The Giver
Short Stories
Literary Devices
MLA
100

When someone within the community goes elsewhere

What is being released

100

The short story about names being drawn from a wooden box

What is "The Lottery"

100
The time, place, or location where a story takes place

What is setting

100

The formal format that English academic papers are written in 

What is MLA formatting

200

The baby Jonas takes with him outside of the community

Who is Gabriel

200

One brother against another

What is "The Sniper"

200

Asher is an example of this in "The Giver"

What is a static character

200

The place where you put all your sources that you've used within your paper

What is a works cited page
300

The memory of the family at Christmas time

What is love

300

Largely based on an Asian-Canadian family

What is "Bao"? 

300

Comes in three forms (dramatic, situational and verbal)

What is irony

300
Includes a direct quotation, page number and author name

What is an in-text citation 

400

The game Jonas gets mad at his friends for playing

What is war

400

The main conflict of "the Lottery"

What is man vs society
400

This includes all the beginning aspects of character, setting and conflict within a story

What is exposition?

400

Includes, your name, your teacher's name, the date, and what class its for 

How do you properly put your name on a MLA paper

500

The theme that encompasses the last chapter

What is individual vs society 

500

The main conflict of "The Necklace"

What is man vs himself 

500

Includes rising actions, climax and falling action that all happen in a sequence of events 

What is plot

500

Lowry, Lois. The Giver. New York, Random House, 2002.

What is the correct way to cite "The Giver"

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