This is the name of the concentration camp from which Elie was ultimately liberated by the Allies.
What is Buchenwald?
100
The absence of emotion or passion.
What is apathy?
100
The name of the hero or main character in the story
What is the protagonist?
100
This character screws up at a talent show while playing piano and the only one who claps is her deaf piano teacher!
Who is Jing-Mei?
100
Jess' mom is interested in teaching her daughters to do THIS, instead of play soccer.
What is cook?
200
The name of the prisoner who played his violin until he was trampled to death by a crowd in the camp.
Who is Juliek?
200
A group of military vehicles traveling together, usually for the protection or someone important.
What is a convoy?
200
The highest point of emotion or interest in the story
What is the climax?
200
This is what Barton is delivering to the planet Woden when he encounters Marilyn, the stowaway, on his ship in "The Cold Equations."
What is medicine?
200
Jess' family puts pressure on her to be a "proper woman" because of THIS.
What is their Indian culture?
300
This is the name of the town from which Elie and his family were from - Elie's dad was a shopkeeper here.
What is Sighet (Transylvania)?
300
This means easily understood
What is lucid?
300
A problem that goes on within a character
What is internal conflict?
300
This is the last wish of the man who had the monkey's paw before Sgt. Major Morris got it
What is death?
300
Jess & Jules' fighting over their coach, Joe, is an example of _____________ conflict.
What is external?
400
Adolf Hitler's attempt to conquer the world by getting rid of the Jews, Gypsies, and various other groups.
What is the Holocaust?
400
A feeling of anticipation or anxiety over a future event
What is a premonition?
400
A character that stays the same throughout the story & doesn't change.
What is a static character?
400
This is Mr. White's first wish in "The Monkey's Paw"
What is money?
400
Jess talks to this person at night because she has no one else who will listen to her about soccer.
Who is David Beckham?
500
The Nazis did this to the Jews as a way to gain control over them; it means to strip one's human dignity away
What is "dehumanization"?
500
A violent windstorm, usually one with rain, hail, and/or snow.
What is a tempest?
500
The first evidence of conflict, or where the action starts in the story
What is the inciting incident?
500
The country from which Jing-Mei's mother emigrated in order to have a better life in America; this is perhaps the reason she pushes her daughter to be great.
What is China?
500
Jess' dad getting to play cricket with some Englishmen at the very end of the story is an example of which literary term/short story element?