Things Fall Apart
What was used as currency?
Cowries
What is Elie's birthplace called?
Sighet
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
hypophora
A rhetorical question that is answered.
Who wrote Alice in Wonderland?
Lewis Carroll
What is an efulefu?
The original one of these was in Venice
Ghetto
"Rainbow drops - suck 'them and you can spit in six different colours."
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
allusion
What is a reference to another work of literature, person, event called?
What famous dystopian novel was written by Aldous Huxley?
Brave New World
Why was Ezinma seen as an ogbanje?
She had periods of sickness
(ogbanje = a wicked child, who when they died, entered their mother's womb to be born again.)
What are the names of Elie Wiesel's older sisters?
Hilda and Bea
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
1984 by George Orwell
euphemism
a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
What is the title of the second novel in The Lord of the Rings trilogy?
The Two Towers
What happened in Abame?
The clan killed a white man and tied up his 'iron horse'. Then the village was massacred.
Who did Elie call 'our first oppressors'?
The Hungarian police
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
antithesis
A rhetorical device in which two ideas are contrasted, using parallel sentence structures.
"Four legs good, two legs bad" is a quote from which George Orwell novel?
Animal Farm
What is the name which translated means 'Mother is supreme'?
Nneka
Where were the foreign jews taken to (including Moishe the Beadle) and killed in 1941?
The Galician forest
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
modality
The degree of certainty or confidence that is expressed in language.
Which Shakespeare play has the famous stage direction, 'Exit pursued by a bear'?
The Winter's Tale