it spreads and how dangerous it can be.
What is a simile?
A rectangle has a length of 48 inches and a width of 40 inches. Using the Pythagorean theorem, find the length of the diagonal to the nearest inch.
What is 62 inches?
This conflict began when Britain used military force to protect its profitable opium trade with China, leading to the opening of Chinese ports to foreign powers.
What is the Opium War?
This property of water explains why it can dissolve many ionic and polar substances.
What is polarity?
This basketball skill helps a player protect the ball from a defender by using their body.
What is shielding (or protecting the ball)?
When Okonkwo is sent to Mbanta, Achebe describes him as “a fish on a dry sandy beach” to show how helpless and out of place he feels.
What is a metaphor?
This mathematical theorem is used to find the length of the diagonal of a rectangle when the length and width are known.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
This 18th-century movement argued that people are born with natural rights and that governments exist to protect those rights.
What is the enlightenment?
During a lightning strike, air becomes ionized, allowing electricity to flow because electrons are this.
What is stripped from atoms (or freed from atoms)?
When playing a fluency drill, what should every musician match exactly to stay together as an ensemble?
What is tempo?
The repeated description of yams as “the king of crops” reveals ideas about masculinity, status, and success in Igbo society.
What is symbolism?
A man who is 5 feet 9 inches tall casts a shadow that is 8 feet 6 inches long. Using trigonometry, find the angle of elevation from the end of the shadow to the top of the man’s head, to the nearest tenth of a degree.
What is 34.1 degrees?
Inspired by Enlightenment ideas and the French Revolution, enslaved people in the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue led this successful revolt against colonial rule.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This force explains why opposite charges attract and like charges repel.
What is electrostatic force?
In floor hockey, this rule requires players to keep their sticks below their waist to prevent injuries.
What is the high-sticking rule?
Across scenes involving Unoka, Ikemefuna, and Nwoye, Achebe repeatedly emphasizes Okonkwo’s fear of weakness and obsession with strength to shape the reader’s understanding of his character.
What is repetition?
If ∠A and ∠B are complementary angles in a right triangle, which trigonometric relationship must always be true?
What is sin ∠A = cos ∠B?
Joseph Stalin maintained control of the Soviet Union by limiting individual freedoms and using fear to suppress opposition, which best illustrates which Enduring Issue?
What is abuse of power?
Which statement best explains why water molecules are attracted to each other but not to nonpolar molecules like oxygen gas?
What is water has partial charges that allow intermolecular attraction? Acceptable as well: water is polar; nonpolar molecules lack charge separation
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Early warnings from the Oracle, Okonkwo’s punishment after Ezeudu’s funeral, and Obierika’s doubts about strict tradition all prepare the reader for Okonkwo’s final outcome.
What is foreshadowing?
Which expression is equivalent to sin 57° based on cofunction identities?
What is cos 33°?
Which enduring issue best explains how events like the Opium Wars, Boxer Rebellion, Armenian Genocide, and Treaty of Versailles all contributed to long-term global conflict?
What is imperialism? (Also Power; Nationalism; Conflict; Human Rights Violation)
Why does a spark occur when a charged object comes close to another object, even without touching it?
What is electrostatic forces cause the movement of charged particles through ionized air?
Acceptable answers: electrons move due to electric attraction after air becomes ionized
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