Valentine's Puns
A homophone is when two or more words sound the same BUT do this differently
What is spelling?
find the adjective: "We'd arrived at St. Lucy's that morning, part of a pack fifteen-strong."
What is fifteen?
A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought
What is a cliche?
The author of "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"
Who is Karen Russell?
A concept that stresses the ordinary, common, or ever-day phenomena; one half of the concept we see in stories like "Ballad of the Harp Weaver" and "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"
What is realism?
How a bee asks his Valentine out on February 14th
What is bee mine?
What is tiny?
the feeling of sorrow and compassion caused by the suffering and misfortunes of others
What is pity?
The condition that skips every generation among the girls' families
The magical tool used in "The Ballad of the Harp Weaver" makes this
The kind of "flowers" vegetarians ask for on Valentine's Day
What is cauliflower?
find the two adjectives: "The nuns, they said, would make us naturalized citizens of human society."
What is naturalized and human?
What is initial?
How the girls walk in the beginning of the story
What is on all fours?
Who are Toni Morrison, Franz Kafka, Isabel Allende, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nikolai Gogol, and Haruki Murakami?
The party where burgers take their dates on Valentine's Day
What is to the Meat Ball?
find the two adjectives: "'Stage 1,' Sister Maria sighed, taking careful aim with her tranquilizer dart."
What is careful and tranquilizer?
an experience a person may have, often leading to a feeling of being lost or anxious, when one moves to a place which is different from one's own
What is culture shock?
In the story, who decides the "human" names for the girls
Who are the nuns?
Magic cannot be explained by this idea or "law" that are discovered, for example, through scientific methods, such as experimentation and observation.
How Croc-wearers say they love eachother; "you violently shake my universe", in other words
find the three adjectives: "...Jeanette would surprise everyone by laughing along with them, a harsh, inhuman, barking sound."
What is harsh, inhuman, and barking?
a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme
What is an epigraph?
What the girls eat at the school, described as "boiled"
What are tomatoes?
The three possible CHANGES we'll see in stories that use magical Realism.
What is a change in time, space, or identity?