The first question of two main questions we ask when close reading
What is "What is Presented to Us?"
Mr. Scully's first name
What is "Pat?"
A malnourished or fragile romance
What is Skinny Love?
Situational, _____, and moral ironies are themes in A California Holiday
What is "Religious Irony?"
Vladek insists that Art's hanger is made from this material
What is a wooden hanger?
The third story's main goal in a Three-Story Thesis
What is Broader Significance?
Art's comic about losing his mother
What is "The Prisoner on Hell Planet?"
A listening device...or something that you were while I was a kid
What is a phonograph
Some of Vladek's love interests include: Mala, _____, and Anja
Who is Lucia?
Both part of a title and a concept in Common Sense, Thomas Paine HATES this form of government, where kingship is passed down from generation to generation.
What is Hereditary Succession?
What is 3rd person Omniscient?
Our main character was "minding his own" in what seat of the car?
What is the backseat?
The example game used by Dan Pink to illustrate his point in The Puzzle of Motivation
What is the Candle Problem?
I told you to be patient, ____, fine, and kind
What is balanced?
A Proper Noun that appears in both Ear Hustle and A California Holiday
What is San Quentin?
A group of words that contain both a subject and a predicate
What is a clause?
Vladek expended lots of energy on this machine while telling his story
What is the Exercise Bike?
These are the three key skills that organizations must use, according to Dan Pink
Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose
The main character from our non-American short film is named _____ Scrooge
Who is Ebenezer?
His belief is challenged by David Brooks in The Olympic Contradiction
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A noun that usually follows and renames or describes another noun or noun phrase
What is an appositive?
This was the author of A California Holiday's occupation
What is a Reporter?
Three words repeated over again in Skinny Love's refrain
What is "I told you?"
Some chapter titles incude The Sheik, ____, Prisoner of War, the Noose Tightens, Maus Holes, and ______
What is "The Honeymoon" and "Mouse Traps?"
What is Fort Romper?