Characters
This is the name of the dog Christopher finds dead in Mrs Shears’ garden.
Who is Wellington?
This is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers.
What are prime numbers?
The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog.
Truncated sentences. Direct and observational tone.
This way of navigating the world provides Christopher with a sense of safety/ comfort.
Logical thinking
This is Christopher's father
Who is Ed Boone?
This is a narrator who cannot be trusted or whose credibility is compromised.
What is an unreliable narrator?
“He had a very hairy nose. It looked as if there were two very tiny mice hiding in his nostrils."
Simile
This is when two a book fits within two genres
Genre hybridity
This is Christopher’s teacher who encourages him to write his investigation as a book.
Who is Siobhan?
This is a the perspective the story is told from.
What is Narrative Voice?
"Christopher?...Christopher? It just...it got out of control..."
Elipsis
a clue which makes you come to a wrong conclusion
Red Herring
Who is Toby?
What are the resources that we use to organize our understanding of the world and to make meaning in communication with others
What are Semiotic Resources?
"I held up my left hand and spread my fingers out in a fan and we made our fingers and thumbs touch each other."
Visual Imagery/ symbolism
This is the setting for Curious Incident
Swindon (and a little bit of London)
This is the lady who tells Christopher about his mother's affair.
Who is Mrs Alexander?
This is the name of a work of fiction that is written in the form of letters.
What is epistolary form?
"A black hole is what is called a singularity"
Scientific allusion
This is Christopher's favourite mystery writer.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle