What’s my THEME again?

1. What’s my THEME again? Hodge Podge Hodge Podge part deux The PLOT Thickens Literary Elements 100 100 100 100 100 500 400 300 200 500 400 300 200 400 400 200 300 200 500 300 200 500 400 300 500 End Game

2. Message or overall meaning of a story 100 Check Answer

3. What is theme? 100

4. The value of one life vs. the value of many. 200 Check Answer

5. What is the theme from “Cold Equations? 200

6. The quality of life vs. the quantity of material we put in it. 300 Check Answer

7. What is the theme from “How Much Land…”? 300

8. Could be greed, value of life vs. no life, or accomplishments on earth are meaningless. 400 Check Answer

9. What are the possible themes from “The Bet”? 400

10. Theme open to interpretation. 500 Check Answer

11. What is an ambiguous theme? 500

12. Attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character. 100 Check Answer

13. What is tone? 100

14. Identify story based on tone. “I proudly told him, grinning, ‘Right!’” 200 Check Answer

15. What is “Hair?” 200

16. Feeling of anxious curiosity about what is going to happen next. 300 Check Answer

17. What is suspense? 300

18. Used for the first half of “The Bet” to fill in events that happened in the past. 400 Check Answer

19. What is flashback? 400

20. Identify based on tone. “He stared without speaking, his hand dropping away…, & acceptance of what he saw coming like a heavy & unexpected physical blow.” 500 Check Answer

21. What is “Cold Equations” 500

22. Initial proposal for length of bet in “The Bet.” 100 Check Answer

23. What is 5 years? 100

24. It’s the reason Marilyn hid on the EDS. 200 Check Answer

25. What is to see her brother on Woden? 200

26. His lust for land cause his death. 300 Check Answer

27. Who is Pahom? 300

28. Character in “Typhoid Fever” that provides some comic relief. 400 Check Answer

29. Who is Seamus? 400

30. Identify the story. “He was pleased the peasant’s wife led her husband to boasting..” 500 Check Answer

31. What is “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” 500

32. Frank and Patricia; Fever hospital in Ireland during WWII 100 Check Answer

33. What is exposition of “Typhoid Fever?” 100

34. Malcolm looks in the mirror for the first time at his “conked” hair. 200 Check Answer

35. What is climax of “Hair?” 200

36. Barton radios the Stardust and provides them with information regarding his situation. 300 Check Answer

37. What is rising action in “Cold Equations?” 300

38. This immediately follows a story’s climax. 400 Check Answer

39. What is falling action? 400

40. Marilyn says I’m ready and steps into the air lock and Barton pulls the lever. 500 Check Answer

41. What is the climax of “Cold Equations?” 500

42. Identify the type of conflict. Knowing that your imprisonment is voluntary, but choosing to try to stick it out. 100 Check Answer

43. What is internal conflict? 100

44. It saves the lawyer’s life. 200 Check Answer

45. What is the letter renouncing the money? 200

46. It’s the reason Marilyn has to “leave” the ship. 300 Check Answer

47. What is not enough fuel for her weight? 300

48. Identify the story. “It had struck their camp without warning-a thundering, roaring destruction that sought to annihilate all that lay before it.” 400 Check Answer

49. What is “Cold Equations?” 400

50. It’s the answer to the question: How much land does a man need. 500 Check Answer