Terms
Miscellaneous
Happy Endings
Currents
The Circular Ruins
100
The conversation of characters in a literary work (usually composed within quotation marks).
What is Dialogue?
100
Name of the character in Saul Bellows story "Something to Remember Me By"
Who is Louie?
100
In story 'A,' they are lovers and the parents of two children.
Who are John and Mary?
100
What Gary is drinking at the beginning of the story.
What is Malt?
100
The author of this story.
Who is Jorge Luis Borges?
200
The turning point of the action in the plot of a story. Represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
What is climax?
200
The discrepancy between what is perceived and what is revealed; language and situations that seem to reverse normal expectations.
What is irony?
200
In story 'B,' they continually tell Mary that she needs to let go of John and that he is cheating on her.
Who are Mary's friends?
200
The seasonal setting of the story.
What is a simple summer day?
200
The earthly name of the manifold god.
What is fire?
300
A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea. Often writers use it throughout a work to suggest states of feeling and to convey implications of thought and action.
What is Imagery?
300
Helen Keller had a difficult childhood due to her multiple disabilities, and her life turned around when she met Anne Sullivan. Helen led a full life dedicate to fearless activism that opens wide the doors of possible and hope for people with disabilities.
1) but 2) dedicated 3) possibility
300
In story 'C,' he is the younger male that Mary is interested in. He also has a rad motorcycle.
Who is James?
300
Gary mistakes the dead boy's brown hair for this.
What is seaweed?
300
After the failure of the sorcerer's first attempt to create a man he begins dreaming about this body part.
What is heart?
400
The unified structure of incidents in a literary work.
What is plot?
400
What the main character in Zein's short story "Doors Closing" pulls out from his backpack?
What are knitting materials?
400
In story 'E,' Mary devotes herself to this after the death of Fred.
What is charity work?
400
The nationality of the boy whose hand one of the girls in the story was holding.
What is Filipino?
400
What the sorcerer orders his creation to put atop a mountaintop.
What is flag?
500
A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
What is figurative language?
500
As a child, he showed a keen interest in football. He often persuades his reluctant father to take him to Malaysia Cup matches and training sessions. Since Fandi started off as a goalkeeper like his father, he has switched to an attacking midfield or forward position by the time he played for his school team. The teacher in his primary school recommends him to join the Milo Soccer Scheme for talent young footballers, but his first application was unsuccessful.
1) persuaded 2) Although 3) had 4) recommended 5) talented
500
What the narrator describes as "a what and a what and a what."
What is plot?
500
The phrase repeatedly used to begin each paragraph (except for the first).
What is "Before That?"
500
The only food (not fruit) given to the sorcerer to eat (Hint: It is given by the woodcutters).
What is rice?
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