Biblical/Creation Texts
Life of Pi
Non-Fiction/Poetry Terms
Short Stories
Mr. Ackerman, B.A.
100
It lasted for 40 days and nights.
What is The Flood?
100
The tiger's name
What is Richard Parker?
100
The repetition of a sound at the beginning of adjacent words.
What is Alliteration?
100
The name of the man who turns into a giant bug.
What is Gregor?
100
Mr. Ackerman's age.
What is 22?
200
The bird that does not return to Noah
What is a Raven
200
The name of the boat that sinks, leaving Pi to survive in the life-raft.
What is the Tsimtsum?
200
A rhetorical strategy that appeals to a reader's emotions
What is Pathos?
200
The assumed name of the handsomest drowned man.
What is Esteban?
200
Mr. Ackerman's dog's name.
What is Buddy?
300
The name of the book in which creation and the flood are depicted.
What is Genesis?
300
One of Pi's staple foods on the boat; its blood is nutritious
What is a Sea Turtle
300
A rhetorical strategy that appeals to a reader's reason
What is Logos?
300
A literary movement in which absurdities and strange events are accepted in the rational world
What is Magical Realism
300
Mr. Ackerman's favorite student.
What is All Of You?
400
The builder of the giant ship in the Epic of Gilgamesh
Who is Utnapishtim
400
Pi's first big violation of his Hindu beliefs
What is eating Meat?
400
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole, or vice versa.
What is Synecdoche?
400
The year in which Kafka published The Metamorphosis
What is 1915?
400
Mr. Ackerman's place of birth.
What is San Francisco
500
The sign of a covenant between God and Humankind.
What is a Rainbow?
500
Pi's hometown
What is Pondicherry?
500
A writing style where the author uses "you" to speak to the reader.
What is Direct Address?
500
The author of "Story of an Hour"
Who is Kate Chopin?
500
Mr. Ackerman's brother's name
What is Daniel
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