Composers
Who wrote The Tell-Tale Heart?
Edgar Allan Poe
Identify the language technique:
The river shone like a satin ribbon.
Simile
A watch's minute hand moves more quickly than did mine.
The narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart
What sort of text has a name derived from the Latin verb discurrere which means “to run about”,
Discursive texts
What is a semaphore?
The use of an apparatus to create a visual signal transmitted over distance (such as flags, arm movements etc)
Who wrote The Book Thief?
Markus Zusak
Identify the language technique:
The fire was a hungry beast, consuming all that lay before it.
Metaphor
The trouble is, who could ever replace me?
Death in The Book Thief
What is it called when a narrator's telling of events is inaccurate or questionable?
Unreliable narrator
In The Things They Carried, what did Norman Bowker carry that was given to him as a gift by Mitchell Sanders?
A thumb
Who wrote The Things They Carried?
Tim O'Brien
Identify the language technique:
Five farmers fixed the fence.
Alliteration
Home! She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from.
The narrator in Eveline.
What word is given to the high point of the action in a narrative?
Climax
From the Book Thief:
First the colours.
Then the _________ (?)
That's usually how I see things.
Humans
Who wrote the short story, Eveline?
James Joyce
Identify the language technique:
Winter crept across the land, stealing the leaves from the trees.
Personification
I woke up feeling like death. Ironically appropriate, given what the day held in store.
The narrator, Claudia Valentine, in The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender
What name is given to the narrative style that tries to capture the natural flow of a character's extended thought process, often by incorporating sensory impressions, incomplete ideas, unusual syntax, and rough grammar.
Stream of Consciousness
What word is given to the arrangement of words, clauses and phrases to make sentences.
Syntax
Who wrote the poem, Small Rituals?
Katherine Gallagher
Identify the language technique:
My uncle hunkered under the umbrella until there was a lull in the thunder.
Assonance
This is the hottest summer I can remember, and the thick heat seems to seep in and keep in my sleepout. It's like the earth's core in here. The only relief comes from the cooler air that creeps in between the slim slats of my single window.
The narrator, Charlie Bucktin, in Jasper Jones
How old was the boy mentioned in the poem, Small Rituals, by Katherine Gallagher?
Thirteen
In the short story, Eveline, where was Frank going to take Eveline?
Buenos Aires