Binti
can take the form of any ordinary object, character, idea, or even setting. These ordinary things represent ideas, qualities, or concepts beyond their literal meaning that help us uncover a text’s themes.
What is a symbol?
The act of placing contrasting or incongruous (incompatible) elements side by side, often to highlight their differences and create an effect, tension, or new meaning.
What is juxtaposition?
A written examination and judgment of a social situation, structure, beliefs, or set of ideas.
What is a societal critique?
BONUS: describe how to uncover a societal critique from a text for 200 points.
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work
What is imagery?
Sarcastic, critical, and mocking the weaknesses of a person or institution
What is satire?
recurring images, phrases/sentences, or concepts that take on a figurative or symbolic meaning throughout the story. A repeated symbol can become this and take on thematic importance in the text.
What is a motif?
a figure of speech that symbolically represents something by comparing it to something else
What is a metaphor?
the three basic appeals of rhetoric (the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques)
What are ethos, logos, and pathos?
BONUS: what does each element appeal to?
a literary device that highlights the difference between what is and how things appear
What is irony?
the role or behavior considered to be appropriate to a particular gender as determined by prevailing cultural norms.
What are gender roles?
Call to adventure.
What is the first step in The Hero's Journey?
a genre of literature that blends real historical events with fictional elements to create compelling stories set in the past. By weaving together facts and imagination, authors transport readers to different time periods
What is historical fiction?
the first three sub-types of humor that we learned in the Visibility Through Humor Unit.
What are physical humor, absurd humor, and self-deprecating humor?
BONUS: effectively define each kind of humor for 100 points each
short, amusing, or thought-provoking story used to demonstrate a point, entertain, or add value to a broader discussion
What is an anecdote?
the literary elements that's all about word choice
What is diction?
A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is a genre?
BONUS, 50 points for each named genre: Binti was an example of which three literary genres?
an unexplained reference to someone or something outside the text
What is an allusion?
BONUS: name one allusion from The Nickel Boys and the theme it developed for 100 points.
the organization and arrangement of elements within a literary work - how the plot, characters, themes, and other components are organized and presented to the reader. Common elements are: flashbacks and foreshadowing, repetition and patterns, nonlinear or fragmented structure, point of view:first-person or multiple points of view.
What is structure in literature?
out of place; something that doesn’t fit in its location or situation
What is incongruity?
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words, ie "it's raining cats and dogs" or "make ends meet" or "turn your stomach"
What is an idiom?
Joseph Campbell's all-embracing metaphor for the deep inner journey of transformation that heroes in every time and place seem to share, a path that leads them through great movements of separation, descent, ordeal, and return.
What is the Hero's Journey?
BONUS, 100 pts for each: Name up to three steps from the Hero's journey.
the three main elements of a body paragraph
What are topic sentence, evidence, and commentary?
SURPRISE: list as many elements of humor (learned from the unit, up to 9) as you can in 30 seconds for 100 points each.
Accepted elements:
tone, incongruity, analogy, anecdote, satire, exaggeration, absurdity, sarcasm, irony
using exaggeration to add more power to what you're saying
What is hyperbole?
the informal way people speak in everyday conversation, often with friends and family
What is colloquial language?