Background/Context
This empire ruled India from the 1700s to 1947, establishing English-language schools like the one Santha and Premila attend in "By Any Other Name."
What is the British Empire?
By Any Other Name is set in this location.
What is India?
This describes a woman in charge of a school.
What is a headmistress?
Her smile is like a ray of sunshine is this example of figurative language.
What is a simile?
It is the powerhouse of the cell.
What is mitochondria?
This Haitian dictatorship, led by Papa Doc and Baby Doc from 1957 to 1986, created a climate of fear and oppression central to the backstory of "Book of the Dead."
What is the Duvalier regime?
Annie is working as this in New York City.
What is an artist?
The British school uses this process to make Indian students absorb British culture and customs.
What is assimilation?
The ground groaned as Godzilla marched through New York City is this example of figurative language.
What is personification?
Using the Pythagorean theorem, the length of the hypotenuse in a right triangle with legs of 5 units and 12 units.
What is 13 units?
This Indian independence leader, active during the 1920s setting of "By Any Other Name," inspired nonviolent resistance against British colonial rule.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This is what Premila and Santha struggle to maintain when given English names.
What is cultural identity?
This term means to be objective, with no emotions involved.
What is detached?
Justin is a class clown.
What is a metaphor?
This French general lost the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
In "Book of the Dead," Annie’s father was a guard at this notorious Haitian prison under the Duvalier regime, known for torturing political prisoners.
Annie creates this object, reflecting her father's experiences in Haiti.
What is a sculpture?
In "Book of the Dead," Annie might do this, meaning to consider carefully, as she reflects on her father’s revealed past and its impact on their relationship
What is contemplate?
In the phrase "Sally’s slippery snakes slithered silently," this literary device is used.
What is an alliteration?
Rio de Janerio is located in this South American country.
What is Brazil?
During the Duvalier regime in "Book of the Dead," many Haitians, like Annie’s father, fled to this U.S. city, forming a large diaspora community.
What is New York?
Annie’s father reveals he was this, not a prisoner, under Haiti’s Duvalier regime, admitting his role in its cruelties.
What is a prison guard?
The British school’s narrow-minded attitude in "By Any Other Name," ignoring Indian culture in favor of British traditions, can be described as this, meaning isolated or provincial.
What is insular?
The cat is a real Einstein.
What is an allusion?
This biological process, occurring in plant chloroplasts, uses sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?