Symbols
This is what the family house symbolizes in Félix Leclerc's The Family House
The family's love, memories, shared experiences, and strong connections.
This type of figurative language compares two things using the words "like" or "as," such as "as warm and clean inside as the white of the loaf."
What is a simile?
This Ontario writer used traditional Indigenous stories to teach lessons about modern issues.
Who is Basil Johnston?
Words such as "mented," "kindered," "improvident," and "slothful" are most commonly found in this type of writing.
What is older literature or traditional stories?
In The Family House, Leclerc develops an extended analogy comparing the family house to this.
What is a flying ship?
What do the Weenidgos symbolize in the short story, “Modern Cannibals of the Wilds”
They represent modern day logging companies.
The phrase "The house turned its back" is an example of this type of figurative language because it gives a human action to a house.
What is personification?
This Quebec artist became known as the "father of us all" and later had music awards named after him.
Who is Félix Leclerc?
Johnston uses this tone throughout The Weendigo to warn readers about the dangers of greed and environmental destruction.
What is a serious, cautionary, and persuasive tone?
In Leclerc's analogy, this part of a ship symbolizes the family's security, unity, and strong bond.
What is the anchor?
Security, unity, and the strong bond that keeps the family together.
What does the anchor symbolize in Leclerc's ship analogy?
The statement "The house was our kingdom" is an example of this figurative language because it directly compares the house to something else without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
Much of this author's writing drew on Ojibwe mythology to challenge stereotypes and encourage respect for Indigenous knowledge.
Who is Basil Johnston?
Words like "whine," "clash," "rip," and "thundering crashes" are examples of this literary device because they imitate real sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
According to the analysis, Leclerc most clearly states the overall message of The Family House in this part of the selection.
What is the final paragraph?
The family's journey through life, the passage of time, and the outside world.
What does the sea symbolize in The Family House?
Through the use of similes, metaphors, and personification, the author creates this overall feeling for the reader.
What are warmth, nostalgia, love, belonging, and the importance of family memories?
Although famous for music and poetry, this person considered himself primarily to be a writer and spent his later years as Quebec's unofficial poet laureate.
Who is Félix Leclerc?
Johnston refers to the trees as the "flesh" of the forest to compare logging companies to these legendary creatures.
What are the Weendigoes?
In Basil Johnston's The Weendigo, this paragraph marks the transition from the traditional Weendigo legend to the idea of the modern Weendigo represented by corporations.
What is paragraph 12?
Modern corporations driven by greed and environmental exploitation.
What do the modern Weendigoes symbolize in Modern Cannibals of the Wilds?
What is "showing, not telling"?
These Canadian figures used storytelling in different forms (one through Indigenous literature and the other through music and poetry) to shape cultural identity and address important social themes.
Who are Basil Johnston and Félix Leclerc?
By describing the forest as having "flesh," Johnston emphasizes that the environment is this kind of entity, making its destruction seem violent and inhumane.
What is a living body?
In paragraphs 15 and 16 of The Weendigo, Johnston uses this text structure to show how corporate greed damages forests, wildlife, and natural resources, leaving fewer resources for future generations.
What is cause and effect?