Units 4-6
A peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify.
Starts with I
What is an idiosyncrasy?
Questions used to engage the audience, but the speaker does not expect an answer.
What are Rhetorical Questions?
Balducci's profession
What is a gendarme (police officer, guard, etc.)?
The reason Gregor worked as a traveling salesman, a job he hated.
What is to pay off his parent's debt?
The song that initially motivated the animals to join together and rebel.
What is the Beasts of England?
SYN: pervasive, universal
Starts with U.
What is ubiquitous?
Appeal using emotionally-charged diction to provoke a response by the audience.
What is pathos?
The reason the Arab is a prisoner
What is he killed his cousin?
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?
How Boxer dies
What is the pigs sold him to a slaughterhouse?
Synonyms: trick, ploy, subterfuge
Starts with S
What is stratagem?
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?
Becomes the scapegoat for all ills on the farm
Who is Snowball?
With so little use, he doctor is concerned about possible ____________ of the shoulder muscles.
Starts with A
What is atrophy?
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.
A close paraphrase of the single commandment at the close of the novel (not what the sheep bleat)
What is "All animals are equal. But some are more equal than others"?
Antonyms: honor, acclaim
What is ignominy?
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.
The names of BOTH farmers who represent the German leader (Hitler) and British/French leaders
Frederick and Pilkington