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Slaughterhouse Five
The Things They Carried
Poetic Terms
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Quote Me On This
100
Motif used throughout the novel after each mention of death
What is "So it goes"?
100
Three main themes found in They Things They Carried
What is memory, imagination, burdens, redemption, storytelling, imagination, possibilities, waste, and weight?
100
The repetition of the 's' sound
What is sibilance?
100
"War is hell, but that's not the half of it..."
What is The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien?
100
"...because this world is hurt / and cruel and nothing / that naive and loving / and unashamed / could possibly survive."
What is "A Fleeting Animal" by David Budbill?
200
Kurt Vonnegut's alternative name for Slaughterhouse Five
What is The Children's Crusade?
200
Finish this quote: "I was a coward......"
What is I went to the war?
200
assigning human attributes to objects
What is personification?
200
Unrhymed but has internal meter
What is blank verse poetry?
200
"When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose"
What is "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" by Randall Jarrell?
300
The three main settings in the novel
What is Dresden, Ilium, and Tralfamadore?
300
Events that occur before the story begins, sets the scene, and gives background information to the reader
What is antecedent action?
300
Second or enriched meaning given to a word
What is connote?
300
A poem which is addressed to or speaks to someone or something
What is apostrophe?
300
"If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood / Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,"
What is "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen?
400
A type of character who undergoes little or no inner change throughout a novel
What is a static character?
400
The objects hanging from Mary Anne Bell's necklace?
What were human tongues?
400
An image that represents something beyond its obvious meaning
What is symbol?
400
"The unexplained glory flies above them"
What is "War Is Kind" by Stephen Crane?
400
"One short sleep past, we wake eternally,"
What is "Death, Be Not Proud" by John Donne
500
The antagonist of Slaughterhouse Five
What is war?
500
The main simile that Linda says to Timmy in the chapter "The Lives of the Dead"
What is being dead is like being inside a book that nobody's reading?
500
When the whole is referred to by a part or vice versa
What is synedoche? Bonus: Pronounce it correctly! (not sign eh kinda doti choti)
500
"When there was peace, he was for peace; When there was war, he went"
What is "The Unknown Citizen" by W.H. Auden?
500
"Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds."
What is Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut?