Name the Author
Literary Terms
Potpourri
Titles
Characters
100
He wrote Haroun and the Sea of Stories.
Who is Salman Rushdie?
100
The term for the main character.
What is the protagonist?
100
An arguable and provable claim found at the beginning of an academic essay.
What is a thesis statement?
100
A play in which the sword and the law are the two major symbols.
What is The Sultan's Dilemma?
100
A villain whose name means "the end."
Who is Kattum-Shud?
200
He wrote "The Second Bakery Attack."
Who is Haruki Murakami?
200
The high point, decisive moment, or turning point in a storyline at which the rising action turns around into a falling action
What is the climax?
200
The two things an essay should name immediately--ideally in the first sentence.
What are the author and title?
200
A major recurring theme in this novel is the use of stories. Several characters ask "what's the use of stories that aren't even true?"
What is Haroun and the Sea of Stories?
200
He is in love with the ugly Batcheat.
Who is Prince Bolo?
300
He wrote The Sultan's Dilemma.
Who is Tawfiq al-Hakim?
300
The revelation (usually early in a story) of necessary background information.
What is the exposition?
300
Think of this first or second sentence of a paragraph as a mini thesis statement.
What is a topic sentence?
300
After moving to America, Akunna finds that most people assume she has never seen a car or used a comb.
What is "The Thing Around Your Neck?"
300
He tries to convince the Sultan to use violence to solve his problems.
Who is the Vizier?
400
She wrote "The Tree."
Who is Maria Louisa Bombal?
400
This point-of-view is outside the story.
What is third-person narration?
400
Revision guidelines for making sentences more concise; the first step is to identify all prepositions.
What is the paramedic method?
400
Some argue that the narrator's wife persuades her husband to rob a fast-food chain in this short story.
What is "The Second Bakery Attack?"
400
Even though Brigida is his "necklace of sparrows," she eventually leaves him.
Who is Luis?
500
She wrote "The Women's Swimming Pool."
Who is Hanan al-Shaykh?
500
A character who changes, especially one who comes to a major revelation.
What is a dynamic character?
500
The single-best tool for producing great writing.
What is revision?
500
This text displays the obscenity of a high-level war colonel who killed 65,000 civilians in El Salvador.
What is "The Colonel?"
500
These two stories are narrated by unnamed characters.
What are the "The Second Bakery Attack" and"The Women's Swimming Pool?"
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