definitions
simile
"When I went back to her room she was crying. We were not in the same social class but at least we were in the same bed."
Persepolis Marjane Satrapi
The bench in Master Harold and the Boys
Symbolism
True or False: This quote is from Master Harold and the Boys
"You know what that bench means now, and you can leave it anytime you choose."
True
1 theme that relates to the Monbiot essays
sharing the planet
acceptable answer: environment & climate change
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
metaphor
"And so? It was as if I had waited all this time for this moment and for the first light of this dawn to be vindicated. Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living."
The Stranger Albert Camus
Imagery
True or False: This quote came from Chronicle of a Death Foretold
"I didn't know what justice was."
False, it came from Persepolis
2 themes relating to The Stranger
perspective & beliefs and values
acceptable answers: absurdism & experiences
a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
euphemism
"Don't let's get started on religion. We'll just spend the whole afternoon arguing again."
Master Harold and the Boys Athol Fugard
God's portrayal in Persepolis as an old wise man
Characterization
True or False: This quote is from the Handmaid's Tale
"So, with all the sleep, my memories...the alternation of light and darkness, time passed"
False, its from The Stranger
3 themes relating to Persepolis
culture, human rights, & politics
acceptable answers: representation, identities, & experiences
uses informal language and slang, and when used as a literary device, it can build a character's personality and authenticity
colloquialism
"The air would be clear after that, and lighter. I look up at the ceiling, the round circle of plaster flowers. Draw a circle, step into it, it will protect you. From the center was the chandelier, and fromt the chandelier a twisted strip of sheet was hanging down. That's where she was swinging, just lightly, like a pendulum; the way you could swing as a child, hanging by your hands from a tree branch."
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
Or in a park somewhere, with my mother. How old was I? It was cold, our breaths came out in front of us, there were no leaves on the trees; gray sky, two ducks in the pond, disconsolate."
Flashback
True or False: This quote comes from the Monbiot Essays
"The air got too full, once, of chemicals, rays, radiation, the water swarmed with toxic molecules..."
False, its from the Handmaid's Tale
4 themes relating to Frankenstein
Identities, Transformation, Communication, & Nature and the Unnatural
acceptable answers: perspective, human, beliefs & values
the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in I like it and so do they.
anaphora
“Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage"
Frankenstein
"Victor's mind is filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose"
Repetition
True or False: This quote is from Frankenstein
"The damage from the knives was only a beginning for the unforgiving autopsy"
False, its from A Chronicle of a Death Foretold
5 themes relating to The Handmaid's Tale
Human, Identities, Human Rights, Social Organization, Experiences, Mental Health
acceptable answers: Peace and Conflict, Life Stories, Perspective