Who Said it?
"My father, they have killed me!"
Who is Ikemefuna?
Your words are like daggers.
What is a simile?
A series of independent clauses separated by a comma
What is a comma splice?
The one about the African writer's workshop
What is Jumping Monkey Hill?
The experience of belonging to multiple cultures at once.
What is cultural hybridity?
"Oh brave new world that has such people in it!"
Who is Miranda?
Your words are daggers.
What is a metaphor?
a series of independent clauses without punctuation separating them
What is a run-on sentence?
The one about the two women hiding during a riot.
What is a "a private experience"?
a person or culture which is treated as intrinsically different from oneself
What is "The Other"?
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep"
Who is Prospero?
An action or object that carries meaning beyond its literal definition.
What is a symbol?
A sentence that is missing a subject, verb or both.
What is a sentence fragment?
The one about the woman trying to get a visa to go to the US.
What is "The American Embassy"
being drawn to one thing while simultaneously desiring the opposite
What is ambivalence?
"A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!"
Who is Sebastian?
The daffodils are dancing in the breeze.
What is personification?
Putting "Okonkwo says" before a quote, for example.
What is a signal phrase?
The one told in the second person ("you") about a young woman winning the visa lottery who ends up living with an abusive uncle.
What is "The Thing Around Your Neck"
The social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group
What is hegemony?
“That boy calls you father. Do not bear a hand in his death.”
Who is Ogbuefi Ezeudu?
The adjective used to describe sensory imagery related to smell.
What is olfactory?
If I use "be/ is/ have/ has / do" too often in my sentences.
What are weak verbs?
The one about a Nigerian babysitter in an American family, where the mother is a painter and almost never leaves the basement.
What is "On Monday of Last Week"
A term coined by Edward Said (NMH Alum) who described the ways in which 18th to 20th century European scholars would construct an idea of the “The East” as exotic and uncivilized compared to the enlightened “West.
What is "Orientalism" ?