A person, place, or thing that comes to represent an abstract idea or concept.
What is a symbol?
100
Eg. My eyes wandered to the old trunk in the corner. There were three new dolls lying on top of it.
What is first person point of view.
100
The controlling idea or central insight in a piece of fiction.
What is Theme?
100
A clash of actions, ideas, desires, or wills. (man vs. . . .)
What is conflict?
100
The name of the story that involved a man who decided he wanted to quit smoking.
What is Quitter's Inc.
200
Symbols almost always signal their existance by _____________ and ________________ .
What are frequency and detail?
200
Eg. Mr. E sat at his desk trying to think of interesting ways to get his students to study for the exam. Mrs. E entered the room and asked him what he was doing.
After Mr. E's short explanation, Mrs. E said, "Why don't you try online jeopardy?"
Mr. E loved the idea.
What is limited omniscient point of view?
200
The part of speech of the underlined word:
My father passed __me__ my allowance.
What is an indirect object?
200
The main character.
Who is the protagonist?
200
The name of the story that involves a young boy and girl who trap their parents in a special room where they are devoured by Lions.
What is The Veldt?
300
In this kind of irony, there is a difference between expectation and fulfillment, or between appearance and reality, or between what is and what would seem appropriate. Eg. Mr. E leaving a rainy January in Vancouver for Hawaii, only to get there and find it is rainy and Vancouver is unseasonably warm and dry.
What is situational irony?
300
Eg.Mr E. sait quietly at the desk. He made no movements. Mrs E. then entered the room and said, " What are you doing?"
"I'm trying to make exam review interesting for students," said Mr. E.
"Why don't you try jeopardy?" said Mrs. E.
Mr. E. smiled.
What is objective point of view?
300
The problem with this theme statement, "The theme of "The Last Fall" is two wrongs don't make a right."
What is cliche?
300
The forces arrayed against the protagonist, whether persons, things, conventions of society, or traits of his own character.
What is the antagonist?
300
Four characters from the story "On the Sidewalk Bleeding."
Who are Andy, Laura, Angela, Freddie, the cop, the drunk, the bag lady?
400
In this kind of irony the discrepancy is between what is said and what is meant. Eg. Someone is talking about the invention of machine guns that can kill people by the dozens and says, "If this isn't progress!"
What is verbal irony?
400
Mr. E sat at his desk trying to think of an interesting way for students to review for the government exam.
At another location in the house, Mrs. E. was wondering if her husband would ever stop working for his students and start working around the house.
What is omniscient point of view?
400
The problem with this theme statement: The theme of "Elephants for Sale" is all children who face divorce also face depression.
What is "it doesn't avoid absolutes"?
400
A position in which a character must choose between two couses of action, both undesirable.
What is dilemma?
400
The name of the story in which a woman drives out to meet her husband at a train station in Colchester?
What is Night Drive?
500
In this irony, the contrast is between what a character says or thinks and what the reader knows to be true.
Eg. Juliet pretends to go along with her mother's plan to avenge Tybalt's death by arranging Romeo's murder, and answers her with a wonderful play on words: "Indeed I shall never be satisfied / with Romeo, till I behold him - dead - is my poor heart." Her mother believes she is saying that, more than anything, she wants Romeo dead, while what she really (as the audience knows) means is that her heart is dead until she sees Romeo again.
What is dramatic irony?
500
The three third person points of view.
What are limited omniscient, objective, and omniscient?
500
The first four steps of grammar you learned this autumn.
Step 1- underline the verb
Step 2- circle the subject
Step 3- look for a direct object and possibly an indirect object.
Step 4- find a predicate noun or predicate adjective
500
Identify the part of speech underlined in each of the following sentences.
Sentence 1. I am a __giant__.
Sentence 2. Lennie forgot the __keys__.
Sentence 3. The basketball players were __hungry__.
What are: Sentence 1- predicate noun
Sentence 2- direct object
Sentence 3-predicate adjective