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Plot, Setting, Theme, Tone, Conflict
"Odyssey"
Vocab 4 and 5
"Night"
"Night"
100
An author might describe the landscape, introduce characters, and "set the stage" so to speak in this segment of a story.
What is exposition?
100
These are things like heroes, villains, evil geniuses, or places like spooky mansions and a suburban neighborhood that appears, on the surface, to be perfect.
What are archetypes?
100
If a phone cord is all curled up around itself, you would have to do this to straighten it back out. This can be hard to do, which makes you want to destroy the phone, even though it has no life, which is what this word means. a. arduous and brazen b. disentangle and inanimate c. disentangle and reprieve d. rectify and prattle
What is disentangle? What is inanimate?
100
This is when Hitler came to power.
What is 1933?
100
This is the general category of writings that "Night" falls into, and this is the specific type.
What are autobiographies? What is a memoir?
200
Words like "solemn" or "cheery" or "peaceful" are some of the words that could describe this aspect of literature.
What is tone?
200
This character is meant to stand in stark contrast to another character. This permits a character's personalities to seem even more pronounced and defined.
What is a character foil?
200
On Friday afternoon, there will be a mass ___ of kids joyous for a long break. There will be no need for teachers to ___ in the kids leaving school a. exodus and facilitate b. intrepid and abscond c. anarchy and auspiscious d. rebut and opaque
What is exodus? What is facilitate?
200
This refers to a huge and terrible event that occurred in 1938.
What is Kristallnacht? (Night of the Broken Glass)
200
Elie Wiesel first arrives at this camp.
What is Auschwitz-Birkenau?
300
These messages address universal ideas.
What is theme?
300
This refers to challenges, personal growth that results in a dynamic character, and, usually, self-discovery.
What is a hero's quest?
300
If you had a rough first semester, you may ___ the situation by working harder second semester. Thankfully, we have a ___ between the first and second semester. a. abscond and fated b. incinerate and latent c. disentangle and pliant d. rectify and reprieve
What is rectify? What is reprieve?
300
Jews were sent to these while they waited for this.
What ghettos and transports?
300
These men police the public streets while these men police the camps.
What are the Gestapo and what are the SS?
400
These are the two categories of conflict AND these are the four types of conflict.
What is internal and external, and what are: man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. self, and man vs. nature?
400
This is Odysseus' true character flaw (harmatia).
What is hubris? (excessive pride)
400
Some work may seem to be ___, but it actually is important. Not every assignment is ___ in importance, but each one does have a point. a. access and precipice b. arbitrary and paramount c. servitude and militant d. incorrigible and biased
What is arbitrary? What is paramount?
400
This term refers to attempting to systematically exterminate an entire race.
What is genocide?
400
This what Wiesel is given for sustenance in the camps.
What is black coffee in the morning, soup at midday, and bread with something (like margarine) in the evening?
500
These are the two differences between citing narrative in MLA and poetry in MLA.
What are backslashes and line numbers? EX: Frost writes that "Two roads diverged in a wood, / and I - I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference" (18-20).
500
These stories comprise histories of culture and rituals and explain natural phenomenon.
What is mythology?
500
This semester may have, at some points, been ___, but it gets easier second semester since you know now how high school operates for freshmen. When you return, you will have an ___ beginning since everyone starts off anew. a. daunt and larceny b. rebut and succumb c. hoodwink and stagnant d. arduous and auspicious
What is arduous? What is auspicious?
500
This event led to our involvement in WWII and resulted in the creation of these places for this group of people.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor? What are internment camps for Japanese-Americans?
500
This is why Wiesel is telling his story.
What is "to bear witness for the dead and the living"(Wiesel XV) so that, for young people, his past does not become their future (Wiesel XV)?