These are the two cultures Jhumpa Lahiri identifies with.
What are Indian and American?
100
This is another word for component.
"The computer has many components, such as the keyboard, the screen, and the tower.
What is part/piece/element?
100
This is the genre of the story. It is a genre that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is famous for.
What is Magic Realism?
100
This is another word for stench.
The dead fish gave off an unbearable stench.
What is bad smell?
100
This is the meaning of diction.
What is word choice?
200
Lahiri creates this tone when she is describing her childhood.
What is sad/depressed/negative?
200
This is another way of saying equivalent.
The price of my coffee was equivalent to the price of 2 breakfast burritos.
What is equal/same?
200
The neighbor woman decides that the old man is this.
What is an angel?
200
This is another word for frivolous.
We wasted our time talking about frivolous things instead of doing work.
What is silly/ stupid/ not serious?
200
When an author uses sesnory details and describes so well that you can picture what is happening in your head, he is practicing this.
What is imagery?
300
"In spite of the first lessons of arithmatic, one plus one did not equal two but zero, my conflicting selves always cancelling each other out." The figurative language used here is a ________.
What is a metaphor?
300
This is another word for subsequent.
I have English first, and my subsequent classes are History, Math, and Study Skills.
What is following/next?
300
It is ironic that the old man appears is dirty, old, and in bad shape. It is ironic because most people expect angels to look this way.
What is clean, pure, holy, etc?
300
This is another word for impeded.
The old man, impeded by his clumsy, enormous wings, had difficulty moving.
What is blocked?
300
This is the definition of a simile and this is an example of a simile.
What is a comparison using like or as? What is....
400
As Lahiri got older, it was more acceptable to be Indian-American. If you look at the historical context, this is the reason why it was more and more acceptable.
What is the fact that more and more Indian people (and other cultures) were immigrating to America?
400
This is another way of saying technique.
The basketball player used a special technique to win the game.
What is method/way/skill?
400
This is how the townspeople treat the old man in the story. They start off treating him one way, and then they treat him another way.
What is they treat him like an animal and then lose interest?
400
This is another word for prudence.
The priest's prudence led him to offer warnings.
What is good judgement/ cautiousness?
400
Idioms are metaphors. Metaphors are direct comparisons (ex. "You are a pig"). Give me 2 idioms.
What is ...
500
"The traditions on either side of the hyphen dwell in me like siblings, still occasionally sparring, one outshining the other depending on the day." These are the two things being compared in the simile.
What are Lahiri's two cultures (Indian and American) and two siblings?
500
You could say that Lahiri from "My Two Lives" had an ________________ experience to many Mexican-American students.
Choices: component, equivalent, subsequent, technique
What is equivalent?
500
Marquez wanted to ridicule human behavior when he wrote this story. He wanted to point out the evil in people. These are two ways in which people were evil in the story.
What is the way Pelayo treated the old man? What is the way the townspeople treated him? What is the way the priest reacted to him? What is the fact that Pelayo and Elisenda charged $ to see him? Etc.
500
This is another word for meager.
The letters were brief and offered meager advice.
What is poor/ scanty/ not full/ empty?
500
This is the difference between mood and tone.
What is mood = how the reader feels; tone = the author's attitude.