Unit 7 Lesson 6: Historical Context

Question 1

direct characterization

Answer 1

a description of a character made by the narrator or another character

Question 2

historical context

Answer 2

the social, political, economic, and cultural conditions that characterize a specific time and place

Question 2

idiom

Answer 2

a widely used and understood expression that has a figurative meaning that is different for the literal meaning of the individual words

Question 2

figurative language

Answer 2

a way of expressing information in nonliteral ways using figures of speech

Question 2

indirect characterization

Answer 2

the portrayal of a character through the character’s thoughts, words, actions, and appearance

Question 3

metaphor

Answer 3

a figure of speech that compares two unlike things by saying something is something else

Question 4

personification

Answer 4

giving human characteristics to animals, inanimate objects, ideas, or forces of nature

Question 5

simile

Answer 5

a figure of speech that compares two unlike things by saying something is like something else

Question 6

social values

Answer 6

the general ideas, principles, and cultural beliefs that govern behavior in a society

Question 7

theme

Answer 7

a central, unifying idea an author is trying to convey in a piece of literature

Question 8

stream of consciousness

Answer 8

a literary device that tries to capture the natural flow of a character’s thought process in a realistic way, including sensory perceptions and incomplete ideas