Crime: true and fiction
In crime fiction, this term refers to a misleading clue meant to distract the audience.
What is a red herring?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the American South after slavery ended.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This term describes discrimination based on skin tone, often favoring lighter skin.
What is pigmentocracy/colorism?
This war is also known as “The Great War.”
What is World War I?
This animal can sleep for around 22 hours a day.
What is a koala?
What was Derf Backderf’s main intention with My Friend Dahmer?
To humanize Dahmer and understand him without excusing his crimes.
Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” uses shocking visuals and symbolism to criticize this issue in America.
gun culture or structural racism?
Edward Said’s concept describing the West’s stereotypical view of “the East” is called this.
What is Orientalism?
The film 1917 is famous for being edited to look like this type of continuous filming technique.
What is one continuous shot/one take?
This is the only mammal capable of true flight.
What is a bat?
In class discussions, we challenged stereotypes by discussing why people often assume this group of people are the main perpetrators of violence.
What are men?
“I Have a Dream” was delivered by this civil rights leader.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
English functioning as a common communication language between people with different native languages is called this.
What is lingua franca?
Jessie Pope’s “Who’s for the Game?” was written mainly to do this.
To encourage young men to enlist in the war.
This country consumes the most chocolate per person in the world.
What is Switzerland?
My Friend Dahmer is this type of text.
What is a graphic novel/memoir.
In The Hate U Give, Starr witnesses the police shooting of her childhood friend named this.
Who is Khalil?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warned about the danger of hearing only one story about a culture. What was her TED Talk called?
What is The Danger of a Single Story?
Wilfred Owen’s poem “Anthem for Doomed Youth” compares dying soldiers to these animals.
What are cattle?
The dot above the letters “i” and “j” actually has this official name.
What is a tittle?
In classic crime fiction, detectives often search for these three things: motive, suspects, and this third key element.
: What is evidence/clues?
Explain the difference between a new criticsm approach and a historical approach in literary analysis.
In How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Mohsin Hamid uses this unusual narrative perspective throughout most of the novel.
What is second-person narration (“you” narration)?
Explain how propaganda was used during World War I, using either posters or Four-Minute Men speeches as examples.
Propaganda was used to manipulate public opinion, encourage enlistment, raise money for the war, and maintain support for the government and military. Posters and speeches often used emotional appeals, patriotism, fear, and guilt.
In Ancient Rome, wealthy citizens used this as toothpaste.
What is powdered mouse brains