The Shining Mountain
Analytical terms
Father and Son
Clara's Day
American Beauty
100
Pangma-La's father's profession.
What is a mountaineer?
100
The fictional character or voice that tells the story
What is the narrator?
100
The hobby the father and son used to share.
What is fishing?
100
The person, whose office Clara visits after her stunt during morning assembly.
Who is the Head?
100
Name of the main character, who quits his job.
Who is Lester (Burnham)?
200
Pangma-La's nationality.
What is Scottish?
200
When an "I" tells the story it's is told by this kind of narrator
What is a 1st person narrator?
200
The character who says "He is an old woman"
Who is the son?
200
The English word for "snerpe", which Clara's mother uses to decribe her daughter.
What is "prude"?
200
The Danish translation of the expression "to keep up appearances" (figurative meaning)
What is "holde/opretholde en facade"?
300
Another word for a female god
What is a goddess?
300
When the narrator jumps to a point in time that lies before the action.
What is a flashback?
300
The object the son hides under his pillow.
What is a hand-gun?
300
Clara's mother's profession.
What is a dentist's receptionist?
300
The person who these adjectives describe: materialistic, uptight, perfectionist.
What is Carolyn (Burnham)?
400
The last thing Pangma-La gives to the Sherpa woman.
What is her (heavy) heart?
400
The term used to describe the central ideas of a story. For example "relationship between parents and children", "nudity", "identity".
What is a theme?
400
The city the son has disappeared to at an earlier stage.
What is London?
400
The author of the short story
Who is Penelope Lively?
400
Two different objects used as symbols of beauty.
What is the rose and the plastic bag?
500
Type of story that often start with the words "Once upon a time"
What is a fairy tale?
500
A concrete thing in the story/film which at the same time represents an abstract idea or meaning.
What is a symbol?
500
The word class these words are part of: dish-cloth, smell, blood, threshold.
What are nouns?
500
Clara's reaction when Stan pats her arm
What is to freeze?
500
The person who says: "I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary."
Who is Angela?