Units 4-6
A peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify.
Starts with I
What is an idiosyncrasy?
Identify the error.
The dessert choices include: creme brulee, baked Alaska, and bananas foster, with ice cream.
What is the colon following include?
Questions used to engage the audience, but the speaker does not expect an answer.
What are Rhetorical Questions?
The song that initially motivated the animals to join together and rebel.
What is the Beasts of England?
The reason Gregor worked as a traveling salesman, a job he hated.
What is to pay off his parent's debt?
SYN: pervasive, universal
Starts with U.
What is ubiquitous?
Where a comma is NEEDED.
For thousands of years cooking was considered more of a practice than a science. Much of what chefs and food scientists alike knew about cooking came from conventional wisdom rather than carefully designed research.
What is after years?
Appeal using emotionally-charged diction to provoke a response by the audience.
What is pathos?
How Boxer dies.
What is the pigs sold him to a slaughterhouse?
Gregor's primary concern the morning that he awoke to find himself an insect.
What is how he would get to work or how late he was for work?
Synonyms: trick, ploy, subterfuge
Starts with S
What is stratagem?
What punctuation is needed.
This is an active crime scene therefore the press is still prohibited for entering.
What is a semi-colon before therefore and a comma after therefore?
Squealer explaining the the animals must have missed or misremembered the commandment about animals sleeping in beds.
What is rewriting or manipulating history? (Answers may vary.)
Three details of the setting of Camus' "The Guest"?
What is Algeria, on a remote plateau, during French-Algerian conflict, schoolhouse, etc.?
The philosophy in which an individual attempts to make meaning for themselves in a seemingly careless and meaningless world.
What is Existentialism?
With so little use, he doctor is concerned about possible ____________ of the shoulder muscles.
Starts with A
What is atrophy?
What punctuation change is needed.
I visited Paris, France, Paris, Texas, and Paris, Illinois.
What is change the commas after France and Texas to semicolons?
What is the appeal through which a speaker builds their credibility?
The (general) message scrawled on the blackboard at the close of "The Guest."
What is "You handed over our brother, you will pay for this"?
An example of irony in the novella.
Answers will vary.
Antonyms: honor, acclaim
What is ignominy?
The reason you need a common between gratifying and productive.
What a gratifying,productive day!
What are coordinate adjectives?
Using a sequence of identical constructions in writing/speaking.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
What is parallelism or parallel structure?
Reason why Daru (and Camus for that matter) felt caught between two worlds
What is Daru was born in Algeria but is of French (European) descent?
Or
What is identifies with colonizer AND colonized?
Two examples of what the framed image of the woman from the magazine can reveal about Gregor.
Answers may vary:
His desire to hold onto his humanity.
His lack of a romantic realtionship.