05.03 Novel/Short Story Analysis Worksheet "The Giver" 35 points

DIRECTIONS

Use complete sentences to respond to each question about your novel or short story.

When providing quotes from your text, include page numbers in parentheses.

Example:

Describe the protagonist of your novel or short story.

The protagonist of my novel is a tough 16-year-old girl named Delaney, who is struggling to raise her little sisters.

Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.

Although she was just 16 years old, Delaney had spent much of them providing for her sisters. She displayed the toughness—and weariness—of someone twice her age” (page 16).

Title of short story or novel The Giver

Author Lois Lowry

1. Describe the setting of your novel or short story.

2. Describe the protagonist of your novel or short story.

Provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.

3. Discuss the main conflict in your novel or short story. If the conflict is not perfectly clear yet, what do you suspect it will be? Explain who is trying to do what.

Which of the four major types of conflict best describes the situation you discussed?

4. Provide at least two examples of dialogue in your novel or short story that support the type of conflict you have identified.

Explain how each example of dialogue supports the conflict.

5. Describe two examples of rising action events in your novel or short story.

Provide a quotation from the text to support your answers.

Read this excerpt from tim o’brien‘s “ambush” “i had already pulled the pin on a grenade. i had come to a crouch” which literary device is most clearly shown in this excerpt?

In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. when the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the constitution and the declaration of independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every american was to fall heir. this note was a promise that all men—yes, black men as well as white men—would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. it is obvious today that america has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. instead of honoring this sacred obligation, america has given the negro people a bad check, a check that has come back marked “insufficient funds.” but we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. we refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. and so we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and security of justice. in this section of the speech, analyze martin luther king’s connection between a defaulted promissory note and the lack of freedom experienced by african americans. which option offers the best analysis? question 3 options: mlk creates this analogy to communicate that america has enough freedom for all, but it needs to live up to its promises. mlk makes the analogy that america has run out of freedom. not everyone deserves to have it. mlk communicates that america should equally distribute funds to all citizens. everyone deserves equal access to the government’s money. mlk demonstrates that america is improving in equality and should keep the forward momentum.

Who was kubla khan? a. a real person in history b. a fictional character popular in coleridge’s day c. a figure that appeared to coleridge in a dream d. a