Short Stories
The prize that the girl who had knife trouble brought home to share with her father?
What is a puzzle?
This dramatic convention includes instructions for actors on how to move and speak during a performance.
What are stage directions?
Often used to express personal and cultural experiences, this form of poetry also incorporating rhythm and performance.
What is slam poetry?
This device involves the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
This classmate is the most likely to say studying is fun
Who is Wesley?
The holiday that's approaching in "Someday"
What is Christmas?
This dude is a jack of all trades, and a master of none.
Who is Tonto?
What is Home Alone?
This narrative technique involves looking back at past events to provide context or background
What is a flashback?
This is Ms. MacKenzie's favourite animal, and she appreciates them for their resourcefulness and solid mothering skills.
What is the raccoon?
Janice personalized license plate reads this.
What is WIRTH?
This person was the one coined the phrase that titled the play we just read?
Who is Anne?
This looped song in Leanne Simpson's poem creates a sense of entrapment and emotional overwhelm
What is Happy Birthday?
The play includes several emotionally charged pauses and silences between dialogue, a technique that emphasizes what remains unsaid.
What is dramatic tension?
This classmate showed another side of herself while performing in her mother tongue.
Who is Lala?
The girl's outfit in the class photo was the colour of this vegetable
What is broccoli?
This technique involves creating a frozen picture with actors to represent a scene or concept.
What is tableau?
This item, embedded in the floor in Identity Impaired, symbolizes permanence and love.
What is a stainless-steel disk?
Janice often delivers emotionally intense lines in a flat, dismissive tone, creating this effect by contrasting content with delivery.
What is verbal irony (or tonal contrast)?
She went to New York City just for the weekend and planned to study while she was there
Who is Gwyneth?
Anne always had a full pot of this going
What is tea?
This is where the Wirth's live.
Where is London, Ontario?
In Chen Chen’s poem, this object is used by the father as a way to withdraw emotionally from the dinner.
What is a newspaper?
In I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party, the speaker compares his parents’ visit to a scene from a slapstick-meets-psychological horror film. This layered, humorous comparison is an example of this device.
What is extended metaphor?
She's a soccer goalkeeper.
Who is Amanda?