Lit Terms
This is the author or narrator’s implied attitude toward a subject, a character, and/or the audience.
What is tone?
The scientific study of the origins, cultural development, and customs of human beings.
what is anthropology
To register as a student at a college or university.
what is matriculate
This is the reason Pi creates an alternative story for the investigators, that does not include the animals
What is because they needed a dry story that was easy to believe
This is the name of the person in the Underworld that Circe tells Odysseus he needs to meet
This is the atmosphere or predominant emotion in a literary work with the intention of making the audience feel the same.
What is mood?
A person who hates all people.
what is misanthrope
Having to do with the family.
what is familial
This is how Pi manages to balance 3 different religions
What is he just wants to love God
For how many years does Calypso keep Odysseus captive on her island?
What is 7?
This is the manner in which a writer arranges words into sentences.
What is syntax?
Having certain characteristics traditionally associated with masculinity, especially physical strength, vitality, and assertiveness.
what is virile
Emerging; coming into existence.
what is nascent
This is the animal that symbolizes Pi's mother
This is the trait that often leads Odysseus into fights or other risky scenarios unnecessarily
What is hubris?
This is vivid appeals to the various senses that have an emotion or attitude attached to them.
What is imagery?
Well-mannered; refined; polite.
what is genteel
Childish; immature.
what is puerile
This is the place where Pi's family plans to emigrate to
This is a narrative technique whereby the poet begins by launching into the middle of the story.
What is in medias res?
This is the particular words an author uses and their connotations.
What is diction?
To be friendly with.
what is fraternize
Childlike; unsophisticated. OR Gullible.
what is naive
Yann Martel uses this literary device when he puts things like faith and doubt close to each other in the text
What is juxtaposition?
This is how Odysseus' nurse is able to identify him when he returns to Ithaca
What is a scar?