Nonfiction
Tuesdays with Morrie
Lord of the Flies
Keystone Vocab
100

What is a first-person written account of a person's life from a specific time or memory?

Memoir

100

Who is the author of Tuesdays with Morrie?

Mitch Albom

100

Lord of the Flies is an extended metaphor comparing "the beast" to the inner darkness that lives within all human beings.  That makes it an ...

ALLEGORY 

100

A person, animal, or inanimate object portrayed in a literary work

Character

200

What are are elements of a non-fiction work that help organize information? 

Text Features

200

What do we call the short statements that are very deep in meaning that Morrie says a lot throughout the book? 

Aphorisms

200

Who wrote Lord of the Flies?

William Golding

200

a word that means the opposite of another word 

antonym

300

What makes a memoir majorly different than an autobiography? 

They are not fact checked!

300

What is the name of the interviewer who comes to interview Morrie for TV?

Ted Koppel 

300

What is the climax of Lord of the Flies?

When the boys kill Simon 
300

an implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place, or event 

allusion 

400

What is the text feature that explains through words what is shown in an illustration? 

Caption

400

What is the name of the university where Morrie taught at and what course did he teach?

Brandeis & Sociology 

400

What do Ralph, Piggy, Simon, and Jack represent?

Ralph - Civilization in society 

Piggy - Intelligence in society 

Simon - Purity/Wisdom

Jack - Evil in Society 

400

One or more letters occurring as a bound form attached to the beginning, end, or base of a word and serving to produce a derivative word or an inflectional form 

Affix 

500

What are the three characteristics of a memoir?

Written in first-person pov, authors utilize "show don't tell," theme is present throughout 

500

Morrie is struggling with ALS.  What do the letters ALS stand for?

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 

500
What does Simon's death represent?

...

500

An author's choice of words, phrases, sentence structures and figurative language, which combine to create meaning and tone 

Diction 

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