The Giver
This is the Ceremony where Jonas receives his Assignment.
What is the Ceremony of Twelve?
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
An apostrophe is used to show this or to form contractions.
What is possession?
The main character of a story.
What is the protagonist?
The Broadway musical about Alexander Hamilton.
What is Hamilton?
This character gives Jonas memories of the past.
Who is The Giver?
Giving human traits to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
The contraction for “they are.”
What is they’re?
The struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is conflict?
The document that begins with “We the People.”
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This is what “release” really means in the Community.
What is being killed?
An extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
A sentence with one independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
Clues that hint at future events.
What is foreshadowing?
The ship that brought the Pilgrims to America
What is the Mayflower?
Jonas’s first transmitted memory was this weather event.
What is snow (or sledding in the snow)?
“The classroom was a zoo.” This is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
These connect two independent clauses in a compound sentence.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
The turning point of a story.
What is the climax?
The war fought between the North and South regions of the United States.
What is the Civil War?
What kind of society is the community?
What is a Utopia?
When a word imitates a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
This comma rule separates items in a list.
What is the serial (Oxford) comma?
The perspective using “I” or “we.”
What is first-person point of view?
Who is the 18th president of America?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant