Short Stories
When the children are gathering stones at the beginning of "The Lottery".
What is foreshadowing?
When an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
What is a symbol?
The main suspect in John Wright's murder.
Who is Minnie Wright?
Who is Sumdi?
The creature that Trevor compares himself to.
What is a chameleon?
In "The Lunch Date" the audience notices her uneaten salad and shopping bags at the other booth before she does.
What is dramatic irony?
The truth or central idea about life that the story reveals or the moral lesson or message.
What is theme?
The word for "an insignificant thing"
What is a trifle?
The imagined "city of no sadness".
What is Kahunsha?
Trevor's stepfather who can be unpredictable and abusive.
Who is Able?
The title of "The Chaser" is one.
What is a pun?
When a text gives hints or clues about what will happen.
What is foreshadowing?
These characters find the evidence that proves the motive for John Wright's murder.
Who are Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters?
The term to describe characters who are compared such as Anand Bhai and Mrs. Sadiq in The Song of Kahunsha.
What is a character foil?
What is witchcraft/a demon?
What is flashback?
A literary term used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the attack.
What is satire?
Which theme does this quotation support-"well women are used to worrying over trifles”?
What is Gender roles and differences
The only connection Chamdi had to his father and a symbol of his innocent view of the world.
What is the white cloth?
The term to describe the figurative language used in this sentence: "Hustling is to work what surfing the Internet is to reading"
What is an analogy?
What is an allusion?
This term means placing two things side by side so as to highlight their differences.
What is juxtaposition?
The cracked preserve jars, broken birdcage, and poor sewing are examples of this literary element.
What are symbols?
This term is used to describe this type of novel in the way it follows Chamdi's maturity from an innocent child to a more informed young person.
What is a bildungsroman?
The power of language is a major one in Born a Crime.
What is a theme?