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| Leisel Meminger (spelled wrong) |
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Main character in The Book Thief. Brother dies on the train on the way to new home, steals books
The Book Theif |
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| Leisel Meminger's foster father. Plays the accordion, teaches Leisel how to read |
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| Leisel's foster mother, harsh, "tough love", washes clothes for the wealthy, calls Leisel "sausmench" |
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| Leisel's best friend, sticks up for her when she is crying in the rain, always wants to kiss her, her partner in crime |
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| Spits on Rosa's door everytime she walks by, has Leisel read to her, one son died in battle and the other commited suicide |
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| Aryan corner-shop owner, obsessed with Hitler. You must say "heil Hitler" to be served |
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| Has cronic ear infections, twitches, gets beat up by Leisel because he is in her line of fire, scared of her afterwards |
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| Son of Rosa and Hans, obsessed with Hitler. Runs off when he and his father get into an argument and never returns |
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| Daughter of Rosa and Hans, a live in house maid |
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| Jewish man who hides out in the basement of the Hubermanns, writes books for Leisel |
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| "heaven" in German, the street that Leisel lives on |
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| Rudy's Hitler Youth leader, very mean to him |
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| the mayors wife who allows Leisel to read books from her library |
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| man who despised Hans Hubermann, ends up dying in wreck when he makes Hans trade seats with him |
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| The Gravedigger's Handbook |
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| the first book that Leisel steals |
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| book that Max writes for Leisel |
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| Shakespearean/ Elizabethan Sonnet structure |
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| Fourteen iambic pentameter lines divided into 3 quatrains and one couplet |
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| point in a sonnet where poem changes in mood or term |
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play on words which hav ethe same sound but different meanings
high comedy technique |
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| Weak syllable, strong syllable |
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10 syllables
5 weak
5 strong
weak, strong |
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metaphysical poet
Valediction: Forbidding mourning
Death Be Not Proud
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unusual comparisons in metaphysical poetry
(e.g. John Donne comparing relationship to a compass, gold, circle) |
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| something that seems contradictory but is actually true |
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| Shakespeare's place of birth |
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Women and men acted during the Elizabethan era |
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Plays before the Elizabethan era were only centered around religion |
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plays not based on religion were not socially acceptable before this time |
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Special effects were not around during the Elizabethan era |
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They did have "special effects"
trap doors.. |
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| What color flags did they fly for each type of play? |
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white: comedy
Red: drama/tragedy
Yellow: histories |
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| woman that Shakespeare married, 8 years his senior, married because she was pregnant |
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| How many children did Shakespeare have? |
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| He had a daughter and then a pair of twins, but the male twin died |
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| king of the fairies in A Midsummer Nights Dream |
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| Queen of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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| girl in play who is supposed to marry Demetrius because her father wants her to, but she wants to marry Lysander |
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| girl that no one loves, she loves Demetrius, and in the end marries him because of the potion |
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| book that Max makes for Leisel |
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antagonist in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Hermia's father |
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| Place where A Midsummer Night's Dream is set |
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| "I have hated words, and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right" |
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Leisel Meminger
The Book Thief |
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| Who is Rudy obsessed with? |
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| What are Oberon and Titania fighting over? |
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also known as "Robin Goodfellow"
fairy who likes to cause mischief |
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| Themes in A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Love
Reality vs. Illusion |
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| The period of Jane Austen |
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| Jane Austen was one of __ children |
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Jane Austen had a very realistic style of writing |
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| How were the classes ranked during the Regency Era? |
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very rigid structure
-royalty
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Women in the upper class worked |
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It was socially unacceptable for women in the upper class to work |
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| The Bennets are members of which social class? |
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| Characterization in Austen's novels |
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she over-exaggerates characters, almost to the point of stereotyping
(e.g. Darcy- pride, stuck up) |
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| lacks seriousness of purpose or subtlety of manner and has little intellectual appeal- quarreling, fighting, drunkeness, scolding, physical comedy |
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Pure or serious comedy- appeals to the intellect
making fun of society, hypocrisy, satire |
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| Holding up to ridicule the follies and vices of a people or time |
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- characters argue about ideas like politics, sex, marriage
- satirize people and institutions like political parties, gov., churches, war, marriage
- use wit and clever language to mock opponent in an arguement
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- love affairs among the upper classes
- focus on witty language, clever speech, insults and "putdowns"
- society is often made up of cliques that are exclusive with certain groups as the in-crowd, with everyone else on the peripheal
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- dirty gestures
- exaggeration or understatements: big noses, accents
- physical comedy
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| Comedy causes us to realize the need for _________ |
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| Comedy is based on ______ |
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| exaggeration or overstatement |
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| discrepancy between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant |
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| a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degeree of truth |
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completely misusing a word;
an inappropriateness of speech resulting from the use of one word for another which resembles it |
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a group of apparently contradictory terms suggesting a paradox (i.e. Jumbo Shrimp)
something that doesnt make sense |
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| a play on words based on the similarity of sound between two words with different meanings |
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