Trashketball

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

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

sheet of paper.

to the question on a 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

credit. gets extra 7. Shots will be made

after ALL the questions have been answered.

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Q.1)

Describe theme

1

Answer

The big idea or what the story is about.

2

Q. 2- How is plot described?

Answer

The action or sequence of events

3

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

Answer

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

4

What is the definition of fiction?

Answer

Literature in which the plot and characters are imaginary.

5

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

Answer

Symbolism

6

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

Answer

Diction

7

What is the definition of the climax of a story?

Answer

The high point of interest or suspense

8

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

Answer

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

What is dialogue?

9

Answer

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

10

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

Answer

Events or sequence that build up to the climax

11

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

• Monologue

Answer

12

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?

• Soliloquy

Answer

13

• 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?

• Aside

Answer

14

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

• Simile

Answer

15

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

Answer

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

16

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

• Personifcation

Answer

17

• A character who serves as

a contrast or conflict to another character

, similar to the protagonist, is a _________character.

• A foil character

Answer

18

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

• Metaphor

Answer

19

• What is an allegory?

Answer

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

• What is a fabel?

20

Answer

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

21

Which animals seem to represent ordinary, decent citizens?

Answer

• Jessie and Muriel

22

• What is the moral of Animal Farm?

Answer

• An idealistic system can easily be corrupted.

23

Which character symbolizes positive leadership for the revolution?

• Snowball

Answer

24

George Orwell wrote Animal Farm because of his…

Answer

• Hatred for injustice and political lying

25

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

• Boxer

Answer

26

• What are the themes for Animal Farm

Answer

• 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.