Style Definitions
A repeated element throughout a text.
What is a motif?
"Mostly, though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells"
The location where the family goes first after leaving their home before arriving at the camp.
What is the Horse Racing Track?
The number of presidents who have served two terms.
What is 21?
A comparison without like or as
Metaphor
"She took out her handkerchief and wiped her mouth. Her lips left a dark stain on the cloth. She put the cork back in the bottle."
What is a motif?
The last name of the only girl who writers to the boy in camp. It is also the name of a U.S. President.
Who is Roosevelt?
The only food that can never go bad.
What is honey?
Giving an inanimate object human traits
Personification
"She was laughing, and her hair was loose and red and blowing behind her in the wind. The girl leaned out the window and shouted 'hey!' but the woman did not hear her."
What is juxtaposition?
The boy is not allowed to say this in the camp.
What is the name of the Emperor?
The year the first iPhone was released.
What is 2007?
When a readers expectations are the opposite of the outcome in a story
Situational irony
"She could hear thunder in the distance - thunder and, from somewhere far off in the night, the faint wail of a siren"
What is foreshadowing?
The name of the boy's elementary school teacher in the camps.
Who is Mrs. Delaney?
The colder of the two places: North or South Pole.
What is the South Pole?
A reference to a famous person, place, or thing outside of a text
Allusion
"There were only the three: the painting of Princess Elizabeth..., the painting of Jesus,... and a framed reproduction of Millet's The Gleaners"
What is an allusion?
The town the family lived in prior to going to the camps.
What is Berkeley, CA?
The missing reindeer: Dasher, _______, Prancer, _______, Comet, Cupid, ________, and Blitzen.