Trashketball

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Trashketball

• Drama Unit (Animal Farm)Review
• DLT I can distinguish the characteristics of
  dramatic literature

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Rules of Trashketball

1. Stay in your seats at all times.
2. You will have 30-60 seconds to discuss the answer
   to a question AND
3. Write ONE response to the question on a sheet of
   paper.
4. All teams will hold up their answers.
5. If you are correct, your team will get the
   opportunity to shoot the correct response into
   the trashcan from a 1, 2, or 3 point line.
6. If the shot is made, the team gets extra-credit.
   
7. Shots will be made after ALL the questions have
   been answered.

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• Q.1) 
• Describe theme

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Answer

• The big idea or what the story is about.

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• Q. 2- How is plot described?

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Answer

• The action or sequence of events

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• What is the point of view in a story, poem,
  essay, or drama?

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• The point of view comes from the person who is
  telling the story, whether it is a narrator or
  character

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• What is the definition of fiction?

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Answer

• Literature in which the plot and characters are
  imaginary.

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• When an object stands for or represents something
  else, what literary device is the writer using?

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Answer

• Symbolism

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• What is the term that is used for good word
  choice?

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• Diction

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What is the definition of the climax of a story?
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Answer

• The high point of interest or suspense

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• What is the denouement or falling action in
  fiction or drama?

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• The resolution of the conflict after the climax
  in the fiction or drama and thus providing an
  outcome to the plot situation

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• What is dialogue?

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Answer

• Someone talking within the play or story set off
  by quotation marks.

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• Rising action, considering plot and narrative, is
  best described as what?

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• Events or sequence that build up to the climax

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• When a character gives a speech, what term best
  describes this?

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Answer

• Monologue

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• What term best describes a long speech expressing
  the thoughts or feelings by a character on stage
  who is trying to make a decision that is very
  serious and difficult?

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Answer

• Soliloquy

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• A stage performer may make comments intended to
  be heard only by the audience and supposedly not
  by the characters. What do we call this?

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Answer

• Aside

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• What kind of comparison is being used in the
  phrase her words fell on me like a load of
  bricks?

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Answer

• Simile

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• Dramatic irony is a particular kind of irony that
  involves the character in fiction or drama.
  Describe this technique.

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• An event that directly contradicts what is
  expected. The readers know something the
  character do not.

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• The following is an example of ______
• The car huffed and puffed all the way up the hill

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• Personifcation

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• A character who serves as a contrast or conflict
  to another character, similar to the protagonist,
  is a _________character.

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• A foil character

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• What kind of comparison is being used in the
  following His eyes were piercing darts into my
  soul.

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• Metaphor

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• What is an allegory?

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• The characters stand for virtues and vices. There
  is more than 1 level of meaning.

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• What is a fabel?

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• A story/play that has more than one level of
  meaning.

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• Which animals seem to represent ordinary, decent
  citizens?

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• Jessie and Muriel

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• What is the moral of Animal Farm?

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• An idealistic system can easily be corrupted.

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• Which character symbolizes positive leadership
  for the revolution?

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• Snowball

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• George Orwell wrote Animal Farm because of his

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• Hatred for injustice and political lying

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• Which character does not represent a satirical
  character
• Squealer
• Napoleon
• Mr. Jones
• Boxer

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Answer

• Boxer

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• What are the themes for Animal Farm

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• Freedom and individual dignity should be guarded.
• Weakness can be dominated by strength, fear, and
  trickery.
• Vision and hope must be kept alive
• Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts
  absolutely.
• Language is a powerful tool, used improperly it
  can enslave us.