Unit I: Fiction
It is a story about a fourteen-year-old girl who dreams of having the honorary scholarship jacket .
What is The Scholarship Jacket?
He is the author of “The Cay”.
Who is Theodore Taylor?
He is the first black president of South Africa.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
It is a humorous poem consisting of five lines.
What is limerick?
It is the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering.
What is euthanasia?
She is Victor’s crush.
Who is Teresa?
In The Giver, he is the four-year old boy drowned in the river.
Who is Caleb?
It is a text feature that explains what is shown in a picture.
What's a caption?
It is a figurative language that implies a distance between what is said and what is meant.
What is irony?
It is the main thematic concept of The Cay.
What is racial prejudice?
He is Zebra’s summer art class teacher.
Who is Mr. (John) Wilson?
It is where the story of The Cay initially takes place.
What is Curacao?
It is the story of a person’s life as told by someone else.
What's a biography?
He is the poet who wrote I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
Who is William Wordsworth?
It is a special kind of autobiography that involves a public portion of the author’s life.
What is a memoir?
According to Freytag's plot diagram, this part of a plot is where the remaining secrets, questions or mysteries after the resolution are solved by the characters or explained by the author.
What is a denouement?
It is the system that Jonas’s community follows
What is Sameness?
It was a system of racial segregation in South Africa.
What is apartheid?
It is a literary device that refers to the practice of running lines of poetry from one to the next without using any kind of punctuation to indicate a stop (periods, commas, etc.).
What's an enjambment?
It is a rhetorical trope that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated.
What is metonymy?
It is an element of fiction that shows a struggle between a character and an outside force such as society, nature, or another character.
What is an external conflict?
This chapter in The Cay is where Timothy dies.
What is chapter 15?
It is a text feature found at the back part of the book that has an alphabetical listing of the key names, terms, events, and topics with page numbers.
What is an index?
It is a rhythmic foot pattern that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.
What is anapest (anapestic)?
It is a verse of four measures (four metrical feet).
What is tetrameter?