Identify the rhetorical strategy. “The sea is without a wrinkle. There is not a whisper of wind.”
pg.274
What is personification?
100
The two things Pi has heard much nonsense about.
pg. 19
What is zoos and God & religion?
100
Life of Pi is based on a true story.
What is true? Life of Pi is based on the real events experienced by Piscine Molitor Patel.
100
Introduced Pi to Christianity. pg 67
Who is Father Martin?
100
Rodent that appeared, astonished Pi , and caught Richard Parker’s attention.
pg. 19
What is a rat?
200
Identify the rhetorical strategy. “Of whatever food I caught, Richard Parker took the lion’s share, so to speak.”
pg. 284
What is an extended metaphor?
200
The cause Pi’s disturbed sleeping schedule while at sea.
pg. 250
What is the apprehension and anxiety?
200
Pi survived 53 days at sea.
What is false? Pi survived 227 days at sea.
200
Taught Pi to swim.
Who is Francis Adirubasamy (Mamaji)?
200
Pi’s biology teacher, a regular at the zoo, the first atheist Pi meets. pg.31
Who is Mr. Satish Kumar?
300
Identify the rhetorical strategy. “These trees were without a doubt the gates into a meerkat arboreal city with more bustle in it than Calcutta.” pg.351
What is an allusion?
300
Pi's most prized possession. (pg.140)
What is the net?
300
Pi’s final plan for Richard Parker was plan number six.
What is false? It was Pi's seventh plan.
300
Atheist biology teacher at Petit Seminaire, Pi’s favorite teacher.
Who is Satish Kumar?
300
Fellow castaways in the lifeboat with Pi and Richard Parker.
pg. 137
What are, an Orangutan (Orange Juice), Hyena, and Zebra?
400
Identify the rhetorical strategy. “My religious doings were reported to my parents in the hushed, urgent tones of treason revealed.” pg. 90
What is a metaphor?
400
Who Pi is referring to in this quote “As soon as I try to have a good look at her, she fades. It’s the same with her voice. If I saw her again in the street, it would all come back. But that’s not likely to happen.”
pg. 110
What is his mother?
400
Pi was named after an exquisite pool in Germany.
What is false? Pi was named after an extremely clean pool in France.
400
A fearsome bowler and powerful batter, the captain of the town’s best cricket team.
Who is Ravi Patel, Piscine’s brother?
400
Pi finds this inside a fruit from the algae trees.
pg. 354
What is a human tooth?
500
Identify the rhetorical strategy. “Every hair on me was standing up, shrieking with fear.”
pg.191
What is a hyperbole?
500
What Father Martin, from the first Christian church Pi encounters, says is the reason behind the resurrection of Jesus Christ, (1 word) pg. 68
What is 'love'?
500
Wild Guinea Pigs are not dangerous.
What is false? “to grab a wild guinea pig with your bare hands would be like taking hold of a knife by the blade.” - Pi’s Father
500
Helps Pi stay alive, eats hyenas, fish, meerkats, and castaways. Pi’s companion.
Who is Richard Parker?
500
Pi’s reaction to seeing Richard Parker in the ocean while he was aboard the lifeboat.
pg 121
What is helping Richard Parker back into the lifeboat?