Review for Ayn Rand’s Anthem

1. Review for Ayn Rand’s Anthem BHS Ninth Grade

2. Why does Equality rename himself Prometheus?

3. What is Imagery?

4. What is Imagery? • Language that appeals to the senses, allows the reader to experience what the author is describing. • You’ve heard the saying “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Authors use imagery to convey a mental picture for the reader – more than they could accomplish with literal words.

5. Where is Equality able to experience laughter?

6. What does the torn tunic symbolize?

7. What is Verbal Irony?

8. What is Verbal Irony? • The speaker’s intended idea is far from the usual meaning of the words. • For example, a teenager tells his or her mother, “I just love cleaning my room” when the truth is far from this.

9. What is Situation Irony or Irony of Fate? • Irony of fate or situational irony refers to developments that are far from what is expected or believed to be deserved. • One example of Irony of Fate or Situational Irony is famed composer Ludwig von Beethoven’s loss of hearing.

10. During which time period was the underground tunnel built?

11. What is Dramatic Irony?

12. What is Dramatic Irony? • Dramatic Irony refers to a situation in which the audience knows more than a character on stage. • A character does or says something of greater importance than he or she knows. • The audience, however, is aware of the meaning and importance of the act or the speech.

13. What is the name that Equality gives Liberty?

14. Cosmic Irony

15. Cosmic Irony • When situation irony is associated with the notion of fate, or a deity, manipulating events so as to “frustrate and mock” a character in a literary work. • When the above occurs, situational irony has become cosmic irony.

16. What is Nonfiction?

17. What is Nonfiction? • Nonfiction is a genre based on fact. • Essays, editorials, and biographies are works of nonfiction. • Types of writing that are considered nonfiction include: • Exposition • Argument • Personal Essays • Speeches • Opinion Pieces • Essays about art or literature • Biographies • Memoirs • Journalism • Historical, Scientific, Technical, or Economic Accounts (Including Digital Sources) Written for a Broad Audience

18. According to this society, what is the root of all evil?

19. This is the home that equality wishes to be sent.

20. What is Fiction?

21. What is Fiction? • A literary genre based on imagination and not necessarily on fact. • Short stories and novels are examples.

22. What is Prose?

23. What is Prose? • Prose is a form of written language that is not organized according to any formal or structural repeating pattern of language.

24. What is the name that Equality gives himself?

25. What is a genre?

26. What is a genre? • Genre is the French term for a type, species, or class of composition.

27. What is a novel? • A novel is nearly always an extended work of fictional prose narrative. Prose is a form of written language that is not organized according to any formal or structured repeating pattern of language. Novels are lengthier than short stories which allow for a more subtle and involved development of plot, characters, symbols, and themes in this literary genre. • Novels generally follow the plot diagram in that they have an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

28. What is the only reason that Equality will return to his old city?

29. Name one way equality is different from others in his society.

30. What is Verse?

31. What is Verse? • Verse is also called ‘fixed form’ • Writing that indicates the technical requirements of meter and rhythm are present. • Many poems are written in verse and have specific requirements on length, rhyme scheme, and number of syllables. • A sonnet, for example, is a fourteen-lined poem written in iambic pentameter which is a type of verse.

32. What is hidden in the uncharted forest?

33. What is the only crime punished by task?

34. What is Setting?

35. What is Setting? • 1. Time and place in which action occurs. • 2. Writers often tell more than date and location. Weather, scenery, rooms, local customs, clothing, and dialects are elements of the setting of a work.

36. What are the Five Different Uses of Setting? 1. To create mood or atmosphere. • a. A log cabin nestled in a beautiful mountain canyon -- peaceful, happy mood. • b. Wet, dark tunnel --scary mood 2. To inform readers about different ways of life. • a. Details about clothing, customs, and speech patterns a reader can get a sense of what it is really like to live in that story. 3. To make the action of a literary work seem more real. • a. Vivid details can take readers to imaginary and far-away times and places. 4. To Contribute to the conflict or struggle. • a. Arctic settings may involve a character's struggle to survive in extreme weather. 5. To symbolize, or stand for, some idea that the writer wants to emphasize. • a. A spring setting may symbolize hopeful beginnings and growth. • b. Winter may symbolize death or loneliness.

37. Once in the forest, how does equality feel about friendship?

38. Anthem exposes the horrors of what type of government?

39. What is Tone?

40. What is Tone? • Tone is the author’s attitude toward the subject he or she is writing about. • Tone is reflected in the author’s word choices or diction, style, and opinions. • Some words used to describe tone in literature are ironic, serious, puzzled, intimate, outraged, and cynical.

41. How does equality hope the council will respond to his invention?

42. When Liberty learns the unspeakable word, what is the first thing she says to Equality?

43. What is Mood?

44. What is Mood? • Mood in a work of literature is a feeling or emotion created by the choice of words, the characters and their actions, and the setting. • Some authors create mood by using imagery.

45. What happened to end the unmentionable times?

46. This person has only “half of brain”.

47. What is a Symbol?

48. What is a Symbol? • A symbol is something that stands for itself concretely and for something else outside of itself (normally an abstraction).

49. What is the sacred word?

50. This is the group that rejects equality’s invention.