Recall
What are the two primary themes of The Bonesetter’s Daughter?
Motherhood & secrets
How did Precious Auntie acquire her scars and what kind of bones are “dragon bones”?
Boiling ink & human bones of their ancestors
“The fog was sweeping over the ramparts of the bridge, devouring the headlamps of cars”
Personification
Not openly acknowledged or displayed.
Covert
A book, document, or piece of music written by hand rather than typed or printed.
Manuscript
Wendy is considered a __________ , ___________ character.
Flat, static
What conflict between LuLing and Precious Auntie leads to Precious Auntie’s suicide?
LuLing wants to marry into the Chang family
A paragraph in prose writing is called a ___________ in poetic writing.
Stanza
“She made an X with her index fingers,
the symbolic cross that keeps movie Draculas at bay.”
Allusion
Feeling anxiety or concern; unsettled.
Perturbed
What does the word Waipo mean?
Grandmother
How does Kai Jing pass away?
He is executed by the Japanese soldiers
What is assonance?
“Chaos is the penance for leisure.”
Metaphor
A block of steel, gold, silver, or other metal, typically oblong in shape.
Ingot
Describe Ruth & Art's relationship
Verbal Response
What is the name of the village where LuLing was raised?
Immortal Heart
Amy Tan and Emily Dickinson’s works both use the common theme of ___________.
Lies & the truth
“Dementia was like a truth serum.”
A local community or residence of a religious order, particularly an order of monks.
Monastery
What clues portray to the reader that Dory and Fia have matured as characters in their attitudes toward their step mother?
They act angsty towards Ruth, but then miss her presence once she is not around.
How does Ruth's childhood prepare her for her occupation as a ghost writer?
She translates for her mother and then later she translates for her clients.
When Ruth takes LuLing to the doctors office she thinks that her dementia is worsening quickly because she responds with the wrong age when asked during her exam. By the end of the novel, what truth is uncovered about her actual age?
The age LuLing gave the doctor was actually her true age. The dementia was making her expose the truth.
“The sun went down, the sounds of darkness came, the chirp, creak, and flap of unseen creatures.”
Onomatopoeia
In a way that cannot be changed, reversed, or recovered.
Irrevocably