The Giver
Essay Writing
Mix It Up
Poetry
Reading
100
The protagonist of The Giver.
Who is Jonas?
100
The term used to define the place where you put the sources you used in an essay.
What is a Works Cited page?
100
Making notes on the margins and/or on the text of a book or article.
What is annotating?
100
What actually occurs or is said in a poem, without expanding into "deeper" meaning.
What is literal meaning?
100
The character who opposes the hero or creates the conflict.
What is an antagonist?
200
Jonas's job title.
What is The Receiver of Memory?
200
A statement that addresses the main focus you want to emphasize in your paper? (It appears in the last sentence of your introductory paragraph.)
What is a thesis statement?
200
Description that appeals to at least one of the five senses.
What are sensory details?
200
The name of the literary device that is something in itself, and it also suggests something deeper.
What is a symbol?
200
The only type of internal conflict.
What is Man vs Self?
300
What Jonas starts to see in chapter 12.
What are colors?
300
A paragraph that makes your argumentative essay stronger by including it and then proving it wrong.
What is a counterclaim?
300
The author's attitude towards his or her subject.
What is tone?
300
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
300
A moment of great intensity in the plot of a literary work, generally bringing events to a head and leading to the conclusion.
What is climax?
400
The question Jonas asks that makes his parents uncomfortable.
What is, DO YOU LOVE ME? (needy much?)
400
Be courteous and provide thoughtful comments about another person's paper.
What are the most important things to do in a peer review?
400
The literary device used in the following sentence: "When the shepherd's whistle releases her, she's off like an arrow running east."
What is simile?
400
The feeling you get from a word, not to be taken literally.
What is connotation?
400
A conversational passage in a narrative or play used to advance the plot or develop the characters.
What is dialogue?
500
The physical feature that The Giver, Jonas, and Gabriel all have in common.
What is grey eyes?
500
Double-spaced, 12 pt Times New Roman, Works Cited, title, heading, and one-inch margins.
What is MLA format?
500
The literary device used in the following sentence: "His words were a dagger stabbing at my heart."
What is metaphor?
500
A reference, within a literary work, to another work of fiction, a film, a piece of art, or even a real event.
What is an allusion?
500
The meaning of a story. What it's really about deep down.
What is theme?