What is Tet?
Vietnamese new year celebrated with food, family, traditional games, and more.
What does prejudice mean?
To judge or hate something/someone without knowing or understanding them.
What is another word for the main character of a narrative?
Protagonist
What is the term for comparing two items using like or as?
Simile
What is a noun?
A person, place, or thing
Why was Ha's father away from his family?
He was captured by the North Vietnamese.
What was the name for the set of laws that created legal segregation?
Jim Crow laws
What is the climax of a story?
The point of most tension; the highest point of conflict in a story
What piece of figurative language was used here?
Hyperbole
What is the difference between denotation and connotation?
Denotation is the dictionary definition, and connotation is the feeling (positive or negative) associated with the word.
What did brother Khoi take to remind him of home in Vietnam?
A baby chicken
What three rules are required for a theme to be correct?
1) Full, complete idea about life
2) Taken directly from the text
3) Universal (applicable to anyone)
What is a dynamic character?
A character that changes their personality over time.
"Oh twist my arm, I guess."
What piece of figurative language was used?
Idiom
What is the difference between mood and tone?
Mood is the emotion that the readers are meant to feel while tone is the emotion set by the characters in the story.
Ha has family in France and Canada, but her mom chooses to live in America. Why is that?
The promise of education and jobs.
Who is Han Solo's boss that Luke stands up to Return of the Jedi, setting both Han and thousands of captives free across the galaxy?
Jabba the Hutt
What are the different types of point of view?
First person, third person limited, third person omniscient
(second person is rarely used)
"Love is a battlefield" is an example of what piece of figurative language?
Metaphor
What is a counterclaim?
An acknowledgement and refutation (rebuttal) against the opposite side that you're arguing with.
IE: While some people may believe ABC, actually XYZ is still the best because...
Vu Lee has two main passions in the novel. What are both of them?
Karate and cooking.
Name one true, historical figure that took a stand for a cause, what they stood for, and what happened because they stood up for it. You cannot use MLK.
Answers will vary.
What causes a plot diagram to rise and fall over time (what is it tracking)?
Conflict (the problem)
I posted on Facebook about how bad Facebook is.
What piece of figurative language is used in the example?
Irony
What is a dependent clause?
A group of word with a subject and a clause that is not a complete.