Flash Fiction
Length of a flash fiction piece.
Write a sentence that uses alliteration.
Up to teacher discretion.
What poetry accomplishes.
What is makes the reader experience something new or creates and directs a distinct emotional experience?
Time period when Pride and Prejudice/Tess of D'Urbervilles was written. (Don't just say what century, name the ERA)
What is the victorian era/gothic era/romantic era?
Define memoir and what it explores.
A memoir is a narrative, written from the perspective of the author, about an important part of their life (Celadon Books).
Exploring aspects of yourself, personal identity, memoir, etc; choosing moments of your life to dissect and reflect on.
Explain why this is a bad memoir ending.
In conclusion, I learned that I needed to have patience and practice frequently to succeed.
What is: Direct/dry and thus less impactful. Your ending shouldn’t read like a summary!
Three themes that are commonly used in writing competitions.
What is family, love, friendship, intersections of two different but shared identities/cultures, Memory, Identity, Translation, Change etc.
Devices of Poetry.
Identify which line comes from pride and prejudice.
A: “If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”
B: “My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”
C: “Evil to some is always good to others.”
What is B? (A and C are from other Austen novels)
The best memoir topic from this list.
A: Leading a robotics team to a state victory despite previous struggles
B: Moving to another country
C: Being fed fish-eyes instead of an american breakfast on the morning of the SAT
What is C?
Explain "less is more."
What is: the goal of a short story is to deliver a specific emotional punch or experience; whereas novels are about immersion and engagement?
Define author identity.
What is a compilation of the themes, motifs/symbols/ideas, and stylistic choices an author explores.
Identify two of the three literary devices being used.
Carve a portion of the day out of a bomb-bright page
What is rhyme, alliteration, personification?
Define Romanticism.
What is the countermovement to Age of Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, and Neoclassical Lit Period, with a focus on the INDIVIDUAL, telling human stories?
Name three of the five elements of a good memoir.
What is realism, authenticity, focused/specific writing, themes, and elements of a normal story?
What is:
Exposition: Establish the POV, attitude, action/reflection
Rising Action: Demonstrate conflict through the character’s “attempts and failures,” however defined
Climax: The most intense, exciting, or important point of something
Falling Action: Wrapping up the ends of the story, turning point from climax that leads into ending.
Resolution: Ending, usually shows change
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Name seven of the eleven categories of writing on the Scholastic Art & Writing competition (no peeking)!
What is...
Critical Essay
Dramatic Script
Flash Fiction
Journalism
Humor
Novel Writing
Personal Essay & Memoir
Poetry
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Short Story
Writing Portfolio (graduating seniors only)?
Author of this excerpt.
It feels inexhaustible to manipulate space in poetry, and this is why I feel, linguistically, that poetry is the most innovative medium. We are forced to make decisions at the most minute stages of the craft.
Who is Ocean Vuong?
Is Tess really a relative of the widow d'Urberville?
What is: No, the widow’s husband had merely taken on the name to distance himself from his old family.
Draw a converging, diverging, and circular memoir structure
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KxSHELG9ESh5Bc2Om22brcvfRKCzDVwLkVVytfthxOw/edit?usp=sharing
What is slide 18 on week 2?
Identify the author of the famous flash fiction piece:
For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.
Who is Ernest Hemmingway?
Write a 53 word memoir in three minutes or less.
Up to teacher discretion.
Identify the meter and foot in the sample below.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
What is iambic pentameter?
Mr. Collins' favorite vegetable.
What are potatoes?
"What excellent boiled potatoes! Many years since I've had such an exemplary vegetable. To which of my fair cousins should I compliment the excellence of the cooking?”
Name of essay/book from which this is excerpted.
I’m not just on the hunt for cuttlefish and three bunches of scallions for a buck; I’m searching for their memory. I’m collecting the evidence that the Korean half of my identity didn’t die when they did.
(Bonus 200 if you identify the author)
What is Crying in H-Mart, by Michelle Zauner?