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Ransom of
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The Lady or
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4. The problem or struggle between two opposing forces

5. Conflict

6. Name two forms of fiction.

7. Short Stories
and Novels

8. What is a long work of literature that involves a complicated plot?

9. Novel

10. The sequence of events in a story is called the:

11. Plot

12. Name the five stages of plot.

13. Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution

14. What is figurative language?

15. Anything written or spoken that is not meant to be taken literally.

16. What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

17. A smile compares two things using “like” or “as
A smile compares two things using “like” or “as.” A metaphor compares two things without using “like” or “as”.

18. What is alliteration?

19. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.

20. What is personification?

21. Personification is when a writer describes something that is not human as if it were.

22. What is hyperbole?

23. Exxageration

24. What is a biography?

25. The story of someone’s life as told by someone else.

26. What is an autobiography?

27. The story of someone’s life written by that person.

28. What is a memoir?

29. A memoir is an autobiography that focuses on one period of a person’s life.

30. This is the main point of an essay.

31. What is a THESIS?

32. The writer’s attitude towards a subject

33. Tone

34. Johnny’s kidnappers pay Johnny’s father to take him back
Johnny’s kidnappers pay Johnny’s father to take him back. Which literary device does this example demonstrate?

35. Irony

36. How much did Johnny’s kidnappers ask for in ransom?

37. $1,500

38. Why does Bill refuse to sleep around Johnny?

39. Johnny tried to scalp him

40. How much did the kidnappers pay Johnny’s father?

41. $250

42. Why did Bill say his favorite Biblical character was King Herod?

43. King Herod ordered the execution of all boys in Bethlehem.

44. What does the king use the arena for in The Lady or the Tiger?.

45. To decide the innocence or guilt of the accused

46. What was the young man’s crime?

47. He loved the princess, who was above his “station” in life.

48. Name two reasons the princess may have led the young man to the tiger.

49. She hated the young lady behind the door.
She was barbaric.
If she could not have him, no one could.
She was “imperious” and used to getting her way.

50. Why did the princess hate the lady behind the door?

51. She was beautiful.
She had dared to talk
to the young man.
She threw glances at
the young man.

52. If he opened the one, there came
out of it a hungry tiger, the fiercest
and most cruel that could be procured,
which immediately sprang upon him
and tore him to pieces,
as a punishment for his guilt.

53. To obtain or acquire

54. What made Ishi unique from the other Native Americans living in the U
What made Ishi unique from the other Native Americans living in the U.S. during the early 1900s?

55. He was living in the wild and had never experienced civilization.

56. Where did authorities first place Ishi when he was discovered?

57. Jail

58. Why was communication so difficult for Ishi?

59. There was no one left who spoke his language.

60. Ishi was written by Theodora Kroeber, the wife of an anthropologist who studied him. How did her perspective shape this biography?

61. She had a lot of “inside” information about Ishi.
She took a mostly scientific approach to her subject.
She approved of the way Ishi was treated by the anthropologists.

62. The last paragraph of “The Story of an Eyewitness” reads, in part:
“The government has the situation in hand, and, thanks to the immediate relief given by the whole United States, there is not the slightest possibility of famine. The bankers and the business men have already set about making preparations to rebuild San Francisco.”
What does this show about Jack London’s perspective and how did it influence this article?

63. London was optimistic and admired
how the people reacted to this tragedy,
both during it and after. His optimism
leaves readers with a hopeful feeling,
despite the widespread destruction.

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65. Child on Top of a Greenhouse
The wind billowing out the seat of my britches,
My feet crackling splinters of glass and dried putty,
The half-grown chrysanthemums staring up like accusers
Up through the streaked glass, flashing with sunlight
A few white clouds all rushing eastward,
A line of elms plunging and tossing like horses,
And everyone, everyone, pointing up and shouting!
The line in white is an example of TWO types of figurative language. Name them both.

66. Personification and Simile