Elements of Style
This term is the author's specific choice of words or phrases. You know, like you might find in the dictionary.
What is diction?
While at the residential school, Benjamin contracts this disease which eventually kills him.
What is tuberculosis (TB)?
What is the treaty that governs the land on which Parry Sound High School is physically located?
What is the Robinson-Huron Treaty of 1850?
“You don’t need Alan Turing to break this code. Indians have moved in.” is an example of this figurative language.
What is an allusion?
The Indian Act once forbade First Nations Peoples from entering this type of entertainment establishment.
What is a pool hall?
Sentence length, punctuation, and word order are all elements of this element of style.
What is syntax?
Saul is initially ostracized by his classmates because he can do this.
What is speak English?
The book The Inconvenient Indian is somewhat dated because some of what King says hasn’t happen has now occurred. For example, he discusses how one group hasn’t apologized for residential schools but, as we discussed in class, they now have. This is that organization.
What is the Catholic Church?
Saul says, “Easier ain’t better. It’s just easier" when describing this surface.
What is the ice surface?
King is urged not to start his book with this historical figure who is often erroneously claimed to be the first European to have contact with the "new world".
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Despite what some people think, this term is not a picture in your head. Instead, it is an appeal to the 5 senses that creates a feeling.
What is imagery?
This television program changed the life of the protagonist.
What is "Hockey Night in Canada"?
According to Thomas King, these are the three categories of "Indians".
What are dead Indians, live Indians, and legal Indians?
Thomas King suggests that, because of paternalistic policies and the Indian Act, Indigenous people were the property of the federal government, and states “We were more like…. Furniture.” This is the type of figurative lanaguage used in this statement.
What is a simile?
King suggests that the Disney version of this person's story isn't really what happened.
Who is Pocahontas?
This word is often used interchangeably with the word "mood" but in English class they are different as this helps communicate the author's feelings.
What is tone?
This character scouts Saul because he thinks Saul might be good enough to play in the NHL.
Who is Jack Lanahan?
This is the significant difference between the Robinson-Huron treaty and other treaties that had been signed before.
What are annuity payments that increase based on the value of the land?
"I became a bird. An ungainly bird at first, but a creature of the air nonetheless. I leaned too far forward and had to save myself from falling, but I managed to propel myself along." This quote is from the first time Saul did this.
What is skated without a chair?
This Indian Act was enacted in this year, 9 years after Confederation.
What is 1876?
This is the archetype that we focused on in this class.
What is the trickster?
At the end of the novel, Saul watches this person play hockey.
Who is Billy, Virgil's son?
How many "calls to action" were made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
What are 94 calls to action?
“They scooped out our insides...We are not responsible for that. We are not responsible for what happened to us. None of us are. But our healing - that’s up to us.” is stated by this character.
Who is Fred Kelly?
"The Foot Soldier of Birmingham" podcast looked at some complicated issues with statues. These were the three figures in the statue in question.
Who are a dog, a police officer and a young boy?