Name That Technique!
“My memory is like a film…and when people ask me to remember something I can simply press Rewind and Fast Forward and Pause like on a video recorder.”
What is a 'simile'?
The year that 'Billy Elliot' was released.
2000.
When a person changes their name to fit in with the (generally Western) common/popular ones of their new culture, this is referred to as...
What is 'anglicisation' or 'anglicising names'?
The author and year of release of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'.
What is 'Mark Haddon and 2003'?
Name both of the prescribed texts we studied AND their authors.
What is 'Home by Catherine Cole' and 'How to Live Before You Die by Steve Jobs'?
"How can you get fired from a company you started?"
What is a 'rhetorical question'?
The module requires the study of the representation of individual and collective human experiences, including the _______ and ______ associated with or arising from them.
What is 'human qualities and emotions'?
'Mother' by Vuong Pham focuses heavily on this historical event which forced his mother to flee her homeland.
What is 'the Vietnam War'?
The text is a hybrid of two genres. Name them.
What is 'Crime Fiction/Mystery' and 'Bildungsroman'?
Name NESA's four types of writing.
What is 'informative, persuasive, discursive, and imaginative'?
"It will be in my mouth - a thin wafer of honey"
What is 'gustatory imagery'?
Anomalies, paradoxes, or inconsistencies...the one that would best fit the description of two opposing truths (such as Jackie's love for Billy but initially forbidding him to pursue dance) would be...
What is a 'paradox'?
The name and author of the poem which speaks to the importance of their Christian faith in guiding them.
What is 'Home by Miriam Wei Wei Lo'?
The literary concept regarding if a text continues to be relevant and important despite changing times/cultures, generally because of its portrayal of themes or characters.
What is 'literary value'?
Ethos, pathos, or logos...if a text appeals to you through its use of emotive language, it is most likely using...
What is 'pathos'?
"I like 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' because it is a detective story which means there are clues and Red Herrings."
What is 'intertextuality'?
There are five 'purposes' that a poet can have when interacting with prevailing assumptions. They are...
What is 'affirm, ignore, reveal, challenge, and disrupt'?
Name AND define four distinctive features used in the novel.
Options: Christopher's narrative voice, footnotes, alternating/non-cardinal chapters, orthography, genre and intertextuality, pictographs/pictograms, and diversions/digressions.
The film technique that refers to the placement of all things within a specific frame.
What is 'mise-en-scene'?
Name five of the six prescribed poems.
Options: 'This is where it begins', 'Home', 'New Accents', 'Translucent Jade', 'Circular Breathing', and 'Mother'
Name and describe at least four themes/ideas explored in the novel.
Options: order vs. chaos, family, love, difference and diversity, truth