Vocabulary
To wear away.
What is erode?
Ben Okri is a poet from _____
What is Nigeria.
What is the name of the protagonist (main character)?
What is Fisher?
In literature this is the opposite of what is expected.
What is irony?
What did Venus and Fisher find at the end of the story?
What is "the last real water in left in the world.?
To destroy.
What is decimate?
This significant event occurred in Ben Okri's homeland between 1967 - 1970.
What was the Nigerian Civil War?
The point of view from which this story, "The Secret Source" has been written.
What is third person?
The author's attitude towards a topic or subject.
What is tone?
This describes the texture of the corrupted liquid feel when rubbed between their fingers.
What is "too finished and slippery?"
An underground crypt (a stone room or vault beneath the floor of a church, or inside an aboveground tomb or mausoleum, used as a burial place for coffins, sarcophagi, or relics)
What is catacombs?
Ben Okri uses this genre of literature to convey the social and political chaos in the country of his birth.
What is Magic Realism?
Fill in the blank: It seems we are becoming a nation with a remarkable convergence of views. ________ has all but disappeared.”
What is dissent?
The emotional feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
What is mood?
What happens to the friends who go to the university to test the water?
What is "their messages cease and everything goes silent."
To surrender.
What is capitulate?
This style of storytelling mixes a realistic, everyday world with magical or supernatural events.
What is Magic Realism?
Where do Venus and Fisher initially send their group members to get the water officially analyzed?
What is "to the university?"
In literature choosing specific words to make the reader or listener feel a strong emotion.
What os emotive language?
This headline catches Fisher’s eye from a window or news source during their ordeal.
What is "The Water Wars?"
A word or phrase used to label someone or something contemptuously (dislike or disrespect).
What is epithet?
Ben Okri was once famously quoted as saying this phrase.
What is "Literature teachers a nation to know itself.”
What change do Venus and Fisher first notice happening to the general populace?
What is "they are becoming more passive and less inclined to question things?"
A figure of speech that directly compares two different things by stating that one thing is another.
What is metaphor?
This is the characters' primary goal once they suspect the truth about the liquid?
What is "to find water that is untouched and pure?"