Vocab
Treating someone as though they are less than human.
Language that helps us picture a scene, usually by describing sensory details
Imagery
The citys skyline looked beautiful from the museums rooftop cafe.
The city’s skyline looked beautiful from the museum’s rooftop cafe.
“‘This whole war…You know what it is? Just one big banquet. You and me. Everybody. Meat for the bugs.’ The next morning he shot himself in the foot” (212).
Rat Kiley, always full of jokes, breaks down at the end of TTTC. As a medic, he feels bad that he wasn’t able to save more people, and that he lost his best friend. He shoots himself to escape the war.
Tim O'Brien fought in what war?
The Vietnam War
A genre in which Black creators and heroes are celebrated, and that often imagines a better world than what currently is.
Afrofuturism
Hinting at future events to come
Foreshadowing
Brookes brother plays the guitar, but he doesnt like performing in front of others.
Brooke's brother plays the guitar, but he doesn't like performing in front of others.
“Be careful, Lauren. He’s probably all right. He seems to be. But, well…Yell if anything goes wrong” (260).
Harry warns Lauren that he knows what going’s on between her and Bankole, and offers to provide backup if she needs it. (Parable)
What years are covered in Parable of the Sower?
2024-27
Trivialize
To make something seem less important than it actually is.
Strategic word choice
Diction
My parent’s are going to pick me up from the party once I text them that im ready.
My parents are going to pick me up from the party once I text them that I'm ready.
“Tell him I am a man,” he said. “He was a man, too, my son.”
Kongo, the father of Joel (who was killed in the car accident), asks Amabelle to tell Papi that he doesn’t want to talk. Instead, he affirms Joel’s and his own humanity. (FoB)
What is Liliana’s six-word autobiography that she writes at 826 Boston?
"Don't ask me where I'm from."
Definition AND noun form of the word “generate”
Definition: To create or produce.
Noun form: Generativity
“The hurricane stomped all over the town” is an example of…
Personification
Its never easy to remember everyones name when youre starting a new job.
It’s never easy to remember everyone’s name when you’re starting a new job.
“What happened to her, Rat said, was what happened to all of them. You come over clean and you get dirty and then afterward it’s never the same” (109). **Who is her?
Rat describes Mary Anne’s transformation from a meek girly-girl to a ruthless killer. She truly is “never the same,” to the point where she disappears into the jungle. (TTTC)
The Parsley Massacre took place in what year?
1937
Dramatic irony
When the audience knows something the characters don’t, creating tension and anticipation.
A repeated symbol
Motif
Theirs two many assignments due next week, and I havent even started mondays homework.
There’s too many assignments due next week, and I haven’t even started Monday’s homework.
“The professor returned to look down at me lying there, cradled by the current, paddling like a newborn in a washbasin…He, like me, was looking for the dawn” (308).
Amabelle finishes FoB by lying in the waters of the river between Haiti and the DR. She is shadowed by the somewhat crazy professor. It is a moment where she is seeking relief (from the death of her parents, the loss of Sebastien, and all the trauma she injured), but we don’t yet know if she will find it.
What is City's full name? (from Long Division)
Citoyen Coldson