Amy Tan stories
What is Chinatown, San Francisco, CA?
This is what the boss had planned for his son before he passed away.
What is to take over the business?
"The Bet" starts with a _______.
What is a flashback?
This is how old the narrator is during the events of the story.
What is 14?
The usual associations/understanding surrounding a word or concept.
What is connotation?
This is the word for a person, especially a young one, endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities- what June's mom wants her to be.
What is prodigy?
This is the military conflict going on in "The Sniper."
What is the Irish Civil War?
This is what the lawyer and banker make a bet over.
What is life imprisonment vs the death penalty?
This is the social and cultural context of the story.
What is the Great Depression in a black community?
The quote “I was a dainty ballerina girl standing by the curtain" is an example of this term.
What is metaphor?
This is the primary issue between Waverly and her mother.
Her mother wants to control how she plays, Waverly wants independence and to play the American Way. Also, the mother brags about Waverly, who is embarrassed by the attention.
This is the effect of the intense imagery in "The Sniper."
What is it presents a graphic, deglamorized image of war?
These are some ways the lawyer spends his time in isolation.
What are reading, learning languages, and playing instruments?
This is why Lizbeth is triggered to rip out the marigolds.
She is unsettled and confused after hearing her father crying about being unable to provide for the family.
The quote “She was proudly modest” is an example of this literary device.
What is oxymoron?
This is what happens at the end of the story and suggests June's mother has forgiven her.
What is her mother offers her the piano?
This is why the boss tortures the fly.
It makes him feel in control and distracts him from his grief. The fly reminds him of his son's futile fighting in the war.
This is the message or theme of the lottery.
What is people should not blindly follow tradition?
This is what the marigolds symbolize to Lizabeth.
What is beauty and goodness? Also, hope?
The quote "the wind whispered secrets only I could hear" is an example of this term.
What is personification?
This is the strategy for winning arguments and manipulating opponents that Waverly learns.
What is invisible strength?
The effect of the title "the boss" rather than a name
It is ironic, suggests he should be in control when he isn't. It is impersonal and creates distance between him and his surroundings.
These are TWO clues that make the reader suspect something might be wrong with the lottery.
What is the boys are stacking stones, people are missing, people get quiet and serious when it starts, people say "I hope it's not...", Tessie tries to get her married daughter to count?
Lizabeth realizes that these two qualities cannot coexist.
What are innocence and compassion?
The marigold, the two piano pieces, and the chess set all function as _______ in their respective stories.
What is a symbol?