Short Stories
Who wrote "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World"?
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What game do the mothers play in the Joy Luck Club?
Mahjong.
Where is Pi from, originally?
India
What is the term for a paragraph in poetry?
Stanza
Born a Crime will occasionally refer to The Tower of Babel. Name this literary device.
Allusion
Who wrote "Punishment"?
Tagore
At what game is Waverly a child prodigy?
Chess.
Who is Richard Parker?
The tiger
This form of poetry does not follow a fixed structure or traditional rules of meter or rhyme.
Free Verse
When Santiago talks to the wind, and the wind answers, this is an example of what literary device?
Personification
What do the village children find in the water?
A body.
What task takes Jing-Mei to China?
To meet her half-sisters.
Name the three religions Pi adheres to.
Hinduism, Islam, & Christianity
What term means "the rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry"?
Meter
Odysseus is considered the _______ of The Odyssey.
(Name the literary element).
Protagonist
What do the villagers name the body?
Esteban
In what year was Ying-Ying born?
(It's an animal)
Year of the Tiger
In what country does Pi land?
Mexico
This is a 14-line poem following a particular rhyme scheme and meter.
Sonnet
Provide an example of metaphor.
The comparison of unlike things: Toby knew he had a horse face.
Who is blamed, ultimately, for the murder in "Punishment"?
Chandara
Why did Suyuan leave her children?
Because she was exhausted/thought she would die.
(To save them)
Describe the island Pi lands on, prior to his rescue.
Carnivorous, fungal...there's, like, human teeth in a fruit. Not excellent.
What is the syllable pattern for haiku?
5-7-5
Provide an example of alliteration.
Repeated opening consonants: Carl craves caramel currants.