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Grab Bag
Literature
JHIL Plot
JHIL Characters
JHIL Themes, Structure, etc.
100
It should come first in a body paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
100
We describe this term as a reference to another text, event, or idea, which adds meaning that would otherwise be absent
What is an allusion?
100
This natural disaster destroys Captain Wallace's home on Rass.
What is a hurricane?
100
Opts to drink milk instead of tea.
Who is Call?
100
These are the two themes we decided on for the novel.
What are sibling rivalry and identity?
200
These are two of the three levels of the "three-story house" of questioning.
What are gathering, processing, and/or applying?
200
A comparison using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
200
Event -- Caroline's suggestion; Wheeze's disgust; wedding bells!
What is Hiram's and Auntie Braxton's wedding?
200
Helps Caroline continue her music education postmortem.
Who is Auntie Braxton?
200
The name of Louise's father's boat, and the name of the play from which it comes.
What is Portia and The Merchant of Venice?
300
The title of the John Green book The Fault in Our Stars comes from this play.
What is Julius Caesar?
300
It claims equivalence between two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
300
Louise uses this as an incubator.
What is a pot full of towels and cloths inside of a warm oven?
300
The name of Wheeze's father and two other characters in the last two chapters
What is/Who is Truitt?
300
One of a few events that help push Wheeze to leave the island and differentiate herself from her sister.
What is her mother saying she misses her? What is the Captain's encouragement? etc.
400
From the imagination and memory exercise on Wednesday, the first image was of these two Egyptian mythical figures.
Who are Isis and Osiris?
400
This literary technique makes an object or entity seem human or humanlike
What is personification?
400
The punchline of Wheeze's joke about the pearly gates.
What is "God thinks he's Franklin Delano Roosevelt"?
400
Two of the three people in Wheeze's life who joined the military
Who are Mr. Rice, Call, and/or Truitt Bradshaw?
400
Describe two specific and separate parallels between the beginning and the end of the novel that help it come "full circle"?
(examples) What is the birth of the twins? What is the name of Sara Louise's baby? etc.
500
After his trial, Socrates was made to drink Conium maculatum popularly known as this 'h' word.
What is hemlock?
500
Mr. Peneton wrote his Master's thesis on this Anglo-Irish poet.
Who is William Butler Yeats?
500
The Captain goes to Crisfield for the same amount of time the storm lasts - this many days.
What is 3?
500
Sara Louise marries this man (first and last name, please!).
Who is Joseph Wojtkiewicz?
500
Name the character: "I hate the water."
Who is Grandma/Louise/Grandma Louise?