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Children's Literature
Short Story
Poetry
Memoir
Potpourri
100
Brothers who wrote dark fairy tales in the 1800s
What is Brothers Grimm
100
The setting of John Updike's "A&P"
What is grocery store north of Boston.
100
Difference between simile and metaphor
What is simile uses "like" or "as"... metaphor uses neither
100
The full title of the memoir from which we read the first chapter
What is The Glass Castle
100
State where Ms. MacGregor was born
What is Connecticut
200
Original author of the story "The Little Mermaid"
What is Hans Christian Andersen.
200
Author of "The Lottery"
What is Shirley Jackson
200
The pattern of rhyme in a poem (for example, AA, BB, CC)
What is rhyme scheme
200
The kind of childhood the memoirist of "The Glass Castle" had (3 words)
What is unconventional, bizarre, poor, etc.
200
State where Ms. MacGregor went to college
What is Iowa
300
Name one PURPOSE of children's literature.
What is to teach children to read, to teach life lessons, to explain difficult concepts, etc.
300
Full name of the Handicapper General
What is Diana Moon Glampers
300
Extreme exaggeration for dramatic effect
What is hyperbole
300
What happens to the main character in "Thanksgiving in Mongolia"
What is miscarriage
300
Number of short stories we read
What is 4
400
The name of the children's book illustrator who uses abstract shapes and colors.
What is Molly Bang
400
The setting of Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants"
What is a bar in a train station in Spain
400
"The moon has a face like the clock in the hall" contains an example of ________ AND ________
What is personification and simile
400
What game does the writer of "Thanksgiving in Mongolia" play with her father when she is a child? Why is that significant?
What is "Mummy and Explorer".
400
The most important thing to include in your memoir essay
What is DIALOGUE
500
The Greek storyteller who wrote fables such as "The Tortoise and the Hare"
What is Aesop
500
The name of the technique Hemingway uses in"Hills Like White Elephants" to SHOW, not tell.
What is iceberg technique
500
The full name of Ms. MacGregor's "Dead or Alive" poet
What is Ellen Bryant Voigt
500
The capital of Mongolia, where the author stays for a few days
What is Ulanbaatar
500
Name of the huge monetary award that Ellen Bryant Voigt won
What is MacArthur "Genius" Grant