Short Stories
The protagonist in A Summer's Reading.
Who is George (Stoyonovich)?
MLA stands for...
What is the Modern Language Association?
A grounding tool for Christopher
What is groaning?
On Hitler's Birthday ____ is burned in a bonfire.
What is enemy propaganda?
A literary technique in which the author makes something fully known to the reader, whereas the characters are unaware.
What is dramatic irony?
The scar given to Dante from Shay symbolizes...
What is her love for Dante despite her absence?
In-text citation is also known as...
Parenthetical Citation.
The reason for Christopher's dad's killing of Wellington.
What is jealousy? Christopher's father kills Wellington because he feels that Mrs. Shears began to value the dog more than he and Christopher.
Papa got Liesel a Christmas present: two books. How did he acquire them?
By trading his cigarettes.
A character in a story whose sole purpose is to reflect or accentuate another character.
What is a foil character?
The POV in which "Pancakes" is written.
What is the 1st person POV?
Size margins used in MLA.
What is a 1 in. margin?
The kind of day it is when Christopher sees four yellow cars in a row.
What is a "Black Day"?
Cares for Liesel after her family dies.
Who is Ilsa Hermann (mayor's wife)?
Given your knowledge of the Third Person Omniscient POV, infer what the Latin prefix omni- means.
What is all?
The antagonist in a Short, Happy Life.
Who is Margot Macomber?
Every MLA paper will have a running header, which will include...
Your last name and page number.
The thing that is special about Christopher's chapters.
What are prime numbers?
Liesel gives this to Rudy after he dies.
What is a kiss?
A symbolic image or idea that appears frequently in a story.
What is a motif?
In the "Scarlet Ibis," Doodle is given his name by his brother because...
His brother thinks that, due to his disability, his crawling backwards imitates that of a doodlebug.
The nine elements of MLA citation.
1. Author
2. Title of Source
3. Title of Container
4. Contributor
5. Version
6. Number
7. Publisher
8. Publication date
9. Location
Christopher proves that intuition can be incorrect using the _______ as an example.
What is the Monty Hall problem?
At the end of the story, Max and Liesel see each other here.
What is the tailor shop?
The feeling evoked by setting/characters.
What is mood?