The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas
What is imagery?
100
The angry abusive drunk.
Who is Ellen's father?
100
Ina story, this is something that happens that is incongruous with what might be expected to happen, especially when this seems absurd or laughable.
What is irony?
100
A bird resembling an eagle that lived for 500 years and then burned itself, then rises from it's ashes
What is a Phoenix?
100
The basketball team that won the NBA playoffs in 2008
Who are the Celtics?
200
A figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication
What is allusion?
200
Ellen's best friend
Who is Starletta?
200
A literary or cinematic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative.
What is flashback?
200
Known as the First Lady of Southern Literature
Who is Eudora Welty?
200
The capital of Oregon
What is Salem?
300
The specific form of a language used by a speech community
What is dialect?
300
The disorder that the author of Ellen Foster had while writing this novel
What is bi-polar?
300
A technique used by authors to provide clues for the reader to be able to predict what might occur later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
300
An author that produced over fifty volumes of stories, novels, and political essays.
Who is Jack London?
300
The 2nd president of the United States
Who is John Adams?
400
the verbal noun identical in form with any participle, simple or compound, that contains the termination -ing
What is a gerund?
400
This a trait which means that you can take care of yourself. Ellen has to develop this trait after her mother dies.
What is self-reliance?
400
The beliefs, customs, practices, and social behavior of a particular nation or people used in stories to help set the stage for the reader.
What is culture?
400
Land in northern Canada.
What is the Yukon territory?
400
The superintendent of Por Vida Academy
Who is Joseph Randon?
500
The organization of words in sentences: the ordering of and relationship between the words and other structural elements.
What is syntax?
500
The author of Ellen Foster
Who is Kaye Gibbons?
500
The final part of a story or drama in which everything is made clear and no questions or surprises remain.
What is Denouement?
500
A common theme of To Build a Fire and A Worn Path.