Show:
"The Killers"
"Ten Indians"
"Hills like White..."
The Code Hero
Vocabulary
100
The man the killers are looking for
Who is Ole Anderson?
100
The name of Nick's girlfriend in the story
What is Prudence?
100
The country in which the story takes place
What is Spain?
100
The gender of a typical code hero
What is male?
100
The English word for "personkarakteristik"
What is "characterisation"?
200
The young man whose eyes we see events through
Who is Nick Adams?
200
The day the story is set
What is the fourth of July?
200
What Hemingway uses to characterise the man and the woman
What is dialogue? Evt. What is "showing"?
200
The big event early in the 20th. century that was influencial in the making of the code hero
What is World War I?
200
"Setting" consists of these three elements
What are TIME, PLACE, SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT? All three for a correct answer
300
The technique Hemingway uses to characterise the charactters in this story
What is "showing"? We only know a little about the characters. What we know we know from their actions and their dialogue.
300
The term we use about an "Indian" today
What is "native-American"?
300
Themes in the short story
What are relationships, waiting, abortion? Possibly others too? Like choice or being at a crossroads
300
The Spanish word that is often used to characterise the code hero's view of the meaning of life
What is Nada?
300
The English word for "frugtbarhed"
What is "fertility"?
400
Themes in the short story
What are killing, death, waiting and more? Name at least two
400
The geographical setting of the story/the "place"
What is "rural setting"? The bit in town we only hear about. Everything else is rural
400
Symbolism in the text
What is the landscape stands for the contrast between fertility and sterility? Or whatever is said that might mean the same
400
Activities that the code hero likes or finds important
What are sports and activities like hunting and bull-fighting? One of the three is ok
400
The word for the period in US history where it was illegal to buy and drink alcohol
What is "prohibition"?
500
The type of hero Nick can be characterised as
What is the code hero?
500
The image for Hemingway's style of writing where 7/8 is hidden
What is the ice-berg?
500
The reason the story is set at a railway station
What is a railway station is somewhere you start or end a journey? The journey is a symbol in the story. Or something with the same point as that
500
What the code hero does not show very often
What are "feelings" or "emotions"?
500
The literary period Hemingway is usually placed in and which can be seen clearly from the way he does characterisation
What is "Modernism"?