Vocabulary
Characters
World Politicians
Abstract terms
Literary terms
100
A person who goes or travels on foot; walker.
What is a pedestrian?
100
The name of the protagonist of Growing Up.
What is Russell Baker?
100
According to Baker, this person has a silly mustache.
What is Hitler?
100
Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.
What is Socialism?
100
A term used to designate a type of literature according to its subject matter. A category or type of literature. Literature is commonly divided into the following three major : Verse/Poetry Prose Drama
What is genre?
200
The study of religious faith, practice, and experience : the study of God and God's relation to the world.
What is a theology?
200
This is the youngest character.
What is Doris?
200
This important WWII figure comes from Italy and according to Baker, he has a "strut and bulbous jaw" and he tends to be "strutting like a rooster". :)
What is (Benito) Mussolini?
200
A system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party.
What is Communism?
200
Struggle between opposing forces that drives the action of the plot; may be external--one that pits a character against another character, a group of people, expectations of society, or nature. Or internal, one between opposing tendencies in the character's mind (e.g. a moral dilemma).
What is conflict?
300
Of or pertaining to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners.
What is blue-collar?
300
This character has silvery grey hair.
What is the man Baker meets at night in chapter 11?
300
The dictator of communist Russia.
What is Stalin?
300
A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
What is Fascism?
300
A brief or implicit reference to something outside the text. A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.
What is Allusion? (Writers often make allusions to the Bible, mythological figures, and Shakespearean plays.)
400
Strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable.
What is impregnable?
400
The character who says, "This is England's war. Let England fight it."
What is Baker's mother?
400
He was Prime Minister of Great Britain in September 1939 as Europe descended into World War Two
What is (Neville) Chamberlain?
400
Extreme intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.
What is bigotry?
400
A point by point comparison between two dissimilar things for the purpose of identifying a common relationship between the two and clarifying the less familiar of the subjects.
What is analogy?
500
The area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate.
What is baseball diamond?
500
This character's ignorance of the world "was remarkable".
What is R. Baker?
500
Born in 1882, died in 1945, he was the 32nd President of the United States and the only chief executive to be elected to more than two terms in office. He held the presidency from 1934-1945, leading the United States through the Great Depression and World War II.
What is (Franklin D.) Roosevelt? Further: His legislative program, the New Deal, greatly expanded the role of the federal government in American society. Franklin Roosevelt served as president of the United States for all but four months of World War II, leading the country through one of the most consequential periods in its history. Under Roosevelt's leadership, the nation rebounded from the devastating surprise attack at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, nearly achieving victory in both Europe and the Pacific by the time Roosevelt suddenly died of a cerebral hemorrhage on 12 April 1945. He was succeeded by his vice president, Harry S. Truman. Roosevelt was one of the most influential presidents of all time.
500
A set of ideas or beliefs that are taught or believed to be true.
What is doctrine?
500
The character or force that opposes the protagonist. May be another character, a force of nature, a group of people, or some part of the protagonist's personality, psyche or society.
What is antagonist?
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