ELEMENTS
A direct comparison
What is a metaphor?
“The Earth on Turtle’s Back” is an example of this type of story.
What is an origin/creation myth?
This is how Victor’s father died.
What is a heart attack?
In order to win the woman’s affection, this is what the man had to do (from “Why the Mole Lives Underground”).
What is swallow the woman’s heart?
At the time of Columbus, ____ distinct languages existed in North America.
What is 350?
A comparison using like or as?
What is a simile?
This person had a dream that the Great Tree was uprooted.
Who is the chief’s wife?
This person offers to give Victor the rest of the money he needs to get to Phoenix.
Who is Thomas?
This is why the mole lives underground (from “Why the Mole Lives Underground”).
What is because magicians threatened to kill him for his special powers?
An important part of Native American literature is the ____ tradition, where stories are passed down from person to person.
What is oral?
The repeating of words or phrases
What is repetition?
This animal placed the Earth on Turtle’s back.
Who is the Muskrat?
This holiday is celebrated in both “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” and Smoke Signals.
What is the 4th of July (Independence Day)?
This is how old Pocahontas and John Smith were.
What is 10 and 27?
This time period marked the addition of Native American literature to literary canon.
What is the 1960s?
Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman
What is personification?
The woman from the sky had this in her hands when she fell.
What are seeds?
This is how Thomas’s parents died.
What is his mother died in childbirth and his dad died in war?
What is a slow learner?
Some Native Americans prefer this term over “Native American.”
What is “Indian”?
“Time is like a panther, crouched on the bough of a tree…” is an example of this type of literary element.
What is a simile?
This is how the universe is organized in “The Earth on Turtle’s Back.”
What is Skyland at the top, Water in the middle, and then Earth down below?
This is the favor that Thomas asks of Victor at the end of the story.
What is stop and listen to one of his stories?
This is an example of Wind-Wolf experiencing racism.
What is his friend calling him a “good Indian” or his friend’s mother refusing let Wind-Wolf play with her son?
In the poem by White Deer of Autumn, time is compared to a panther because…
What is you cannot control it, just like a panther cannot control its prey?