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Authors

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Who is the author of A Christmas Memory?

Truman Capote

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Who is the author of A Man Called Horse?

Dorothy M. Johnson

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Who is the author of The Sniper?

Liam O’Flaherty

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Who is the author of Poison?

Roald Dahl

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What is the pseudonym of the author of

The Interlopers?

Saki

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Who is the author of Thank You, Ma’m?

Langston Hughes

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Who is the author of Harrison Bergeron?

Kurt Vonnegut

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Who is the author of The Washwoman?

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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What is the penname (pseudonym) of the

author of The Gift of the Magi?

O. Henry

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Setting

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What was the setting at the beginning of A Man

Called Horse?

Boston, Massachusetts, in 1845

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What was the physical part of the setting of

Poison?

India

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What part of New York City did Roger and Mrs. Luella B.W. Jones live?

Harlem

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Which body of water provided the physical

setting of The Most Dangerous Game?

The Caribbean

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What are the two parts of a setting?

Time and place.

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What is the setting of The Sniper?

1920’s Ireland.

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Literary Terms

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A struggle or problem in the plot of a story.

Conflict

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The way a writer reveals him/herself by what people are

like by telling about their speech, actions, appearance,

etc.

Indirect characterization

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Any kind of writing or speaking or art that ridicules or

mocks some weakness in individuals or society.

Satire

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Mountain range setting of The Interlopers.

Carpathians

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A series of related events, each event connected to the next,

like links in a chain.

Plot

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A struggle against some outside enemy or some

internal problem.

Conflict

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Author of A Modest Proposal – one of the first known examples of

satire.

Jonathan Swift

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Sentence Structure

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Sentences StructureWhich is this?

Although the cost was little, the team

paid the price.

Complex Sentence

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Sentences StructureWhich is this?

Under the bridge the hobo savored his stew.

Simple Sentence

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Sentences StructureWhich is this?

Even though the food was plentiful, the Pilgrims ate little venison, and the Indians

ate only a little fish.

Compound-Complex

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Sentences StructureWhich is this?

Under the Tuscan moon the freedom fighter led his men to victory, and the Nazi

tried to stop him.

Compound

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That’s All!

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