A Thousand Splendid Suns
Essays
Antigone
M-A-D-I-S-O-N
Character Types
100
This is the author of ATSS.
Who is Khaled Hosseini?
100
This most important sentence in your essay should answer the essay question and tell the reader what the paper is about.
What is the thesis statement?
100
This is the author of "Antigone"?
Who is Sophocles?
100
As many of you discovered in your gender norm project, despite all the progress that women have made, the US is still a ____________ world?
What is a MAN'S?
100
Rasheed is this type of character because there is only one side of his personality.
What is a flat character?
200
The plot structure of ATSS is unique because it contains these two parallel parts - introductions to the characters.
What are expositions?
200
This is the first sentence of every body paragraph that tells the reader what the paragraph will be about.
What is a topic sentence?
200
This is how Antigone died.
What is she hanged herself?
200
When you go to the movies, you might get a large, medium or small one of these.
What is SODA?
200
Creon is this type of character because he seems to change at the end and recognize his errors.
What is dynamic?
300
Hosseini displays these five ways that women are abused in male dominated societies.
What are verbal, emotional, physical, sexual and economic abuses?
300
These words or phrases help the reader understand the connections between ideas in sentences or in paragraphs.
What are transitions?
300
"Antigone" is this kind of play because all of the heroes die at the end.
What is a tragedy?
300
This type of person does not have a permanent home, but rather travels from place to place in order to find the best natural resources to live off of.
What is a NOMAD?
300
Lailais this type of character because there are many sides to her personality.
What is a round character?
400
This is what Laila plans on naming her next daughter.
What is Mariam?
400
A conclusion should use symmetry to balance out the introduction by beginning with this.
What is a reinforcement of the thesis statement?
400
"Antigone" revealed to us the gender norm in this ancient society.
What is Ancient Greece?
400
.com, .org, .net, or .gov are all examples of these?
What are DOMAINS?
400
Antigone is this type of character because she never goes through a major change in her characterization.
What is a static character?
500
In this final part of the plot structure, Laila and her family return to Kabul to help rebuild their city.
What is the resolution?
500
All quotations must be followed by one of these that are usually put in parenthesis.
What is a citation?
500
This man was Antigone's father who blinded himself after finding out that he had married his own mother.
Who was Oedipus?
500
This king in mythology was granted the gift of the golden touch in which everything he touched turned to gold.
Who was King MIDAS?
500
Mariam is this kind of character because when she meets Laila, she goes through a major change and the reader begins to see new sides to her personality.
What is a round - dynamic character?