The American Dream and American Nightmares
Australia
Crime
Dystopian Fiction
Literary terms
100

He made the famous "I Have a Dream"-speech

Who is Martin Luther King?

100

The term used about children taken away from their parents by the white majority.

What is The Stolen Generations?

100

The typical point of view in modern crime stories

What is a first person point of view/first person narrator?

100

The meaning of the word "dystopia"

What is bad place?

100

A term used about a short story that starts in the middle of things

What is in medias res?

200

The term used about the segregation laws in the USA 1876-1965

What is Jim Crow Laws?

200

The term used by Aboriginal people about the mythical time when the world was created.

What is the Dreamtime?

200

Football fans who attend football matches to fight.

What are hooligans?

200

In the short story The Veldt the children replace their parents with this.

What is a nursery?

200

An ending which does not offer a final conclusion

What is an open ending?

300

Racist hate group founded in 1866

What is the Klu Klux Klan?

300

Kipling's poem from 1899 that expresses European ideas about colonialism.

What is The White Man's Burden?

300

Modern crime stories focus on ..... rather than plot.

What is character?

300

The name of the man on the posters in 1984

What is Big Brother?

300

A limited narrator who tells us the story from his/her own point of view using the first person.

What is a first person narrator?

400

James Truslow Adams wrote a definition of this idea in 1931

What is The American Dream?

400

The Aboriginal name for Ayers rock.

What is uluru?

400

The crime of starting a fire

What is arson?

400

The fate of Mankind in the short story "Men are Different"

What is extinction?

400

A narrator who knows everything about characters and events.

What is an omniscient narrator?


500

Anti-racist campaign that started in 2017 among NFL players.

What is Take a knee?

500

The name of the Australian president who makes a speech in 2008 in which he apologizes to the indigenous people of Australia.

What is Kevin Rudd?

500

The mild word the narrator uses about hitting Adams in the short story Adams

What is wonk?

500

Monitoring people to protect them or influence them

What is surveillance?

500

"She is the sun"

What is a metaphor?

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