Alexie establishes the true-to-life, day-to-day action of his novel by calling it this, which must be "Absolutely True."
What is a "diary?"
100
The final parable in A Long Way Gone involves the killing of this animal.
What is a monkey?
100
As a member of this minority group, Hassan suffers the brunt of Afghan ethnic oppression.
What are the Hazaras?
100
Sandra Cisneros's novella is broken up into over 25 very short chapters, known as these.
What are vignettes?
100
In addition to logos and ethos, this rhetorical device deals primarily with emotional appeals made in any type of artistic expression.
What is pathos?
200
One of the images in Alexie's Part-Time Indian positions a stereotypical white student side-by-side with a stereotypical American Indian student to magnify the differences between the two using this device that begins with a "J".
What is juxtaposition?
200
Beah is helped through his rehabilitation primarily by this static female character.
Who is Esther?
200
During Amir's early life, this character most effectively acts as a foil to Baba, providing Amir with much needed male approval.
Who is Rahim Khan?
200
It becomes clear from the very first of Esperanza's stories that her personal American Dream stems from her desire to own one of these.
What is a house/home?
200
Lieutenant Jabati's connection to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Soraya Taheri's connection to Bronte's Wuthering Heights are both forms of this commonly used literary device.
What is allusion?
300
Name one way in which Alexie's character Rowdy embodies the struggles of the Native American people.
What is his overt aggression/violence, his alcoholic father?
300
The nickname created by the corporal for Beah during their struggles against the rebellion; connected to the motif of Nature as well as to the Bible.
What is Green Snake?
300
Hosseini alludes to this story in the Middle Eastern epic the "Shahnahmeh," about a warrior king and his forgotten son.
What is "Rostam & Sohrab?"
300
Many of Mango Street's stories connect to this gendered concept, which literally translated from the Spanish means "most manly."
What is "machismo?"
300
Esperanza expresses a desire in her final story to "go away to come back" to Mango Street, which is this type of literary device.
What is a paradox?
400
When attending Reardan High School, Alexie dresses differently to fit in and goes to a school dance with Penelope trying to pretend he isn't poor, both of which are examples of this cultural phenomenon.
What is cultural assimilation?
400
Beah uses this literary device throughout his novel, which uses personified aspects within Nature to help reflect the moods and emotions of his scenes and characters.
What is pathetic fallacy?
400
The fact that redemption is possible with time is reflected first by this female Kite Runner character.
Who is Sanaubar?
400
The character of Geraldo from the story "Geraldo No Last Name" and the character of Mamacita in "No Speak English" both illustrate the invisibility of this class of American people.
Who are immigrants?
400
Name at least FOUR out of all FIVE categories of sensory imagery. (using the describing word, NOT the sense itself!)
What are visual, auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic, gustatory?
500
During the unit on Alexie, we watched a documentary with this title, which historically compared Native Americans with an animal used in coal mines to warn miners of imminent danger.
What is "The Canary Effect?"
500
Beah describes living his life in three worlds. Name the three worlds Beah lives in.
What are his dreams, the past, and the present.
500
When his character reemerges two-thirds through The Kite Runner, Assef is dressed in dark spectacles and a white robe, earning him an ironic comparison to these two icons of the Western world.
Who are Jesus Christ and John Lennon?
500
In one of her early stories, Cisneros uses this aspect of each of her family members to help indirectly characterize them.
What is their hair?
500
Saying that someone is "a little thin on top" instead of "balding," or that some "has passed" instead of "died" are both examples of a literary device which creates a more socially acceptable method of saying something considered taboo, otherwise know as this.