Billy Elliot
He directed both the original 2000 feature film and the smash-hit stage musical.
Who is Stephen Daldry?
This module explores the relationship between language, identity and ________.
What is culture?
Who is the main character of Curious Incident?
Who is Christopher Boone?
This writing principle encourages writers to reveal emotions through actions rather than explaining them.
What is show-don't-tell?
How many days are in a leap year?
What is 366?
Billy trades his boxing gloves for ballet shoes in the class taught by this sharp-tongued instructor.
Who is Mrs. Wilkinson?
This poetic feature involves repeating sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
Christopher and his father live in this actual, large town in Wiltshire, England.
Where is Swindon?
Giving human qualities to non-human things is called this.
What is personification?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the pacific ocean?
Billy's father and brother Tony are deeply involved in this historic labor dispute that forms the story's backdrop.
What is the UK miners' strike (1984–1985)?
This poem focuses on inherited memory and family storytelling.
What is mother?
Wellington was fatally pierced through with this ordinary piece of lawn maintenance equipment.
What is garden fork?
A repeated image or object throughout a story is called this.
What is motif?
Capital of Chile
Santiago
During a dream sequence, Billy performs a breathtaking pas de deux with an adult version of himself to a piece from this Tchaikovsky ballet.
What is Swan Lake?
This poet explores Chinese-Australian identity through symbolism and cultural memory in Translucent Jade.
Who is Maureen Tan?
Christopher runs away because he learns his father committed this crime, making him fear for his own safety
What is killing Wellington?
This imagery focuses on touch.
What is tactile imagery?
On average, what is the thing that Americans do 22 times a day?
What is 'Open the fridge'?
When asked how he feels when he dances, Billy sings this show-stopping number about flying and electricity.
What is "Electricity"?
This concept describes the conversation between texts and ideas across the anthology.
The book’s title is a direct quote from a Sherlock Holmes short story written by this legendary author.
Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
An exaggeration used for emphasis.
What is a hyperbole?
Who won the 2006 FIFA World Cup?
What is Germany?