Figurative Language
The literary device where human qualities, emotions, or actions are given to inanimate objects, animals, or abstract ideas.
What is personification?
The farmer who Michael Pollan visited in chapter two.
Who is George Naylor?
What is the soybean?
A farm with many different types of crops.
What is a farm with crop diversity?
________________ (verb): be given, _____________ with, or paid.
What are receive and presented?
The literary device where the situation is the opposite of what the audience expects.
What is situational irony
A machine that drops corn seeds into the earth.
What is an eight-row planter?
A plant or animal whose parents have different traits.
What is a hybrid?
Examples of lost diversity in Iowa between 1920 and 2002.
___________ (noun): the point in time or space at which something ____________.
What are beginning and starts?
A recurring element (image, idea, sound, symbol, phrase) in an artistic work that helps develop the central theme or meaning
What is a motif
The reason why Iowa is a good place for farming.
What is "Iowa has some of the richest topsoil in the world, a layer nearly two feet thick" (Pollan 31)?
What is hybrid corn?
A crop that is produced in mass, driving out other plans and animals from production.
What is a high yield crop?
______________ (Adjective): present, _______________, or found everywhere.
What are ubiquitous and appearing?
What is, Remy the Rat cooking in the kitchen which is ironic because human usually kill rats if they are in the kitchen as they carry disease.
The two crops George Naylor grows on his farm.
What is "Naylor grows only two crops on his 470 acres -- corn and soybeans" (Pollan 32)?
The definition of GMO
One way high yield crops changed production.
What is "animals disappeared from the farm, and with them the pastures and hay fields and fences" because tractors and machinery began to replace them (Pollan 38).
_______________ (adjective): ________________ to be done, _____________, or present; needed; ___________________.
What are necessary, required, achieved, and essential?
The motif in Ratatouille and the theme this motif helps to develop.
What is, "Anyone Can Cook" which develops the theme you can be or do anything you put your mind to?
The place where most of our food comes from.
The opinion farmers like George Naylor have on GMOs.
What is, "They believe that GMOs are a reckless experiment with the natural order of things" (Pollan 36)?
Another way high yield crops changed production.
What is, "A farm of corn and soybeans doesn't require nearly as much human labor as the old-fashioned farm" therefore people lost their jobs (Pollan 38-39)?
_____________ (verb): _______________ _________________.
What are analyze, examine, and methodically?