Rhetorical Terms
What is a simile?
What is a comparison using like or as
What is the term for an action word?
Verb
What is the exciting event that begins Chapter Five?
What is a fair
What is the class status of the protagonist of the Midwife's Apprentice?
Peasant / Lower Class
Who bothers Alyce?
The mean boys
What is a metaphor?
What is a comparison using the verb "to be"
What is the term for a person place or thing?
Noun
What is the event which sets the plot forward in chapter five?
The midwife breaks her leg
What is a midwife? & what is an apprentice?
Someone who deliver babies / Someone who is learning a new skill
What time period does the story take place in? (Generally)
The Middle Ages
What are sensory details?
What are language that appeals to the five senses
What is in a simple sentence?
Noun & Verb
What is the important event that ends Chapter five?
Name change to Alyce
What is the project of these three weeks?
Writing an essay
How does the Midwife treat Alyce?
Badly!
What is personification?
Applying human like qualities to non-human things
What do you need to add to fix a comma splice?
Conjunction
What is the reaction of the townsfolk to Alyce's new name?
They do not respect it!
What are the two parts of an independent clause?
Subject & Predicate
What do names symbolize in the story?
What is the climax of a story?
What is the most exciting / tense part
What are the two parts of a complex sentence
Independent & Dependent Clause
What is the culminating event of Chapter Six?
Will uses Alyce's name (they become friends!)
What is the genre of the Midwife Apprentice?
Vignette
Who is kind to Alyce?
Will, & the Miller's Wife