Figurative Lingo
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
What is a SIMILE?
a short and interesting, sometimes funny, story; may include rich description and dialogue
What is an ANECDOTE?
When Mr. Wakatsuki came to America he was pursuing this?
What is The American Dream?
This EVENT forever changed the life of Mr. Wakatsuki?
Young Jeanne runs down the dock, shouting and asking: “What is a _______?”
What is when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor?
This character expresses in her dialogue how she hates the living conditions at Manzanar.
Who is Mrs. Wakatsuki?
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
groups or divisions of people, things, or ideas regarded as having shared characteristics
What are CATEGORIES?
When Mr. Wakatsuki burns the Japan flag after learning that the Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor. (8:17-9:42) Clip 1
When the Fort Lincoln Officer asks Mr. Wakatsuki who does he want to win the war? (13:30-13:56) Clip 2
These are examples of?
What is LOYALTY?
The EVENT occurs before Mrs. Wakatsuki breaks her fine China, rather than selling it for dirt cheap. Hint: Family Separation and The Psychological Effects of War
What is Mr. Wakatsuki is taken away from his home and family (for holding and interrogation in connection with the Japanese Navy’s bombing of Pearl Harbor) ?
This character makes homemade wine from rice and apricots. Wine is his escape from the INJUSTICES that being Japanese in America during WWII keeps throwing his way.
Who is Mr. Wakatsuki?
Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
What is IMAGERY?
used by authors to show similarities or differences between things or ideas as a way to convey more precise information
(also see allusion, analogy, metaphor, simile)
What is a COMPARISON?
When Mr. Wakatsuki is taken from his home and family for 1 year and then questioned by an Army Officer at Ft. Lincoln in North Dakota?
When he tells the Army Officer that he is prevented by law from becoming a citizen, prevented by law from owning land and he is now separated from his family without cause.
These are both examples of?
What is INJUSTICE?
Chapter 7
“What do you think of the American military? Would you object to your sons serving?”
“What do you think of the attack on Pearl Harbor?”
“Who do you want to win the war?”
What is the interview at Fort Lincoln?
This character describes her father as:
“He was a poser, a braggart, and a tyrant.”
“He had become a man without a country.”. Chapter 1, page 30
“But there were deeper, uglier reasons for his isolation.” Chapter 8, page 117
Who is Jeanne Wakatsuki?
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
What is METAPHOR?
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the actual words spoken by an individual to another individual; written with quotations marks
What is DIALOGUE?
What the Wakatsuki family experiences when they move from their comfortable home to a barrack located in the Mountains of Manzanar. Hint:”It cannot be helped” .... Metamorphosis
What is CHANGE?
Chapter 8
Mr. Wakatsuki is greeted by gossip and being called “Inu.”
What is Mr. Wakatsuki arrives at Manzanar?
This character intervened when his father was having a psychological episode and yelling at his mother threatening to kill and hit her.
Who is Kiyo?
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is a HYPERBOLE?
reference to a (usually well-known) different text, person, or event to provide a connection, comparison, or additional information
What is an ALLUSION?
To move to another country
What is IMMIGRATION?
This event highlights what WAR, gossip, depression and INJUSTICE can do to a family.
Hint: This event is foreshadowed at the end of Chapter 7. (A metaphor for the war between Japan and America and how Mr. Wakatsuki feels)
What is when Mr. Wakatsuki fights with his wife and his son intervenes (punching him in the face).
This character is rude to Mr. Wakatsuki. He tells him: “I am the interrogator here Mr. Wakatsuki, not you.”
Who is the army officer (at Fort Lincoln in North Dakota)?