Writer/Writing
The writer of a play is known as this.
What is a playwright?
The number of African slaves transported to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
What is 10-12 million slaves?
The relationship between Boy and Captain.
What is father and son?
Girl and Woman are on the ship because they are these.
What are slaves?
Anansi is this type of animal.
What is a spider?
The person who wrote Anansi.
Who is Alistair Campbell?
These were given by Europeans in exchange for captive Africans.
What are weapons/ammo?
The name of the ship.
What is The Good Ship Hope?
The person Girl cries out for in the hold.
Who is her mother?
Anansi uses this in an attempt to stay on Tiger's good side.
What is flattery?
A conversation between two or more characters is called this.
What is dialogue?
The journey from Africa to the Americas was called this.
What is the Middle Passage?
Captain says that this is for lasses (girls).
What is a diary?
Woman does this to to help Girl.
What is tell stories?
Anansi is most proud of this quality of his.
What is cleverness?
This writer's technique hints at what is to come.
What is foreshadowing?
Receiving, preserving and transferring cultural material orally from one generation to the next is known as this.
What is oral tradition?
The literary device that comes out of the ship's name.
What is irony?
The name given to the spider in the hold and in Woman's stories.
What is Anansi?
The task given to Anansi by Tiger in order to have the stories named after him (Anansi).
What is bring Snake tied to a pole?
The birthplace of the writer of Anansi.
What is the Cook Islands?
A feature of folktale where animals are literally given human characteristics in emotion, behaviour and communication.
The reason why the captain wants Boy to refer to him as 'Captain'.
What is to be viewed differently/with more respect/with less moral obligation than his role as father?
The way in which the stories are helpful to Girl.
What is helps her to bide time/cope through the difficulties of slavery/inspire bravery and wit like the main character, etc.?
What is the Longest Creature of the Year Committee?