WORD MASTERS
WORD MASTERS 2
MAUS KNOWLEDGE
LITERARY TERMS
RUN-ONS, FRAGS, AND COMPLETE SENTENCES
100
A teacher might do this to your essay when he is checking for grammar and punctuation.
What is SCRUTINIZE?
100
If you opened up your closet to find a new colony of rats, this might be your reaction.
What is RECOIL?
100
Vladek taught this to his kapo in exchange for food and preferential treatment.
What is ENGLISH?
100
Since he himself was the target of prejudice, Vladek's racism is an example of this.
What is IRONY?
100
Although there are two weeks left of school, most of the finals take place this week.
What is a COMPLETE SENTENCE?
200
In a game of RISK, South America is a good place to make one of these with your army.
What is FORAY?
200
If you have one of these that tells you that it is going to rain, you probably should take your umbrella.
What is a PREMONITION?
200
This is an example of Vladek's frugality.
What is exchanging Special K? What is complaining about opened salt? What is not allowing Art to use wooden matches?
200
Many portions of MAUS are these; they take place in a time prior to the main action in the story.
What are flashbacks?
200
Most of the finals aren't that hard some are, though.
What is a RUN-ON?
300
If you win an election by this, everybody probably liked you.
What is a CONSENSUS?
300
If left in the rain for too long, metals tend to do this, rendering them useless.
What is CORRODE?
300
In MAUS, this group is represented by the frog.
Who are the FRENCH?
300
During the Holocaust, Vladek (and the rest of the Jews in Poland) mainly found himself in this sort of conflict.
What is MAN VS. SOCIETY?
300
Ms. Bruno's final is the scariest of them all, a lot of people study for days for it.
What is a RUN-ON?
400
While you cannot necessarily steal a throne from a person, you can do this to one's position of power.
What is USURP?
400
When looking for a spouse, people tend to do this toward people that are like them.
What is GRAVITATE?
400
This person directly helped Anja to survive Birkeneau.
Who is Mancie?
400
This act of placing images side-by-side for contrast was used extensively in Spiegelman's MAUS.
What is JUXTAPOSITION?
400
The test, which wasn't that bad at all.
What is a FRAGMENT?
500
Silly Putty's general shape can be described as this.
What is AMORPHOUS?
500
A person who just loves to argue might be described as this.
What is QUERULOUS?
500
It was this person who told Vladek and Anja that they could safely make it to Hungary; he ended up leading them into a trap.
Who is Abraham Mandelbaum?
500
Comic books are an unexpected one of these for a story about the Holocaust.
What is a MEDIUM?
500
It's over.
What is a COMPLETE SENTENCE?
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