Vocabulary
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
MAUS1
Poetry
Usage
100
digress
What is to deviate
100
Santiago Nasar
What is the protagonist?
100
Artie
What is Vladek's son? Who is a comic artist?
100
Caesura
What is a strong pause within a line of the verse?
100
There is (a, an) union between the students that decide the school activities.
What is (a)?
200
extemporaneous
What is done without planning; spur
200
Angela accused Santiago of "deflowering" her
What is the reason Santiago is murdered by the Vicario twins?
200
Artie does not have anyone to be compared to or to be judged against
What is the reason behind Artie wanting to be an artist?
200
Free verse has no pattern, while blank verse follows unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is the difference between free verse and blank verse?
200
The teacher taught the (principal, principle) reason for the creation of the (principles, principals) of science.
What is principal (1st) and principles (2nd)?
300
traduce
What is to slander one's reputation
300
Santiago was obsessed with Maria Alejandra Cervantes
What is the reason Santiago was taken to and locked in the Divine Face for a year?
300
No one knows what happened to Anja's diaries.
What is the end result of Anja's diaries?
300
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How many lines does a SESTINA have?
300
"You are not (allowed, aloud) in that area of the shopping mall!" screamed the police officer.
What is allowed?
400
bon mot
What is a witty remark or saying
400
a continuous loop in time, not linear; something unrealistic. FOR EXAMPLE: the incident with the bullet that was fired and flew all the way across town
What is magic realism?
400
Lucia
Who is the writer of the note Anja got sent about Vladek dating many girls? Who is Vladek's ex-girlfriend? Who is obsessed with Vladek?
400
Synecdoche
What is a figure of speech in which a part is substituted for a whole?
400
Santiago is (dying, dyeing).
What is dying?
500
redoubtable
What is arousing fear
500
"'Any man will be happy with them because they've been raised to suffer.'"
What is Purisima Vicario's way of saying that her daughters, including Angela, were born to suffer and therefore, is the reason all men will be happy with them as his wife?
500
Since the Nazis were rounding up the Jewish and taking them to gas chambers, Tosha, Anja's sister, poisons herself, her children, and Richieu.
Why did Richieu die?
500
"Whose woods these are I think I know"
What is an example of syntax?
500
I like to (lie, lay) down in the sand of the beach.
What is lie?
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