A Raisin in the Sun
The thing that arrives in the mail that initiates the conflict for the Younger family.
What is a $10,000 life insurance check for Walter Senior.
The connection between Dana and Rufus.
Rufus is the great great grandfather of Dana (or something similar). He pulls her back in time when his life is at risk.
Comparing two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
What is simile?
He is the narrator of the story.
Who is Nick Carraway?
The only letter that does not appear in any U.S. state name.
What is Q?
The character who tries to prevent the Youngers from moving for "the good" of everyone.
Who is Karl Lindberg?
Kevin's experience in the early 1800s in Maryland.
What is (answers may vary)?
- tutors Rufus
- gets left behind for 5 years
- put in a "powerful position"
- helps slaves to escape
The repeating of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
The name of the following place, described as "...a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air."
What is the Valley of Ashes?
The percentage of the general population that is left handed.
What is 10%?
Walter's dream. (which he thinks he will reach through owning a liquor store...)
What is to provide for his family, live comfortably, send his son to college?
The person Rufus "loves" and who he ultimately destroys.
Who is Alice?
The following is an example of what type of poem:
Thick blankets of snow
snuggling the flowerbeds
with a winter wrap.
What is haiku?
He said: "Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white."
Who is Tom Buchanan?
The individual on the American Dollar coin.
Who is Sacajawea?
A major conflict between Beneatha and Mama.
What is religion? (beliefs about what is needed to be happy/successful)
Name one of the seven major themes we tracked while reading Kindred.
What is Race, Gender, Power, Marriage, Education, Inheritance, Survival?
opposites placed next to each other to heighten the contrast
What is juxtaposition?
The object to which Wilson says "'God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!"
What is the billboard of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg?
The age Mozart began composing.
What is 5 years old?
What is the potted plant?
Dana's reason for trying to run away from the Weylin Plantation.
What is Rufus's lie about sending the letters?
the emotion(s) that a poem carries
What is tone?
The color associated with Daisy in the past.
What is white?
The country with the most pyramids in the world.
What is Sudan?