Literary Terms
The point of view where a narrator closely follows one single character, allowing the reader access to their thoughts, feelings, and actions.
What is third-person limited?
This is the country where "The Setting Sun and the Rolling World" takes place.
What is Zimbabwe?
The narrator of "Translating Grandfather's House" most likely received this assignment from his teacher.
What is drawing a relative's home?
The Greek god of lightning.
Who is Zeus?
This kind of poetry focuses mainly on evoking a specific emotion, often through song-like qualities.
What is a lyrical poetry?
This is where mama is located in "Hanging Fire."
What is her bedroom?
The narrator in "You are the Electric Boogaloo" is embarrassed as kid when performing this activity.
What is break-dancing?
The smallest country in the world.
What is the Vatican City?
Nonliteral words, phrases, and descriptions used to communicate an idea to a reader.
What is figurative language?
The location where Derek gives the narrator a bundle of roses in "Red Roses."
What is the lunchroom?
Saeng attempts this task in "The Winter Hibiscus."
What is her driver's test?
These hedgehog look-a-likes are mammals which notably lays eggs.
What are echidnas?
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is this specific kind of story.
Whit is an autobiography?
Saeng's family sells these things in "The Winter Hibiscus."
What are worms?
This is the grade level the narrator is at when she experiences her milestone moment in "Red Roses."
What is middle school.
Before the Nether was added to Minecraft Pocket Edition, this now unobtainable block was the only way to access nether exclusive items.
What is the Nether Reactor Core?
The poetic technique of not including punctuation at the end of a line.
What is enjambment?
This is the book which the narrator's younger self is reading in "Just be Yourself."
What is The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis?
In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Mrs. Flowers challenges the narrator to practice this activity.
What is reading books aloud?
The middle name of the 33rd U.S. President, Harry S Truman.
What is S? (yes, really, it's just S)