Nonfiction & Memoirs
Memoir
A personal story about a person’s life, providing a more specific timeline than an autobiography. Typically less formal in style, more concerned with emotional truth than factual events.
The rhetorical appeal focused on logic
logos
The Lord of the Flies
Pig's head on a stick; A symbol of the beast—the evil inside the boys
The position with the greatest authority on the island
Chief
What item allows the boys to make fire on the island?
Piggy's glasses
When you acknowledge a reason someone might hold an opinion different from yours and you address it with a direct argument against that reason.
Counterargument
What does it mean that your thesis should SLAP?
It should be significant, limited, arguable, and precise
The boy who is hunted alone by all of the others
Ralph
The boy who most hates Ralph and Piggy
Roger
The boy who has the strongest connection to civilization throughout the novel
Piggy
Identify the logical fallacy: Because Sara Izquierdo and Sara Sabogal have brown eyes, everyone who is named Sara must have brown eyes
Hasty Generalization
What does it mean to “agree to disagree”?
To decide to not allow differing opinions to affect a relationship
The boy who most appreciates the beauty of the island and refuses to engage in violence
Simon
At the end of Lord of the Flies, what causes the naval officer to come to find them on the island?
He sees the smoke from the fire
The symbol of order that the boys must have to speak at the beginning of the novel
The Conch
Identify the logical fallacy: Andrés reads philosophy to his baby sister. Therefore, Lucas will learn to play the guitar.
Non Sequitur
What is wrong with this parenthetical citation?
In Fitzgerald’s novel, as Nick tries to find a metaphor for Daisy's voice, Gatsby supplies, "Her voice is full of money." (127)
The period is misplaced. It should go after the parentheses.
What Samneric really saw when they thought that they saw the “beast from air”
The parachuter
Which character is killed after being the only one not to give in to temptation?
Simon
What is wrong with this parenthetical citation: Tom finally realizes that Daisy is in love with another man when she tells her lover that he always looks so cool and compares him to an advertisement (Fitzgerald, 125).
There should not be a comma in the parenthetical citation. It should just be (Fitzgerald 125).
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Identify the type of biblical parallelism in the following verse: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, / and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.”
Repetition
The young boy who forgets his own name at the end of the book
Percival Wemys Madison
Why does Ralph cry at the end of the novel?
He knows his childhood innocence is gone and that the human heart is evil, and he is sad that Piggy is dead
Who Betray Ralph’s location to the hunters at the end of the novel
Samneric