American identity
The idea many immigrants had that you could achieve all your goals and become rich in the US
What is the American Dream?
The product which was the centre of attention in the commercial we watched during this course
What is an iPhone?
The most common type of main character in a crime story
What is a detective?
Endelsen som verber der ender på -y, som fx 'to cry', i præsens, 3.pers.sing.
What is -ies (cries)?
The only pet Sara and her family has
What is a cat?
The name of the island at which all immigrants arrived between 1892 and 1954
What is Ellis Island?
The name of the boy who learned to hunt by his father - and ends up killing a black man
Who is Tommy Grimes?
What is Rachel?
Det grammatiske term, som betyder "overensstemmelse" og beskriver, hvordan subjekt og verballed skal stemme overens (verbets endelse i præsens).
What is kongruens?
The names of Sara's two daughters
What is Molly and Frida
What is the Frontier?
The reason why Tommy in the short story "The Death of Tommy Grimes" went hunting
What is his father's expectations /search for his father's acknowledgement?
The term to describe how a writer can make the plot of a crime story move faster and in that way make the story more exciting
What is the push effect?
Det latinske ord for "ejefald", som bruges til at beskrive, hvordan der er et ejerforhold mellem en person/ting og en anden
What is genitiv?
The city Sara has studied in?
What is Aarhus?
The most dominant nationality of the first immigrants to the US
What is English?
The country in which the short film "Antiman" takes place
What is Guyana?
The setting sometimes chosen for a crime story in order to make a contrast to the eerie atmosphere, for example in a series like "Barnaby"
What is an idyllic place?
Den ordklasse der omfatter beskrivende ord, der kan knytte sig til et substantiv eller et pronomen
What is et adjektiv /tillægsord?
The European city Sara has lived and worked in for about a year before starting her studies
What is London?
The name of the former President who abolished slavery in the US after the civil war ended in 1865.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The issue Jeremy Kraatz described (and struggled with) in his article "My Grandpa's redneck wedding"
What is prejudice /narrowmindedness /homosexuality?
The traditional structure of a crime story
What is a murder - an investigation - an outcome /punishment /arrest?
What is præpositionsforbindelse?
One English-speaking country which Sara has never visited, but dreams of visiting in the future:
- Australia
- India
- South Africa
What is South Africa?