The Giver
What is Gabriel's 'comfort object'?
A Hippo
A bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353.
The Black Death
A literary device that evokes certain feelings for the readers through word choice and setting.
Mood
Where are tropical rainforests mostly located around the world?
Tropical rainforests are located between 10°N and 10°S of the Equator, where temperatures stay near 28°C throughout the year.
or
close to the Equator
Name 5 types of poems you have written this year.
Free verse
Haiku
Cinquain
Acrostic
Slam poem
Concrete poem
What is the first memory that the Giver gives to Jonas?
The ride on the sled
What does SEEP stand for?
Social, economic, environmental and political impacts
What are the three types of irony?
Verbal, situational and dramatic
A term that means the leafy canopy of many trees and plants.
foliage
A figure of speech which consists in the repetition of an initial consonant sound in two or more nearby words.
alliteration
What game does Jonas get upset about the children playing?
War
A powerful civilization that ruled over central and southern Mexico from the 13th to the 16th century.
The Aztecs
What is the annoying name that lieutenant Kotler always calls Bruno?
"little man"
What are the four layers of the rainforest?
Emergent layer
Canopy layer
Understory layer
Rainforest floor
A poetic device that occurs when a sentence or a clause runs over from one line to the next without a pause or punctuation.
enjambment
What is The Giver's favorite memory?
Christmas
The exchange of goods and people between the Old World and the New World during the Age of Exploration
Columbian Exchange
When Bruno accidentally said Shmuel's name in front of Gretel, he said Shmuel was ____________
his imaginary friend
How do trees affect the soil?
Trees prevent the soil from drying up and being blown away (soil erosion).
or
Trees supply nutrients and increase soil fertility.
A pattern of rhyming words in a poem (ABBA, ABAB, AABB)
Rhyme scheme
What was the first painful memory that The Giver gave to Jonas?
A sunburn
What three things moved through the Silk Road?
Goods, cattle, diseases, ideas, slaves,
What type of irony is this?
[Bruno says,] "It's so unfair...I don't see why I have to be stuck over here on this side of the fence where there's no one to talk to and no one to play with, and you get to have dozens of friends and are probably playing for hours every day."
Dramatic irony
(audience’s awareness of the situation in which a work’s characters exist differs from that of the characters)
Why is the amount of rainfall high in a tropical rainforest?
Tropical rainforests are so warm and wet that they produce as much as 75 percent of their own rain through evaporation and transpiration.
An imperfect rhyme is called _______
slant rhyme