Question | Answer |
What is a utopia? | When the world has come to a perfect society where all social, political, evils of mankind have been eliminated |
What is a dystopia? | Where the saturated utopias depict societies which have attempted to eliminate the troubles of mankind and in doing so, having created new evils |
What is a satire? | Form of literature that uses irony and ridicule to expose human follies and faults |
What are the 5 parts to a short story? | Exposition, Climax, Conflict, Resolution, Conclusion |
What is a setting? | The time and place |
What is a theme? | The big idea or life lesson we can apply to our own lives |
What is symbolism? | The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities |
What is verbal irony? | The contrast between what is said and what is meant |
What is dramatic irony? | What the character thinks to be true and what we (the reader) know to be true |
What is situational irony? | The contrast between what happens and what was expected |
What is foreshadowing? | The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later |
What is imagery? | Language that evokes 1 or all of the five senses |
What is tone? | The attitude a writer takes towards a subject or character |
What is mood? | The atmosphere |
What is an allusion? | A reference to a person, place, history, etc. |
What is magic realism? | Transformation of common and everyday into the awesome and unreal (dreams, fairytales, or mythology) |
What is a first person point of view? | The narrator is a character in the story |
What is a second person point of view? | Narrator involves reader |
What is a third person point of view? | Outside narrator |
What is a third person omniscient point of view? | Seems to know thoughts, feelings, and motives |
What is direct characterization? | When the author tells us |
What is indirect characterization? | When we have to infer or personality of characters based on text support |
In the Lottery, Who is Mr. Summers? | He's responsible for the logistics of running the lottery |
According to the government, was is Harrison Bergeron trying to do? | He's trying to overthrow the government |
How does the government try to handicap George in Harrison Bergeron? | They send loud noises through a transmitter in his ears |
What is The Fun They Had about? | Margie and Tommy envy the "ancient" system of education that had separate buildings with human teacher and room full of kids learning at the same time |
Which action shows that Jimmy Valentine may be a decent man in a Retrieved Reformation? | He falls in love at first sight for Annabel Adams and wants to be a better man |
Why is Margot different from all the other children in All Summer In A Day? | Margot has a memory of life on earth |
In the Bet, what is the subject of the banker's and lawyer's conversation at the very beginning? | They were discussing capital punishment |
In a Very Old Man with Wings, Pelayo's and Elisenda's life is changed by the angel how? | They use the angel to make them money |
At the beginning of The Gift of the Magi, what is Della upset about it? | She's upset that she can't afford a nice gift for her husband |