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No longer working or active.
What is defunct?
100
This character believes that Junior should leave the rez for the following reasons: everyone on there has given up, Junior will die if he stays there, the rez is not teaching Junior anything worthwhile.
Who is Mr. P.?
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The following quote that appears at the beginning of Part-Time Indian is an example of this literary element: "There is another world, but it is in this one." W.B. Yeats
What is an epigraph?
100
The form of new words from the initial letters of a set of other words.
What is acronym?
100
Jess experienced this type of conflict when her mother did not want her to play football, and instead, expected that she learn how to cook a good Indian meal.
What is cultural conflict.
200
Something that saves or helps.
What is deliverance.
200
Junior does this because he is ashamed of his anger, rage, and pain against Rowdy and his old team.
What is the reason why Junior cries after his team wins their second game against Wellpinit?
200
Humorous writing or speech intended to point out errors, falsehoods, foibles, or failings in human behaviors or institutions.
What is satire?
200
A joining of two separate words to create a single form.
What is compounding?
200
This type of conflict happened to Junior when he couldn't decide to go to Reardan because he was afraid of letting down his tribe, although he knew he would get a better education.
What is internal conflict?
300
Happening many times.
What is recurrent.
300
In the Odyssey, this character says, “Now comes the weird upon me, spoken of old. A wizard, grand and wondrous, lived here- Telemos . . . and these things he foretold for time to come; my great eye lost, and at Odysseus’ hands. Always I had in mind some giant . . . but you-small, pitiful and twiggy- you put me down with wine, you blinded me.”
Who is Polyphemos (Cyclops)?
300
A difference between appearance and reality.
What is irony?
300
The invention of new terms, which become general terms.
What is coinage?
300
This phase of the Hero's Journey is the only phase represented in the portion of The Odyssey that we read as a class.
What is Phase II - The Initiation?
400
Covered
What is mantled?
400
Odysseus knows he will not be able to move the boulder which is blocking the door.
Why doesn't Odysseus kill the Cyclops the first chance he had?
400
A story told from the narrator's perspective in which the narrator does not take part in the action and uses words such as he, she, it, and they.
What is 3rd person point of view?
400
A change in the function of a word.
What is conversion?
400
This type of conflict was represented best when Rowdy elbowed Junior in the head and knocked him unconscious during their first rival basketball game.
What is external conflict?
500
Agreeing with
What is affirmative?
500
What the Cyclops mean when he tells Odysseus, “We care not a whistle for your thundering Zeus . . . we have more force by far”?
What is we are stronger and more powerful than Zeus?
500
A kind of fiction that is, for the most part, realistic, but that contains elements of fantasy.
What is magical realism?
500
A word of one type (noun) is reduced to form a word of another type (verb).
What is backformation?
500
This step of the Hero's Journey is represented by the lotus flower instead of a woman.
What is Woman as Temptress?
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