Children's Literature
For readers who can’t read words, these are included in kid’s books to help understanding and comprehension of the story.
What are illustrations/pictures/images?
This type of artistic mimicry celebrates rather than mocks the style or character of the work of one or more artists. This is the form that the MSM for Kids Project took.
What is a pastiche?
After her divorce from Chacko, Margaret marries this Newman. (Get it?!?)
Who is Joe?
This author of Things Fall Apart gave a famous lecture on Heart of Darkness.
Who is Chinua Achebe?
No longer necessary for most of us, this is the street address of Nueva’s Bay Meadows campus.
What is 131 E 28th Ave, San Mateo, CA 94403?
One of Jamie/Jasmin’s favorite children’s books is this one about a young bunny who names various objects around his room until he falls asleep. You might notice that the young mouse hides in different parts of the room!
What is Goodnight, Moon?
The first line of Emily Dickinson’s poem that starts “I dwell in Possibility” ends with this type of punctuation, which she is known to commonly use instead of commas and periods.
What is the em-dash?
This fiction prize presented annually by the Man Group in England was won in 1997 by Arundhati Roy for The God of Small Things.
What is the (Man) Booker Prize?
The subtitle of Rudyard Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden” references the United States and this Pacific island nation.
What are the Philippines?
Before Zoom made free accounts more powerful, this was how many minutes a Zoom meeting could run on a free account.
What is 40?
The illustrator of a recent book about coronavirus entitled, Coronavirus: A Book for Children, is better known for this book about a mouse who wanders into a forest and uses his wit to defend itself from predators by making up a scary creature. The creature, whose name is the title of the book, is later revealed to be real.
What is The Gruffalo?
The line, “wives watch flying fish file by,” written by Barbadian poem Kamau Brathwaite, is an example of this type of sound repetition.
What is consonance?
This paralyzed Untouchable is also Velutha’s older brother.
Who is Kuttapen?
The author of Efuru, which is widely recognized as the first book written by a Nigerian woman to be published.
Who is Flora Nwapa?
This naturalist, formerly a staple of the English 10 curriculum (before the Costa Rica trip was canceled), made many of his key observations during a five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The protagonist of this book is a young boy who leaves town and eventually winds up in the “Waiting Place.” This Dr. Seuss book was the basis of the model pastiche.
What is Oh, The Places You’ll Go!?
“I heard the mighty tree its death-chant chanting.” This device is used in many eco-poems to make it seem like non-human things are human.
What is anthropomorphism?
This ancient Indian dance/theater form is witnessed by the twins both as children and when Rahel has returned to Ayemenem as an adult.
What is Kathakali?
Joseph Conrad chose to write in English, his first language, rather than these first two of his languages.
What are Polish and French?
On this day, we may not have known it at the time, but we had our last in-person class.
What is Thursday, March 12th?
Linda Sue Park gave a TEDx talk on this book, based on a true story of Salva Dut, a survivor of the Sudanese civil war.
What is A Long Walk to Water?
This little-known but often-used literary device is what you call giving the characteristics of an object/animal to a person, the opposite of personification.
What is chremamorphism? (We will also accept “objectifying.”)
This real-life communist politician and first Chief Minister of Kerala state is idolized by Comrade K.N.M. Pillai.
Who is E.M.S. Namboodiripad?
This two-part, three-letters-per-part name of the protagonist from The Joys of Motherhood may owe something to Freud.
Who is Nnu Ego?
Long forgotten by many at this point, this was the room number of the classroom in which we met in the olden days of in-person learning.
What is 215/16?