Maus I
Narrative Techniques
Upstanders
The Holocaust
Commas, dashes, ellipses
100

The parents of Art

Who is Vladek and Anja?

100

The act of slowing down or speeding up a moment 

What is pacing?

100

The upstander who hid the Frank family

Who is Meip Gies?

100

Jews were forced to wear this symbol on their clothing

What is the Star of David?

100

Insert the comma(s):

I love running hiking biking and taking walks

What is "I love running, hiking, biking, and taking walks"

200

The structure of a graphic novel

What are panels?

200

This point of view uses “I” to tell the story from inside a character’s mind.

What is "first person" narration?

200

Characteristic(s) of an upstander

What is....brave, empathetic, courageous, integrity, determined, perseverance?

200

This ghetto, the largest in Europe, held more than 400,000 Jews at its peak

What is the Warsaw Ghetto?

200

This punctuation mark shows a trailing off of thought or omitted words in a quotation

What is ellipses?

300

Polish people are drawn as this animal

What are pigs?
300

A jump backward in time to reveal earlier events.

What are "flashbacks?"

300

Edelman often rejected this label, insisting he was simply doing what needed to be done

What is hero?

300

Jews were often transported to camps in these types of overcrowded, sealed rail cars.

What are cattle cars?

300

Most commonly used coordinating conjunctions

What are FANBOYS; For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?

400

The theme throughout Maus I

What is bearing witness?

400

The author’s attitude toward the subject.

What is tone?

400

This Dutch woman and her husband hid more than three dozen Jews in their home in Laren, using a secret attic and an elaborate warning system

Who are Johtje and Aart Vos?

400

Once Hitler learned of her "defectiveness," she was unable to have children, though her boyfriend never left her side

Who is Franziska Schwarz?

400

Insert the dash:

I finally understood the problem it was more complicated than I thought

What is "I finally understood the problem- it was more complicated than I thought"

500

Anja once stayed at a sanitarium in this country

What is Czechoslovakia?

500

Details that involve the senses: hearing, seeing, touching, smelling, and tasting.

What are "sensory details?"

500

This street in Budapest is named after the Swiss vice‑consul who issued tens of thousands of protective documents and created “safe houses,” saving more Jews during the Holocaust than almost any other diplomat.

Who is Carl Lutz Weg?

500

This man developed the 10 stages of genocide

Who is Doctor Gregory Stanton

500

Insert comma and coordinating conjunction to combine these sentences:

She wanted to go outside. It started to rain.

What is "she wanted to go outside, but it started to rain"

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