Reading
When a narrator uses "I" or "Me," the story is written in this perspective.
What is First Person?
This is a way to tell the reader which character is speaking a line of dialogue.
What is a speaker tag or attribution?
This is the leading character in a novel or short story.
What is a protagonist?
This is the only U.S. university with a mythical bird mascot.
What is the University of Kansas?
A place, state, or condition that is ideally perfect in respect of politics, laws, customs, and conditions.
What is a utopia?
When the narrator uses "she, he, they," the story is written in this perspective.
What is Third Person?
This tells you the main idea of the topic/ what the writer will be proving in an essay.
What is the Thesis Statement?
This kind of literary device is featured in the sentence, "My brother is fast like a cheetah."
What is a simile?
What is the coldest state in the USA?
What is Alaska
In this type of dystopian control, one or more large corporations control society through products, advertising, and/or the media.
What is corporate control?
This is the genre that Orwell's 1984 fits into.
What is dystopian fiction?
This is giving non-living objects human qualities.
What is Personification?
What is the 'bad guy' or a 'villain' in literature called?
What is an Antagonist?
What is the most popular sour candy?
What is Sour Patch Kids?
In this type of dystopian control society is controlled through a tangle of red tape, relentless regulations, and incompetent government officials.
What is bureaucratic control?
What is a theme of a story?
What is The central idea, lesson, moral story in a text
This is a person, place, thing, idea, or quality.
What is a noun?
Add these to be more descriptive about the action in a sentence.
What are descriptive verbs?
This is Maryland's nickname.
What is the Old Line State?
Dystopian fiction typically criticizes,
What are current social issues?
_____ ______is the reason for or intent in writing. It may be to amuse, persuade, or inform the reader, or to satirize a condition.
What is an author's purpose?
This is a word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.
Example: gentle, helpful, small
What is an Adjective?
This is called interpreting the personality and traits of a character based on an author's writing
What is a Character Analysis?
This continent contains 54 separate countries.
What is Africa?
A dystopian protagonist
• often feels trapped and is struggling to escape.
•questions the existing social and political systems.
•believes or feels that something is terribly wrong with the society in which he or she lives.
• helps the audience recognize the negative aspects of the dystopian world through his or her perspective.