Honors World Lit final Flashcards

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Colonized Rwanda after wwI

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Belgians

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Make up 85% of Rwanda’s population. This group traditionally farmed crops. They were marginalized by the countries colonizers.

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Hutu

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Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in this village and had many happy experiences and memories there.

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Mataba

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Teacher who called out Immaculee for being a Tutsi during rollcall

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Búhoro

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Make up 14% of Rwanda’s population. they traditionally tended livestock. They were given power by the colonizers.

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Tutsi

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Immaculee received a scholarship to the National University in this city.

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Butare

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She met this man in college, he was Protestant, they dated for a couple years. Her parents were more concerned with him being a Protestant rather than him being a Tutsi.

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John

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President who organized a youth movement aimed at fighting Tutsi rebels

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Juvenal Habyarimana

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Imaculee’s home provence called __ to celebrate Easter with her family.

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Kibuye

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On April 6, 1994, the presidents plane was shot down near Rwandas capital named ___

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Kigali

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Imaculee’s family found comfort of the messages from _______, the leader of the Tutsi revels. he promised that if the Hutus didn’t stop killing Tutsis, the rebels would invade Rwanda to help protect them.

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Paul Kagame

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Paul Kagame’s army was known

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Rwandan Patriotic Front or RPF

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Imaculee’s father sent her to the home of this person for safety

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Pastor Murinzi

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The name of Imaculee’s father

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Leonard

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Imaculee’s childhoood best friend who did not help her or associate with her because she was Tutsi

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Janet

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Pastor Murinzi sent her brother Vianney and this person away from his house because it was “‘too dangerous to protect men”

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Augustine

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Imaculee’s beloved Damascene was killed at te hands of this childhood friend

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Samahe

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The only other member of Imaculee’s family to survive the genocide becuase he was studying in Senegal away from the violence

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Aimable

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At the French camp, Immaculee reunites with this one of her brothers longtime friend-she was horrified by the truths he revealed to her

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Jean Paul

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Margaret Atwood’s “Bread” is written from this point of view

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Second person - put the reader in the experiences described

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Sandra cisneros was born here

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Chicago

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Sandra Cisneros took frequent summer trips to

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Mexico

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Cisneros’ father’s thoughts on her career are detailed in this short story

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“His Story”

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In this story, Cisneros uses powerful metaphors to capture memories of her grandfather

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“Abuelito Who”

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In this story, a group of siblings are marginalized by American society, Mexican society, and even their grandmother
“‘Mericans”
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This grandmother spends the entire story praying to Our Lady of Guadeloupe at the Hill of
Tepeyac
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Cleofilas struggles with a life far from what shed dreamed while watching telenovelas in
“Women Hollering Creek”
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Juan Pedro seems to life a life of affluence in this place, but Cleofilas soon discovers this isn’t true
Texas
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The young girls in this story struggle with American materialism and stereotypes/standards for women
“Barbie-Q”
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“Barbie-Q” is written from this pov
Second-“You” are eager to acquire more Barbies and their accessories as you read
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez if known for writing in this style/ genre where unexpected, supernatural elements are infused into an otherwise realistic piece of fiction and never explained
Magical Realism
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Many Critics believe that Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s writings were influenced by this period of violent civil unrest in Columbia
La Violencia
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The couple in “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” are named
Elisenda and Pelayo
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“The Handsomest Drown Man in the World” is named
Esteban
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“The Handsomest Drown Man” can be read as an illlustration of humans’ capacity for this
faith
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The young girl in “And of Clay We Are Created” is named
Azucena
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The journalist in “And of Clay We are Created” is named
Rolf Carle
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The name of the AUthor of “The Yellow Wallpaper” -this person was prescribed the rest cure and hated it so much that they wrote a fictional account of what could happen
Gilman
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The rest cure was originally described by this person and they were well respected even though the rest cure was garbage
Dr. Mitchell
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The author of “The Story of an Hour” also wrote this story
“Desiree’s Baby”
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In “Desiree’s Baby” a young woman with a mysterious background marries a young man named_______. He runs a plantation with intense cruelty until his son is born. At that time, his violence lessens briefly.
Armand
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Armand is awful (sexism, racism, classism) and on top of that, he spends a lot of time at this place
La Blanche’s Cabin
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This playwright lived in Norway in the 19th century. They also spent 30 years in Italy
Ibsen
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Ibsen is known as the father of modern drama. He is known for his use of this element
Realism
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Ibsen’s heroes are often forced to choose this. They are torn between the desire for duty and the desire for self-fufillment
Conformaty
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In a Doll’s House, this man seeks to control his wife Nora
Torvald
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Nora is torn between supporting her husband, but she also needs to repay her debt to this person
Krogstad
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Nora also wants to help this friend find a steady job
Mrs. Linde
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Torvald’s longtime friend confides in his undying love for Nora just as she was about to ask him for help
Dr. Rank
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Nora desperately tries to distract her husband from the leyeron tray will reveal her deceit by dancing this for him
Torantella
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Mrs. Linde offers to help Nora, but she actually ends up rekindling her love for this person
Krogstad
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Despite his initial anger, this person offers to forgive Nora after the IOU is returned
Torvald
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In the end, this person leaves their family out of desire to find themself
Nora
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The children’s nurse who left her children for work. Nora briefly tries to understand this woman’s suffering, but is ultimately too preoccupied with her own worries to care very much
Anne Marie
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The Protagonist in the “Story of an Hour”
Louise
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The space between images in a graphic novel
Gutter
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A box that contains text elements such as scene-setting and description
Caption
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A box that contains dialogue and comes from a specific speaker’s mouth
Speech balloon
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Vladek considered himself irresistible to women hence this name for the first chapter
“The Shiek”
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Before his marriage, Vladek lives
Czestochowa
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After his marriage, Vladek opens a factory here with money from Anja’s father
Bielsko
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This woman goes to jail for documents that actually belong to Anja
Mrs. Stefanska-seamstress
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Anja and Vladek travel here to help her with her post-partum depression
Czechoslovakia
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When Vladek goes out fo the work camp, he is taken to this place instead of Sosnowiec
Lublin
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Vladek has to hide his identity to ride the train home. This person cries when he arrives home
Anja
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Vladek is upset by this hanging and reality sets in even further
Cohn
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This old governess turns Vladek and Anja away when they are looking for safety
Janina
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After Janina’s rejection this person took them in for a time
Mrs. Motonowa
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Vladek destroyed these diaries which upset Artie
Anja’s
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The end of volume I is Vladek and this person separated at the gates of Aushwitz
Anja
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Vladek and Anja’s first son who died by celebrate poisoning during the war
Richieu
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This old man who started out in Aushwitz with Vladek and did not have sufficient clothes or shoes. Vladek can only guess how he disappeared
Mandelbaum
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This lady helped communicate between Vladek and Anja between Birkenau and Auschwitz
Mancie
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Art Spiegalman’s wife is named
Francoise
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The narrator in the yellow wallpaper-supposedly named this
Jane
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The husband in the yellow wallpaper who is a doctor and “cares about” the narrator and knows better
Dr. John
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In the yellow wallpaper, the narrator’s sister in law and housekeeper
Jennie
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The husband who supposedly died in “The Story of an Hour”
Brently Mallard
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Louises sister in the Story of an hour who tells her about the death of her husband
Josephine
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The kids in “Mericans” are named
Micaela, Junior, and Keeks
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Protagonist in “Women Hollering Creek” who marries Juan Pedro and suffers from domestic abuse
Cleofilas
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The husband in “Woman Hollering Creek” who is just awful. He seems well off and good at first, but literally sucks when he gets to Texas
Juan Pedro
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Cleofilas’ neighbor who has telenovelas going on in which Cleofilas peers through the window to watch. She claims to be widowed but nobody is sure where he husband went
Soledad
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Independent woman who drives a truck. She transports Cleofilas and Juan Pedrito to San Antonio to get away from Juan Pedro
Felices
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Cleofilas’ neighbor who is widowed and burns too much incense. She lost both of her sons in the war and her husband died of grief
Dolores
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What are the names of Imaculee’s parents
Rose and Leonard