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Key Terms
Once More to the Lake
Salvation
Stranger in the Village
Once Upon a Quinceañera
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This is the term for the main idea or major claim in an essay
What is thesis (or thesis statement)?
100
Toward the end of the essay, this breaks out over the lake.
What is a thunderstorm?
100
Young Langston waits so long before getting up to be saved because he is waiting to see this person.
Who is Jesus?
100
According to Baldwin, he is not a stranger in this place.
What is America?
100
Alvarez injects herself into the story, telling it from her own point of view, which is this kind of narration.
What is first-person?
200
This is a term for the writer's attitude toward his or her subject or material
What is tone?
200
In the final sentence, the narrator feels this.
What is the chill of death?
200
This person "gets up to be saved" when he tells Langston that he is tired of sitting on the mourner's bench.
Who is Westley?
200
Baldwin's complex thesis is condensed in this place in the essay.
What is at the end?
200
MULTIPLE CHOICE! Which of the following aspects of quinceañeras does Alvarez write about? A. the planning of the quinceañera B. the preparation for the quinceañera C. the execution of the quinceañera D. the aftermath of quinceañeras E. all of the above
What is E. All of the above?
300
This term refers to the "shades of meaning" that a word might have because of various emotional associations it calls up for writers and readers alike
What is connotation?
300
In the present time of the essay, the narrator is accompanied by this person/these people.
Who is his son?
300
This person/these people have told young Langston about what he will see and hear and feel when he is saved
Who are his Auntie Reed and a great many old people?
300
MULTIPLE CHOICE! Which of the following is NOT an observation Baldwin makes of the tiny Swiss village? A. No black man had ever set foot in the village B. There is no movie house, no bank, no library, and no theater C. There are about 600 people living there, all Catholic D. Winters are mild with little snow and ice
What is D? Winters are mild with little snow and ice.
300
"Skeptica" describes Alvarez's attitude toward this thing.
What are quinceañeras?
400
This term refers to the "dictionary" definition of a word—its exact meaning.
What is denotation?
400
This is the "creepy sensation" White experiences at the lake.
What is the sense that he is both his father and his son?
400
MULTIPLE CHOICE! At the end of the essay, which one of the following reasons does Hughes NOT give to explain why he was crying? A. He was afraid that God would punish him for lying. B. He couldn't bear to tell Auntie Reed that he had lied in church. C. He didn't want to tell his aunt that he had deceived everybody in the church. D. He couldn't tell his aunt that he didn't believe that there was a Jesus anymore
What is A? A. He was afraid that God would punish him for lying.
400
Baldwin’s repetition of “there is” and “there are” constructions in paragraph 2 as well as his linking of prepositional phrases beginning with “despite” in paragraph 8 are examples of this rhetorical device.
What is parallelism (parallel structure)?
400
Alvarez relies more on this than argument in this essay.
What is narrative?
500
This term means any series of components that can be detected as a pattern,
What is motif?
500
MULTIPLE CHOICE! Which of the following changes is NOT mentioned in the essay? A. outboard motors instead of one-cylinder inboard motors B. a two-track instead of a three-track road to the farmhouse C. The waitresses are still fifteen but had washed their hair. D. more Coca-Cola in the store and less Moxie and sarsaparilla E. The lake has grown polluted, and few people are willing to go swimming in it.
What is E? The lake has grown polluted, and few people are willing to go swimming in it.
500
The first sentence of the essay is "I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen." After reading the essay, the sentence can be reinterpreted: Although the boy wants to be saved, in the end he only pretends to be saved "to save further trouble." This sentence, which means one thing when we were expecting it to mean something else, is an example of this literary term.
What is irony?
500
Shaped by history, each person becomes, in turn, a symbol of history.People cannot escape the influence of the past. Each person is a container of historical influences. All of these ideas are encapsulated in this statement from Baldwin.
What is "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them”?
500
Alvarez links her introductory and concluding paragraphs this way.
What are fairytale and fantasy?