Background/Context
This empire ruled India from the 1700s to 1947, establishing English-language schools like the one Santha and Premila attend in "By Any Other Name."
What is the British Empire?
In "By Any Other Name," the sisters are renamed this to sound English.
What are Cynthia and Pamela?
This describes a woman in charge of a school.
What is a headmistress?
Her smile is like a ray of sunshine is this example of figurative language.
What is a simile?
This US President authorized the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
What is Thomas Jefferson?
This Haitian dictatorship, led by Papa Doc and Baby Doc from 1957 to 1986, created a climate of fear and oppression central to the backstory of "Book of the Dead."
What is the Duvalier regime?
In Texas v. Johnson, the majority opinion protects flag burning because the government can't ban an idea just because society finds it this.
What is offensive?
The British school uses this process to make Indian students absorb British culture and customs.
What is assimilation?
The ground groaned as Godzilla marched through New York City is this example of figurative language.
What is personification?
In a triangle, if one angle measures 45° and another measures 72°, this is the measure of the third angle.
What is 63 degrees?
This Supreme Court decision protected the freedom of speech despite the American flag being destroyed at a protest in 1989.
What is Texas v. Johnson?
In "What, of This Goldfish," Sergei uses his last wish for this, choosing isolation over connection.
What is undoing the murder?
This term means to be objective, with no emotions involved.
What is detached?
"Life is a journey" is this example of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
Using Newton's Second Law, if an object has a mass of 5 kg and accelerates at 4 m/s², this is the net force acting on it (in Newtons).
What is 20?
In "What, of this Goldfish, Would You Wish?," Sergei is a Russian immigrant in this country.
What is Israel?
Annie creates this object, reflecting her father's experiences in Haiti.
What is a sculpture?
In "Book of the Dead," Annie might do this, meaning to consider carefully, as she reflects on her father’s revealed past and its impact on their relationship
What is contemplate?
In the phrase "Sally’s slippery snakes slithered silently," this literary device is used.
What is an alliteration?
West of the Mississippi River, this U.S. state is home to the Grand Canyon, one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, and has Phoenix as its capital.
What is Arizona?
During the Duvalier regime in "Book of the Dead," many Haitians, like Annie’s father, fled to this U.S. city, forming a large diaspora community.
What is New York?
In "Without Title", the father moves to the city to work in the stockyards. He continues to uphold his Cherokee traditions, despite being told repeatedly not to do so. This difference between the two cultures is this.
What is unbridgeable?
The British school’s narrow-minded attitude in "By Any Other Name," ignoring Indian culture in favor of British traditions, can be described as this, meaning isolated or provincial.
What is insular?
The cat is a real Einstein.
What is an allusion?
This biological process, occurring in plant chloroplasts, uses sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?