Vocab
What is a quest?
Seeking something important, often involves a journey
What is theme?
the message, moral, or lesson of a story
What is the difference between a line and a stanza?
A line is the individual lines in the poem (often numbered), the stanza is the chunk of lines in a poem
What does inspire mean?
To fill someone with confidence or desire to do something
What was the theme of "The Broken Sphere"?
Resourcefulness and self reliance are necessary when facing a challenge
We use (letters/numbers) to mark rhyme pattern and we use (letters/numbers) to mark rhythm.
letters- rhyme pattern, numbers- rhythm
What does obscure mean:
Most of the crew declined to enter its obscure darkness, preferring the known hilltop near the whale’s mouth to the unknown of the forest.
A. endless, B. Tangled, C. Refreshing, D. Mysterious
Mysterious
What are some common themes in literature?
Good vs Evil, Money can't buy happiness, Growing up, Be careful what you wish for
What does "floundering" mean?
Floundering deep in the sump-holes, stumbling out again
A. fishing, B. Stumbling, C. Crying, D. Stepping
b. stumbling
What does novelty mean:
I thirsted after novelty and hungered to know what lay outside the sphere of my experience.
A. familiar place, B. Drinkable liquid, C. new experience, D. general truth
C. New experience