Monkey Business
Literary Terms
Crazy Characters
Term 2.0
It's Not Easy Being Green
100

She is the protagonist in Monkey Beach.

Who is Lisamarie Hill?

100

This is the term for the combined events of a story; sometimes referred to as the storyline.

What is the plot?

100

This is the who or "someone" of the story.

What is a character?

100

This is a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland; also a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time.

What is nostalgia?

100
He is the star of the Muppets Treasure Island and is the on again off again romantic partner of Miss Piggy.

Who is Kermit the frog?

200

This character betrays Lisa, spiking her drink and raping her.

Who is Cheese?

200

These often present events that occurred before the story's opening; often an interjected scene.

What are flashbacks?

200

This type of character is one that acts from varied, often conflicting motives, impulses and desires, and seems to have some psychological complexity.

What is a round character?

200

This is the technique in poetry of running over from one line to the next without a stop, either in punctuation or breath.

What is enjambment?

200

This environmental activist organization gained notoriety trying to save the whales.

What is Greenpeace?

300

This is the Haisla term for sasquatch.

What is the B'gwus?

300

This term describes works that have fantastic or magical elements that are presented as normal, questions the nature of reality, and weaves extraordinary with the ordinary.

What is Magic Realism?

300

These types of characters remain the same throughout the film or the story, never changing.

What is a static character?

300

This drama term is the imaginary wall that separates the audience from the action taking place on the stage.

What is the fourth wall?

300
This northern island sits between the Atlantic and the Arctic oceans and actually belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark.

What is Greenland?

400

This plant can be both medicinal and dangerous.

What is oxasuli?

400

This is a situation or statement characterized by a significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens.

What is irony?

400

This recurrent symbol or motif in literature and mythology is a very typical example of a certain person or thing, for example, the great mother.

What is an archetype?

400

This is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

What is personification?

400

This American superhero appears in a series of DC Comics and fights evil with a power ring. 

Who is Green Lantern?

500

Lisamarie bumps into this character, purported to be the village witch.

Who is Screwy Ruby?

500

This type of novel features growing up, shows the development of a character, rebellion, and expresses individuality.

What is a coming of age novel or a bildungsroman?

500

This is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified idea of a particular type of person or thing, for example, the jock.

What is a stereotype?

500

This describes any literary convention that describes the simplicity, charm, and serenity attributed to country life.

What is the pastoral?

500

This Canadian political party is working to build a more prosperous and sustainable future for all Canadians.

What is the Green Party?