Literary Terms
A central idea that gives a work meaning.
THEME
Who wrote "The Gift to Sing"?
James Weldon Johnson
What is a comparison using like or as?
Simile
Who is the ferryman in The Epic of Gilgamesh?
Urshanabi
What literary term is "the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; the difference between what a character or speaker says and what the text reveals.
Irony
Where and when the action of a work takes place.
SETTING
What was the theme of "The Gift to Sing"?
persistence, hope
A comparison in which one thing is stated in terms of another?
Metaphor
In The Epic of Gilgamesh, who/what took the plant away from Gilgamesh?
The serpent
In what town did our chapter from Around the World in Eighty Days take place? "In Which a Slight View is Had of..........."
San Fransisco
A way to analyze literature by using specific evidence in a text to draw conclusions about the text.
CLOSE READING
Who wrote "The Vagabond"?
Robert Louis Stevenson
The perspective from which a story is told.
Point of View
In Around the World in Eighty Days," who was following Phileas Fogg around waiting to arrest him?
What challenge did Utnapishtim give to Gilgamesh in the beginning of the reading?
Stay awake for six days seven nights
A direct or indirect hint at an event that will take place in the future.
FORESHADOWING
"Composed on Westminster Bridge" by William Wordsworth demonstrates the influence of what on the author's view of nature and London.
Romanticism
Giving humanlike qualities to an inanimate object or animal.
Personification
In Around the World in Eighty Days, who was the woman they rescued from being burned alive?
Aouda
In The Epic of Gilgamesh, what was ultimately Gilgamesh's desrtiny?
To be king (the kingship)
What the author seeks to communicate.
What poem did Alfred Lord Tennyson write based on the Battle of Balaklava?
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
The use of words to appeal to the senses.
Imagery
In The Epic of Gilgamesh, who is the friend whose death motivates Gilgamesh to travel in search of everlasting life?
Enkidu
What is the significance of the title, "The Gift to Sing"?
Although the author does not mention singing as a gift in the poem, he recognizes it as a gift (and as Christians, we understand that this is a gift that comes from God). The title is significant because it shows the author's strong, positive, and hopeful tone, in spite of difficult circumstances.