Setting and Point of View
This is where the story takes place.
What is setting?
This is the storyline/events that take place in the story.
What is plot?
When a writer is able to create a picture in your head using descriptive and figurative language in the story.
What is imagery?
The protagonist (main character) of "The Book Thief.
Who is Liesel Meminger?
Where and who with did Liesel learn to read?
What is in the basement with Papa?
The person whose eyes we are seeing the story through.
What is point of view?
This is the recurring idea throughout the story.
What is theme?
This is a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
This is the Jewish man who takes refuge with Liesel's family.
Who is Max Vandenburg?
This is the street the Hubermanns live on.
What is Himmel Street?
"I went to the library today," is an example of what point of view?
What is first person?
This is the opposition between characters that occur in the plot.
What is conflict?
This is a comparison between two things that aren't literally alike but do have something in common.
What is a metaphor?
This is Liesel's best friend. Often described with his blonde hair, blue eyes, athletic and educational talents.
Who is Rudy Steiner?
What is a dump truck?
"You dropped your book," is an example of what point of view?
What is second person?
This is how conflict is solved in the plot.
What is resolution?
This is when you give a not-human object, human behaviors, actions, or thoughts.
What is personification?
This is the narrator of "The Book Thief".
Who is Death?
This is the time period when "The Book Thief" takes place.
What is the 1930s?
If I am standing in Molching (fiction town in "The Book Thief"), where am I?
What is Germany?
True of False, The theme is a central message of the story.
What is true?
This is when a word describes a sound or mimics the sound of the object or action. ex. boom! gulp!
What is onomatopoeia?
What is the Grave Digger's Handbook?
This is Death's favorite colored sky.
What is chocolate covered?