CTBC plot & characters
The author of Cry, the Beloved Country
Who is Alan Paton?
Lyrical language is a type of syntax designed to evoke a sense of _________ into the narrative.
What is poetry?
"I wish I could click my heels together and go home" is an allusion to this.
What is the Wizard of Oz?
The author of Born a Crime
Who is Trevor Noah?
The author of "Life is Sweet at Kumansenu."
Who is Abioseh Nicol?
Cry, the Beloved Country, is set in this country.
What is South Africa?
The repeated use of first letters and sounds
What is alliteration?
The definition of allusion.
What is an indirect reference to another work (generally common knowledge)?
The name of the TED talk we watched in class
What is "The Danger of a Single Story"?
The repeated use of specific words and phrases throughout a text.
What is repetition?
Stephan Kumalo and James Jarvis work together to rebuild this village.
What is Ndotsheni?
Repetition in literature is mainly used for this.
What is emphasis?
The definition of a biblical allusion.
What is an indirect reference to a story, theme, literary technique, or character from the Bible?
The story “Life is Sweet at Kumansenu” is about a widow who is visited by this.
What is her son's ghost?
How is Theophilus Msimangu’s name a biblical allusion?
- Name meaning
- Bonus points (50 pts): what book of the Bible is it famously used in?
- "Theophilus" means "friend of God"
Bonus (50 pts): It is used at the beginning of the book of Acts
John Kumalo repeats "I do not say we are________" in his speech.
What is "free"?
This characteristic of lyrical language creates mental images of the setting/ person.
What is sensorial description?
Explain how this statement from CTBC makes a biblical allusion:
"Stand unshod upon it, for the ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed."
- It promises a restoration of the land, which God promises in the Bible many times.
Childhood peers of Born a Crime’s author used to view the author as this.
white
How is James Jarvis' name/actions a biblical allusion? - Name
- Choice to help his land by building the church
The biblical disciple James started out an unbeliever, but he became a Christian and grew Christ's church by evangelizing. In the same way, James Jarvis originally did not believe in his son's cause, but believed at the end and helped Kumalo build a new physical church in Ndotsheni.
The author of CTBC wrote with this many (1,2, or 3) points of view throughout the novel.
What is all 3 types of points of view?
What characteristics of lyrical language are in these sentences?
"It is a hymn of thanksgiving, and man remembers God in it, and…gives thanks for the Everlasting Mercy. And it echoes in the bare red hills and over the bare red fields of the broken tribe. And it is sung in humility and gratitude, and the…simple people pour their lives into the song."
"bare red" x 2 = repetition
"people pour their lives into the song"- sensorial description
Explain how this CTBC quote is a biblical allusion
"But my companion, the old man who is tired, is the father of this young man, [Absalom], and has come from Natal to find him."
- References the Prodigal Son. Kumalo is a good father, pursuing his son. In this way, he is a God figure, as God seeks us even when we do not seek him.
- Absalom is a biblical name (biblical Absalom was also an outsider)
According to the speaker from the TED Talk “The Danger of a Single Story,” ___________________ are not wrong because they are untrue, but because they are incomplete.
A) Stories B) Stereotypes C) Books
B) Stereotypes
Sensorial description is mainly used to establish this in literature.
What is immersion, sense of place, sense of setting?