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Literary Terms
A Long Walk to Water
Figurative Language
The Outsiders
Short Stories, Poetry & Excerpts
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The turning point or high point on a story?
What is the climax?
100
Makes Salva feel better about this journey to Ethiopia after they meet.
Who is Marial?
100
A figure of speech that uses the word "like" or "as" to compare two different things.
What is a simile?
100
The antagonist.
What role does Ponyboy play in "The Outsiders"?
100
A boy tries to steal a purse.
What is stolen in "Thank You Ma'am"?
200
The sequence of events that takes place in a story.
What is the plot?
200
The Atuot people believe that when one of their people dies, he or she comes back as a fierce lion.
Why are the Atuot called "the people of the lion"?
200
A comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics.
What is a metaphor?
200
Johnny dies and leaves Pony with the phrase, "Stay Gold".
What is the climax of this novel?
200
An abolitionist.
What does Fredrick Douglass become to help get rid of slavery?
300
When the narrator uses the word "I" in a story.
What is the first person?
300
An organization Salva created to help the Sudanses people.
What is "Water for South Sudan"?
300
The repetition of identical sounds at the beginning of words.
What is an alliteration?
300
Ponyboy decides whether or not he should fight in the rumble.
What is the internal conflict in this story?
300
It made him hate slave masters/ enslavement and he couldn't stop thinking about it.
How did learning to read affected Douglass' view on being enslaved?
400
When the narrator is looking at the characters from the outside.
What is the third person?
400
When the author (Linda Sue Park) puts Nya and Salva side by side throughout the whole story, but they never actually meet until the very end.
What is an example of juxtaposition in the story "A Long Walk to Water"?
400
"You're just throwing money down the drain"
What is an example of an idiom?
400
Two references: "Gone with the Wind": "Nothing Gold Can Stay".
What represents an allusion in the story "The Outsiders"?
400
A person that won't leave Douglass alone and makes his life miserable.
Who is Mr. Covey?
500
The methods in which a character is developed through thoughts, actions, and dialogue.
What is characterization?
500
Salva brings her tribe water.
Why do Nya and Salva meet in the end of "A Long Walk to Water"?
500
"The sea licked the grass at the edge of the shore."
What is an example of personification?
500
A type of conflict: Ponyboy gets jumped by the Socs.
What is an example of person vs. person -(conflict) in the story?
500
Causes the main character in "The Tell-Tale Heart" at the end of the story to go mad and makes him confess.
What is the beating of his own heart?