The Fifth Season
Ykka is the leader of this comm along with a fairly familiar stone eater
What is Castrima?
When Judith Butler uses this word, she means that our “identity is instituted through a repetition of acts.”
What is (gender) performativity?
This short story about the encounter a doctor has with a young patient and her parents is written by a well-known poet
What is “The Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams?
A name for the sentence or sentences that state the main argument of a paper
What is a thesis?
How you emphasize names of long works (full-length performances, books etc.) in MLA
What is italicize or underline?
This character from the book went by the name Binoff as a younger person
Who is Tonkee?
This concept is used by Hortense Spillers to describe the bodies of people whose lives and reproduction are commodified by slavery
What is flesh?
“Bloodchild” was written by this renowned African American science fiction writer
Who is Octavia Butler?
Quotations, paraphrase and summary are all ways to present this
What is evidence or support (of your thesis or main argument)?
What needs to be cited in-text and at the end of your paper
What is everything (that is not your own idea)?
A verb that names the sense that only orogenes have and which can be used to move their geographic surroundings
What is sessing?
This is the focus of much of the late French philosopher Michel Foucault’s historical writing
What is power?
In the Fifth Season, Syenite does something that recalls a similar situation in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
What is kill her child?
The genre of argumentation in which you consider the effectiveness and/or significance of a film, book or piece of art
What is an evaluation?
Sentences with more than one independent clause require this
What is (proper) punctuation?
This orogene character is beside a stone eater in both the prologue and end of the book
Who is Alabaster?
Thomas Jefferson’s concept of freedom responds to imbalance in the power of two different nations, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s responds to the different rights granted to two different races, and Karl Marx’s responds to the access that two different social _______ have to the means of production in capitalism
What are classes?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s short story “Harrison Bergeron” includes a critique of the emotionally numbing capacities of this technology. Hint: it also plays an important role in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
What is television?
This genre of argumentation might examine a story through a variety of approaches and may focus on character, plot structure, setting, metaphor or symbolism
What is literary analysis?
You should begin another paragraph if there is a new topic or action, a different person speaking or if there is a change in this
What is scale?