Types of Conflict
What type of conflict is shown in this selection:
"I start to think that Sarah is becoming my friend,/but one night,/I hear her talking with Aunt Michelle./When will they leave? Sarah says./My heart sinks as I translate the words/in my head,/the weight of them slowly settling/onto my chest like a stone" (Warga 78).
What is character vs. character.
Which of these is an example of a direct character trait of Jude:
(A) "I stretch my eyes as wide as I can" (Warga 25).
(B) "My face looks older./Different" (Warga 226).
(C) "I was wrong about not/wanting to be in Mrs. Ravenswood's room" (Warga 112).
What is (A) or (B).
What type of figurative language is shown here:
"I do not touch the paper./I avoid it like a hot plate that will burn me" (Warga 32).
What is simile.
What type of figurative language is shown here:
"chunky platform sandals that/clomp clomp" (Warga 77).
What is onomatopoeia.
What POV is Other Words for Home written in?
What is first person
What type of conflict is Issa involved in with against the Syrian government?
What is character vs. society.
TRIPLE JEOPARDY!
"my cool American cousin,"
Direct or indirect character trait?
What is direct.
What type of figurative language is shown here:
"Mama wraps her arms around me,/pulling me close to her,/and she smells like she always has,/agarwood oil and rosewater" (Warga 95).
What is imagery.
TRIPLE JEOPARDY!
What type of figurative language is shown here:
"But my mouth is silent,/my lips shut like a/closed door" (Warga 85).
What is a simile (a comparison using like or as).
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
A question about a reader's mood has one, correct answer. True or false?
False.
"I glance over my shoulder/and see that the man is following me./My heart jumps up in my chest,/and it hammers furiously./Go back to where you came from, he says./We don't want you here" (Warga 263).
What is character vs. society.
"My uncle Mazin works all the time" (Warga 72).
Direct or indirect character trait?
What is indirect.
What type of figurative language is shown here:
"Sometimes I think I might split in half/from the ache of missing/my brother" (Warga 83).
What is hyperbole.
What type of figurative language is shown here:
"I hear the crinkling of/potato chips bags/and the shuffling of/sneakers" (Warga 251).
What is imagery.
What is the author's tone of this passage:
"I look back at the bright red paint./T e r r o r i s t s./My vision blurs with tears./For the first time since I've been in America,/I wish I didn't read English" (Warga 275).
Wrathful, Jealous, or Sorrowful?
What is sorrowful.
Which type of conflict do we see in this passage:
"Mama puts her hand on her stomach./Jude, she says. I need you" (Warga 48).
Is it:
(A) Character vs. character
(B) Character vs. fate
(C) Character vs. supernatural
What is (B) character vs. fate.
"Sometimes she is friendly" (Warga 77).
Direct or indirect character trait?
What is direct.
What type of figurative language is shown here:
"On the seventh walk-by,/I decide to swallow my fear" (Warga 136).
What is an idiom.
What type of figurative language is shown here:
"I am a ticking time bomb" (Warga 233).
What is metaphor.
Who is the point of view character?
What is Jude
What type of conflict is shown here:
"I get up from the table/where I have been sitting/by myself/and run to the bathroom,/where I hide in a stall,/and sob/and wonder if this lonely ache/inside of me/will ever go away" (Warga 119).
What is character vs. self.
Is this an example of a direct or indirect character trait of Baba:
""I twirl around,/partly to be silly,/partly to avoid seeing the sadness/in Baba's eyes" (Warga 231).
What is an indirect character trait (inference).
What type of figurative language is shown here:
"I left my heart behind,/beating and lonely on the other side of the ocean" (Warga 83).
What is personification.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
What type of figurative language is shown here:
"There is an Arabic proverb that says:/Her luck splits open rocks" (Warga 116).
What is an allusion.
What are both.
What is the connotation of this passage:
"I am starting to feel like/I am drowning,/like I don't know how much longer/I can stay afloat" (Warga 273).
Positive, Neutral, or Negative?
What is negative.