Complexity
When there are two contrasting qualities in a text that lead to the meaning of the text as a whole.
What is complexity?
The acronym S/D/B stand for...
What is Says/ Does/ Because?
A repetition of sounds that offers a play on words and creates a smooth flow.
What is Rhyme?
The fairy who creates the conflict between the lovers.
Who is Puck/Oberon?
To have a strong effect on something or someone.
What is impact?
Literary elements specific to determining the complexity.
What is irony, juxtaposition, antithesis, and paradox? Etc answers accepted
Restating the quote and stating the literary element being used.
What is says?
Describing inanimate objects with human or animal like qualities.
What is Personification?
Name a major theme of a "Midsummer Nights Dream".
What is magic, love, jealousy, imagination, and patriarchy? Etc answers accepted
An educated guess based on a fact.
What is inference?
Identify three texts we read this year that contain complexity.
What is “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”, "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", and "The House on Mango Street"? Etc answers accepted
The part where you explain the action of the literary element.
What is does?
The author's purposeful choice of words.
What is diction?
The difference in Hippolyta portrayal in the play and her title.
What is despite being a Queen she didn't have power?
A detailed examination of the elements or structure of something.
What is analysis?
Name two complex traits of the sirens in the text “A Siren’s Song” By Margaret Atwood.
What is scared yet frightening, persuasive yet pleading, and etc? Etc answers accepted
The difference between “does” and “because”.
What is does is the action of the literary element and because is the purpose/why the author uses it?
Words with direct contrast between each other.
What is antithesis?
People are so concerned about Bottom whereabouts during the wedding because .....
What is Bottoms is the only Athenian man capable of playing the role of Pyramus at Hippolyta and Theseus’ wedding which is why everyone is attempting to find where he is?
A literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy.
What is magical realism?
Identify a complexity in “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”.
What is the villagers hated him, yet they used him? Etc answers are accepted if deemed valid.
You must include ______ in the analysis.
Acceptable answers: What is Literary elements, thesis, and S/D/B verbs? Etc answers accepted
A symbol used to represent a concept, usually the symbol it takes form of is closely related to that concept.
What is metonymy?
Oberon plan to gain control of the Indian child.
What is Oberon orders Puck to put the flower juice on Titania’s eyes so she has a loss of control over herself. This will allow Oberon to easily get control over the Indian prince?
A 4 line poem structure.
What is Quatrain?