Lit Terms
The part of plot that includes the introduction of the characters and the setting.
What is the exposition?
Find the direct object in the following sentence.
As I was sitting at the lunch table, I passed Jerry a fry.
What is a fry?
January 1st to Haitians.
When is Independence Day?
The reason why Haitians in New York go outside in a blizzard.
What is the Duvalier regime ending?
The allusion used to describe Yang's new house.
What is Little House on the Prairie?
A true story about the author's life with a focus on personal experience and observations.
What is a memoir?
Find the indirect object in the following sentence.
In the heat of the moment, I threw Steve the ball.
Who is Steve?
The reason why half the audience goes wild during the World Cup.
What is the Haitians score on the Italians?
The reason why immigrants can contact their birth country more often.
What is better communication technology?
Maya's favorite chaperone.
Who is Nurzhan?
The way an author reveals the traits and personality of the characters.
What is characterization?
Is "silver" in the following sentence a predicate adjective or predicate noun?
The forest appeared silver in the moonlight.
What is the predicate adjective?
The author's purpose in writing Bonne Annee.
What is to share his feelings about being an immigrant in the US?
What immigrants need to get a good job in America.
What is the importance of English?
Yang's official diagnosis.
What is baby lupus?
To inform, to persuade, to entertain, and to express thoughts and feelings.
What is the author's purpose?
Identify "surprised" in the following sentence.
Surprised by the question, she tried to formulate a response.
What is a participle?
When the author feels the most Haitian.
What is during the World Cup?
What is financial and cultural?
The sign of Mama's cultural compromise in "My Favorite Chaperone."
What is the bracelet?
An indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work.
What is an allusion?
Identify the appositive in the following sentence.
The mighty mammoth, a huge elephant-like creature, was fully suited for the cold weather.
What is "a hug elephant-like creature?"
The author of Bonne Annee.
Who is Jean-Pierre Benoit?
Why the author uses the subheading "The Right Move" in A Place to Call Home.
What is the majority of immigrants believe they made the right decision in moving to the United States?
Maya wants to go to the Spring Fling.
What is the story's conflict?