My Favorite Chaperone
What is the main characters name?
Maya
Who does the narrator kill in the story?
the old man
What is Joby's role in the upcoming battle?
to play the drums
Frederick Douglass was born a what?
A slave
Who lies dead in the poem?
The Captain
What country does the main family immigrate from?
Kazakhstan
How does the narrator get caught in the story?
He hears the beating of the dead body's heart and tears up the floor board where he had hid it
What war provides the historical backdrop for this story?
The American Civil War
Who taught Douglass to read?
Mrs. Auld. His master's wife.
Who does the Captain represent in the poem?
Abraham Lincoln
Which rising action leads to embarrassment for the main character?
When her father catches her play fighting with her male classmates.
Describing the room as "as black as pitch" is an example of which literacy device?
simile
Surprise Question:
What is Mr. Garcia's first name and can you say it correctly in one try?
Hazael
Why did the master want to keep Douglass from learning to read?
He wanted to keep him powerless and ignorant
What does the voyage represent in the poem?
The American Civil War
The climax of the story is when?
When the main character's brother, Nurzhan, asks their parents if she can go to the dance. The parents agree on the condition of him being the chaperone
The story uses repetition, such as the heartbeat being "quicker and quicker and louder and louder" in order to increase what?
suspence
How does Joby's emotions change after the General calls him, "The heart of the army"?
from fearful and full of doubt to determined and ready
What does "unabated" mean?
What is a EULOGY?
A spoken or written work meant to honor someone who recently died.
What is the main conflict and what does it represent?
The main character wants to get her parents permission to go to the school dance. It would represent her parents softening on American culture.
What do we call the narrator of a story who might be lying, does not know all the facts, or is unstable?
an unreliable narrator
What literary device shifts in the second half of the story?
mood
This excerpt suggests the idea that knowledge is connected to what?
Power and freedom
O Captain! My Captain! is an example of what literary device?
An extended metaphor