Literary Terms Pt.1
Theme
It focuses on the deeper meaning or message that the reader is meant to consider.
Who is Cherie Dimaline
The Indigenous was of passing along knowledge/lessons throughout generations
Storytelling
"The trees danced in the wind"
What is Personification
What is Plot?
Sequence of events that make up a story
A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."
In The Marrow Thieves, what do Mitch and Frenchie find while scavenging at the beginning of the book?
What is a bag of Doritos
Residential schools
Hints or clues about what happen later
What is foreshadowing
Type of conflict:
Jessie took her sister's coat without asking
Person vs. Person
Metaphor
A comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as."
In The Marrow Thieves, what direction is Frenchie supposed to head?
What is the North
3 main categories of Indigenous people in Canada
First Nations, Inuit, Metis
symbols
an object, a person, a situation, or an action that has a literal meaning in a story but suggests or represents other meanings.
"He ran as fast as a cheetah"
Simile
Personification
Giving human qualities to inanimate objects
In The Marrow Thieves, when the people started to get sad, what happened to their sleep?
What is they stopped dreaming
The Indigenous belief that everything in the world has value and is related to each other
Interconnectedness
The main problem in the story
Conflict
Where dreams are stored, in The Marrow Thieves
In bone marrow
Imagery
The use of vivid and descriptive language to create sensory experiences for the reader.
In The Marrow Thieves, how many children are part of Miig and Minerva's group?
What is Seven
What was the setting in The Marrow Thieves?
Canada
The only type of internal conflict
Person vs. Self
This symbol in The Marrow Thieves represents the natural world and the idea of interconnectedness
The Moose