The Concepts
The Texts1
Grammar
The Texts2
Christmas
100
When two very different things are put together in e.g. a poem – e.g. The G7-students are sweet sounding trumpets in my ears
What is a metaphor?
100
What happened to the Indian woman's husband in Indian Camp.
What is suicide?
100
This kind of error: "The teachers was very tired because of the teacher Christmas dinner Friday"
What is a Q4-error? Kongruens
100
The name of the main character in "They Sold My Sister".
Who is Naliki?
100
The 1990 film with the boy character Kevin McCallister played by Macaulay Carson Culkin.
What is Home Alone?
200
The term used when a story starts in the middle of the plot.
What is In Medias Res?
200
The names of the main character and his uncle in Indian Camp.
Who are Nick and Uncle George?
200
The English grammatical name covering the following words: sheep, furniture, advice, homework.
What is uncountable nouns?
200
President Obama's hometown.
What is Chicago?
200
The place Santa Claus comes from according to someone from Britain, the U.S. or Canada.
What is the North Pole?
300
A figurative device where two very different things are compared directly through the use of ”like” or ”as”, e.g. ”Christian is like a beautiful rose”.
What is a simile?
300
What the father in ”Indian Camp” performed on the Indian woman.
What is a Caesarean section? (c-section)
300
The English word categorizing the following verbs: think, buy, become, grow, etc.
What is irregular verbs?
300
The name of the main character's sister in "They Sold My Sister".
Who is Nyamalo?
300
The country where it is traditional to leave mince pies and a bottle of Guiness to Santa.
What is Ireland?
400
The term used when consonant sound are repeated in a poem to create rhythm.
What is alliteration?
400
The name of Clara’s mother’s boyfriend in ”Clara’s Day”
Who is Stan?
400
The Danish name for the tense of the following sentence: Ulf has had a great time in G7
What is før nutid?
400
One of the names of Obama's daughters, mentioned in his Back to School speech.
What is Sasha (or Malia)?
400
The crooner behind the version of "White Christmas", which is the best-selling single of all time, with estimated sales in excess of 100 million copies worldwide.
Who is Bing Crosby?
500
The English word for a narrator that knows all about the characters’ feelings, actions, thoughts etc.
What is an omniscient narrator?
500
The theory which is linked to Hemingway's style of writing.
What is the iceberg theory?
500
The name for a verb phrase consisting of "to be" + past participle.
What is passive?
500
The English word for the exchange of gifts that happen when the sister is sold in the beginning of "They Sold My Sister".
What is dowry?
500
A 1993 American dark fantasy comedy musical film about a skeleton called Jack.
What is The Nightmare before Christmas?