Characters and Characterization
The name of play's central protagonist?
Who is Evan?
When Heidi says her conversation with Evan is "stellar," she is using v_____ i_____.
What is verbal irony?
Evan would probably agree with one of the authors that, "We lie to avoid being/feeling a________."
What is awkward?
The name of this punctuation mark
. . .
What is an ellipsis?
Bonus 100: The ellipsis is used to primarily show the characters' . . . ?
Bonus 100: Write a sentence that correctly uses an em-dash for interrupted thought. Write the same sentence but with parentheses for gently added information.
Bonus 200: Write a sentence that correctly use an em-dash to set off appositive nouns
This is a song of remembrance and the title of the song Zoe sings about not wanting to falsely remember her brother, Connor.
What is requiem?
The name of the boy who commits suicide
Who is Connor?
What is dramatic irony?
On reason we lie, according to the author, is to protect ourselves and others from h____ t______.
What are hard truths?
For the most part, Heidi is quite unaware of Evan's true feelings, making her this "N" word meaning "gullible" or "unaware."
What is naive?
Evan must maintain a different outer ______ than his inner ______, making him complex.
What is persona?
The name of Zoe and Connor's parents
Name/explain the likely stage they both enter when giving Connor's tie/baseball glove, respectively to Evan.
Who are Larry and Cynthia; bargaining
When Cynthia says, "Are you going to get involved here or are you too busy on your email, Larry," she implies that her husband is . . .
What is disinterested (or similar answers)?
The quote, "Do you teach children to lie? I do. All the time. And you do, too!" can be best called _____ because it is contradictory to our expectations.
What is irony (ironic)
*Daily Double* Name/categorize the type of irony in which one's expectations might with incongruous results?
Another stellar conversation for the scrapbook.
Another stumble as I'm reaching for the right thing to say.
I'm kinda coming up empty,
Can't find my way to you…
Does anybody have a map?
Which line above is a metaphor for being "lost as a parent?"
What is "I'm reaching for the right thing to say" or "Does anybody have a map," or "Can't find my way"
From the given list, Alana begins ______ Evan and Jared's fake email account, which results in the lie unraveling.
PROBING, SURROGATE, INFLATE, NOMINAL, ALOOF, NAIVE, EXPLICIT, IMPLICIT, CALUMNIOUS, FERVENT, BASE, DREG, SUPERFLUOUS, OSTRACIZE
What is probing?
She is best described as someone who doesn't wish to honor Conor's memory with false memories.
His/her singing her brother is a "monster" whom would not be mourned because he is a "villain" shows s/he is in what stage of grieving?
Who is Zoe; anger?
Which event is said to "seal Evan's fate" and bury hi further into him lie?
What is kissing Zoe?
The articles tell us that lying is a normal cognitive m________, or developmental step.
What is a milestone?
Evan says that he is a tree falling in the forest or that he is waving through a window with no one waving back shows that he is . . .
What is isolated/ignored (Answers will vary)?
From the given list, one of the motivations Evan has for continuing his lie is to pacify, mollify, or _____ the Murphy's, making them feel better.
PROBING, SURROGATE, INFLATE, NOMINAL, ALOOF, NAIVE, EXPLICIT, IMPLICIT, CALUMNIOUS, FERVENT, BASE, DREG, SUPERFLUOUS, OSTRACIZE, ASSUAGE
What is assuage?
The name of the character who frequently describes Connor as a "close acquaintance"
Who is Alana?
*Bonus 100*: "Close acquaintance," like "darkest day" and "brightest night," is this type of figurative language in which two "O"pposites are jammed together
Name any type of sound or figurative device used below:
Why should I have a heavy heart?
Why should I start to break in pieces?
Why should I go and fall apart for you?
Why should I play the grieving girl and lie,
Saying that I miss you,
And that my world has gone dark without your light?
What are rhetorical questions, anaphora, metaphors, visual imagery, alliteration?
"These are what scientists call 'prosocial lies'—falsehoods told for someone else’s benefit, as opposed to 'antisocial lies'that are told strictly for your own personal gain. The National Geographic article might call "prosocial lies" as a________ lies, or lies meant to help.
What is altruistic?
"Just because Connor isn't here, trying to punch through my door- screaming at the top of his lungs that he's going to kill me for no reason- that doesn't mean that, all of a sudden, we're the %#% Brady Bunch." What "A" figurative language term is Zoe using when she makes an outside reference to the 1970's TV show the Brady Bunch?
What is allusion?
Evan's lie starts of much more innocently, or ___________ than the more serious turn that it takes.
PROBING, SURROGATE, INFLATE, NOMINAL, ALOOF, NAIVE, EXPLICIT, IMPLICIT, CALUMNIOUS, FERVENT, BASE, DREG, SUPERFLUOUS, OSTRACIZE, INNOCUOUS
What is innocuously?
Final Jeopardy: Connor's internal dialogue with Evan is a manifestation of Evan's own ___________, suggesting or implying that . . .