Interpreter of Maladies
This person is married to Shukumar.
Who is Shoba?
This word, meaning "room" in Italian, is a group of lines in a poem (similar to a paragraph in prose)
What is "stanza"?
This is the total amount of money the Youngers are expecting from the insurance payout.
What is $10,000?
The location of Hannah's room.
What is the attic?
Walter Younger does NOT want his eggs prepared in this way.
What is scrambled?
Mr. Pirzada's family lives in this city.
What is Dacca?
The following lines contain an example of this poetic device:
"In New England, the Graveyard
Hotel: haunted by all your ancestors."
What is "enjambment"?
These two characters vie for Beneatha's affections.
Who are Joseph Asagai and George Murchison (or: Joseph and George)
This is Jack's mother's profession.
What is a doctor?
Mrs. Sen prepares these two "kid-friendly" food for Eliot's snack.
What are peanut butter&cracker and popsicles?
The narrator of "The Third and Final Continent" works at this American university.
What is MIT?
In a piece of fiction, we call it a narrator. In a piece of poetry, we call it THIS.
What is a "speaker"?
This racist guy doesn't want the Youngers moving into his neighborhood.
Who is Lindner?
This character finds Nath drunk on the side of the road, and brings him home.
Who is Officer Fiske?
Jack offers this candy to Nath, who accepts it.
When Mrs. Croft tells you they landed on the moon, this is how you should reply.
What is "Splendid!"
Language appealing to one of the five senses.
What is imagery?
This is a jazz nightclub Walter visits at night -- where he both admires/envies the musicians.
These are the three "tokens" Marilyn brings with her when she leaves her family in 1966.
What is a marble, a button, and a barrette?
This phrase completes the line:
"Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like __________?"
What is "rotten meat"?
This is the name of child that Mr. Das did NOT father (and the child who is attacked by hungry monkeys).
What is Bobby?
If a poet uses anaphora, they use the same word or phrase in this places/in these places in the poem.
What is the beginning of successive lines?
On moving day, this is the gift Travis gets for his grandmother.
What is a gardening hat?
This is the school James Lee attended, at which both his father and mother worked.
What is Lloyd Academy?
Shukumar makes this Indian lamb "bright paprika stew" and set the table with birthday candles in "A Temporary Matter"
What is rogan josh?