Language
This is a word that is used (in a condescenting way) to describe many of the people living in the Ozarks.
What is a 'hillbilly'?
These are words (nouns) we may use to describe people who came to the west (name at last two)
What are 'pioneers, settlers, immigrants, frontier people, explorers'...
This is what we do when we analyze a text focusing on the protagonist (we find places in text that describe the protagonist, and we come up with adjectives to describe them, and we look at their motives and relations)
What is 'characterization'?
This is said about the US: "America is the land of..."
(bonus +400 points with correct answer)
What is "opportunity"?
eller "the free/freedom"?
This is the kind of era that has begun in the US, according to Donald Trump in his inauguration speech
What is 'The Golden age'?
This is the rhetorical device used in Donald Trump's inauguration speech here:
"We will be a rich nation again, and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it."
What is a metaphor?
These are key aspects of 'the frontier experience' (give at least four aspects)
What are settlement and exploration, self-suffiency and autonomy, opportunity and hardship, self-determination, wilderness and adaptation.....
These are three ways to 'appeal' to an audience when e.g. giving a speech (modes of appeal)
What are 'ethos, logos, and pathos'?
This is/was the motivation to immigrate to the US, that promises that you may achieve all that you want as long as you work hard.
What is 'the American dream'?
This is the name of the new Vice President
(double points with correct answer)
Who is J.D. Vance?
The is the rhetorical device used in Donald Trump's inauguration speech here:
"We will not be conquered, we will not be intimidated, we will not be broken, and we will not fail."
What is repetetion? (anaphora)
This law stated that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of government land.
(Double point if you can name the year the law was passed)
What is The Homestead Act?
(1862)
This word refers to the time, place, and environment in which a story occurs.
What is the setting?
This is a 'value' that is stressed in The Declaration of independence and further emphasized in the first 10 amendments.
what is 'to have rights'?
This is the song title of a song where "beer flows through the faucets all night long" and "There's treasure for the taking, for any hard working man"
(bonus: double points with naming the artist)
What is 'American Land'?
(Bruce Springsteen)
This is the type of rhetorical device that Daniel Woodrell used in his description of houses in his novel Winter's Bone:
"The house crouched at the end of the withered path, its wooden bones groaning in the wind"
What is 'personification'?
This is what Americans thought they had the moral obligation to bring to the 'savage' and to the New world in the West.
what is 'civilization'?
These are models we use to analyze the plot of a story (e.g. the film Winter's Bone). One of them includes 'call to adventure' the other 'point of no return'
(double points with two correct answers)
What is The Hero's Journey? and/or The Hollywood model
This is the 'release date' for The Declaration of Independence (date and year)
What is 'July 4th, 1776'?
This is the concept that you can move away from the social class of your parents in the US
What is 'social mobility'?
This is the rhetorical devices used in the article about the broken American dream, where they use certain phrasing, that will lead your mind to think about a specific thing:
"The American Dream should reflect a reality where every child has the opportunity to pursue their passion"
(double points with correct answer)
What is an allusion?
(they allude to the declaration of Independence with the use of pursue - "that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”)
This is the belief that the United States is either distinctive, unique, or exemplary compared to other nations. (a feeling that comes from the frontier experience)
What is 'American exceptionalism'?
These are language/linguistic features/techniques that we look for when we analyze texts
What are 'rhetorical devices'? (or literary devices)
These kind of rights do American citizens have according to the Declaration of Independence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain __________ Rights..."
What are "unalienable" rights?
This is the name of the man who coined the term The American Dream in 1931.
(first, middle or last name will be accepted)
Who was James Truslow Adams?