Short Stories
What was the name of the protagonist in the short story "A Raven Flies South"?
Raven
This is the term for inserting earlier scenes or events into the normal order of a story to provide extra background information.
A flashback
The short film entitled "For Angela", where a mother and daughter are harassed by teens on a city bus, taught us that what part of the body is considered a sacred connection to the Creator in some First Nations cultures?
Hair
This is the term for a piece of punctuation that can be used to inquire or ask about something.
A question mark
According to Canadian law, 'EXIT' signs indicating the exit door of a building can only be one of two colours. Name these two colours.
Green or red.
From the short story "The Animal People Choose a Leader", name THREE of the animals/birds mentioned in the story.
Wapoose (rabbit), Eagle, Buffalo, Wolverine, Cougar, Horse, Squirrel
Hyperbole such as "I haven't eaten lunch and I'm starving" or "I have tons of homework" are examples of extreme ___________.
Exaggeration
This term beginning with the letter 'C' describes the process of European settlers arriving in North America and forcing Indigenous people to live according to European customs and values.
Colonization
This piece of punctuation is used when borrowing a quote word-for-word from a source of research, in order to avoid claims of plagiarism.
Quotation marks
This is the current name of the company previously known as Facebook.
Meta
In the short story "An Amazing Sense of Shake", the protagonist struggles with upsetting visions of the future that ultimately come true. Which of the six types of conflict does this struggle represent? (Person vs. ____)
Person vs. the supernatural OR person vs. self
This is the term for a 'dad joke' or play on words such as "Everyone loves the mushroom because he's such a fun guy (fungi)"
A pun
In the short story "A Raven Flies South", the protagonist makes a sacred offering to the Creator as a request for help. He only has access to Cheerios, but they are meant to substitute what sacred plant?
Tobacco
This piece of punctuation can be used to replace the word 'and' when two separate sentences are related to the same topic (ie We are going to the beach AND you can come if you don't have to work).
A semicolon (We are going to the beach; you can come if you don't have to work)
This blood type is known as the universal donor, because it can be safely donated to people of all blood types.
O negative
The setting of a story is made up of three parts: the location where the story takes place (where), the specific circumstances going on in this location (what), and this third part.
The time or 'when' the story takes place.
This is the term for an indirect comparison of two unlike things WITHOUT using the words 'like' or 'as' (such as calling a lazy person a 'couch potato')
This is the term for a heated, dome-shaped structure used by Indigenous peoples for purification rituals. HINT: we saw them used in an episode of First Contact.
A sweat lodge.
Name one of the two pieces of punctuation that should never appear in a formal, academic piece of writing EXCEPT if used as part of a borrowed quote.
Exclamation mark or dash
The national animal of Canada is the beaver. The national animal of Scotland is this mythical creature that does not actually exist in the natural world.
The unicorn
What is the theme in Animal People Choose a Leader?
Answers will vary- Ms. Turner will verify
This term refers to a reference to something in literature or pop culture.
Allusion
This two-word term was the job title for the White person whose job it was to give status First Nations people permission to leave their reserves. This person gave passes outlining when the First Nations person could leave the reserve, and when they must be back in order to avoid being arrested.
Indian agent
Without referring to your foldable, list the 10 pieces of punctuation we were responsible for learning this semester (HINT: remember there were 8 foldable flaps; the first flap represented THREE different pieces of punctuation)
Period, question mark, exclamation mark, quotation marks, comma, semicolon, colon, apostrophe, dash, parentheses
According to a poll conducted by Instacart, this is the most disliked food in America.
Anchovies