Characters and Motivations
In The Book of the Dead, Annie travels to Florida with her father to do this with her mahogany sculpture.
(What is sell it?)
Danticat shows that artwork or stories that hide painful truths can delay this important healing process.
(What is facing/reconciling with the past?)
The traditions, beliefs, and history passed down through generations of a family.
(What is heritage / culture?)
$100: Using the surrounding words, sentences, or paragraphs to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word is using these.
(What are context clues?)
$100: This mahogany object carved by Annie is thrown into a lake because it idealizes a false history.
(What is the statue / sculpture?)
Yonatan's primary goal in filming his documentary in What, of the Goldfish, Would You Wish? is to capture this across diverse people.
(What are universal human wishes/desires?)
Glancy’s poem demonstrates that fitting into modern urban job routines often forces people to quietly hide this.
(What is their traditional cultural heritage/identity?)
The feeling of being removed or forced out of your traditional homeland or environment.
(What is displacement?)
$200: While a topic is simply the broad subject of a text (like "family" or "jealousy"), a theme is this.
(What is the main message, lesson, or insight about life the author conveys?)
$200: This physical mark on the father's face was originally believed to be from torture, but was actually inflicted by a victim fighting back.
(What is the scar?)
In Without Title, the speaker's father works at this urban location to support his family.
(What is a meatpacking plant / stockyard?)
Keret’s story illustrates how these two intense emotions can drive people to act selfishly toward strangers.
(What are fear and loneliness?)
The attitude or feeling an author expresses toward their subject or audience through their choice of words.
(What is tone?)
$300: Using an author’s exact words inside quotation marks to support an argument is known as using this type of quote.
(What is a direct quote?)
$300: Mentioned in Diane Glancy's poem, "brought home" velvet these represent the father's connection to his Native heritage despite living in the city.
(What are horns / antlers?)
Annie’s father confesses he was never a political prisoner; instead, he worked as this violent figure under Haiti's Duvalier regime.
(What is a prison guard?)
Both The Book of the Dead and What, of the Goldfish, Would You Wish? show that making moral choices often requires giving up this.
(What is personal comfort / self-preservation / safety?)
$400: An indirect reference to a famous historical, literary, or religious text within a story.
(What is an allusion?)
$400: Rephrasing or summarizing an author’s ideas in your own words without using exact quotation marks is known as using this type of quote.
(What is an indirect quote / paraphrasing?)
$400: This magical creature acts as both Sergei's sole companion and his moral conscience.
(What is the goldfish?)
Sergei attacks Yonatan when he enters his apartment out of panic that Yonatan will do this.
(What is take/stolen his magic goldfish?)
Both Danticat’s story and Glancy’s poem reveal that children often do this to their parents' pasts before learning the full truth.
(What is idealize / reconstruct / romanticize them?)
$500: In Haitian history, this term literally refers to a torturer who operates early in the morning before dawn.
(What is a "dew breaker"?)
$500: To identify and analyze a story's theme, a reader must look beyond the basic plot and examine how characters change, how conflicts resolve, and how these repeat throughout the text.
(What are symbols or motifs?)
Danticat references this ancient text, in which a deceased person’s heart is weighed against a feather to judge their moral guilt.
(What is the Egyptian Book of the Dead?)