Short Stories
What species is the narrator of "The Wife's Story"?
A wolf
What is conflict?
Anything that causes a problem in literature
What are the two BIG types of conflict.
Internal and External
What is an Onomatopoeia?
Sound words
Epithet.
What is the Summary of The Lottery?
A town has a lottery drawing to see who dies. A woman is chosen and is hit with stones till she dies.
If someone needs to decide what to do, what type of conflict is that?
Man vs Self
A person fighting against AI would be what type of conflict?
Man vs Technology (Sascha vs chat gpt)
What is a pun?
Using sounds to make two meanings.
Give an example of Personfication
Anything where a non-human has human traits
Why does the village kill someone every year in "The Lottery"
They think that food will grow better if they do.
What are the two types of internal conflict?
Man vs Self
Man vs Destiny/God/Fate
What type of conflict is someone fighting against a normal dog?
Man vs nature
Give an example of Onomatopoeia
Any sound word. Meow, Woof, Bang, knock, etc etc
"Don't go out slide, it's cold out" is an example of what?
Malapropism
What is "The Lottery" saying about traditions?
Don't follow all traditions, it's okay to let traditions die, some traditions are bad, we should think about traditions
DOUBLE POINTS
What is man vs supernatural?
People fighting anything we can't prove to be real. (Aliens, magic, monsters, etc)
If two people are fighting, what kind of Conflict is that?
Man vs Man
"I've got a new set of wheels outside" is an example of what?
Synecdoche
What is a Semordnilap?
A word that makes a new word if you spell it backwards. God-->Dog
What can we learn from "The Wife's Story"
Don't make assumptions, Get all the information first, Don't judge a book by it's cover.
What is Man vs Destiny?
People fighting against fate, god. Someone is trying to fight against what the world has said they just do
What are the five types of external conflict?
Man vs Man, Man vs Society, Man vs Nature, Man vs Technology, Man vs Supernatural
What is a palindrome?
A word or sentence that is the same spelled backward or forward
What is Metonymy?
Using a word related to something to talk about it. "The crown instead of A king"
What can we learn from The Eyes Have it?
Don't be so literal. Think more creatively, etc etc
Name all Seven types of conflict
Man vs Man, Man vs Nature, Man vs Society, Man vs Supernatural, Man vs Technology, Man vs Self, Man vs Destiny
What type of Conflict is in Shadow of the Batgirl?
Man vs Self, Man vs Man, Man vs Destiny, Anything you can defend, to be honest.
What is Personification?
Giving human traits to non-humans
Give an example of Overstatement and Understantement
Overstatement: Small--> Big
Understatement: Big--> Small