Literary Techniques & Vocabulary "Games at Twilight"

Where is "Games at Twilight" set?

• Britain

• Argentina

• India

• Pakistan

The protagonist of this story is:

• Raghu

• Ravi

• Mira

• Ma

The character antagonist of this story is:

• Raghu

• Ravi

• Mira

• Ma

The point of view for this story is:

• first person

• third person

• omniscient

• third person limited omniscient

"they burst out like seeds from a crackling, overripe pod into the veranda"

• simile

• metaphor

• analogy

• juxtaposition

From the parrots "battle formation" to "unconquered" to "like the looting of a poor, ruined, and conquered city" all this creates:

• a motif of war / battle

• an aggressive tone

• a motif of fighting

• ominous mood of defeat

"Dark and depressing mortuary" to "muffled smell, as of graves" to "sepulchral" to "this funeral game" all support the:

• theme of death, the need to be remembered

• motif of death

• theme of life, the power and vitality of being fully alive

• theme of insignificance - the power belonging, the pain when you do not

"The trees and bushes around them stood inky and spulchral, spilling long shadows across them" - this is after he bursts out of the tomb-like shed. Sepulchral meaning (from context):

• of church / cathedrals

• of graves / tombs

• relating to death

• relating to specters / ghosts

Public shame or disgrace - which vocabulary word does this definition most closely fit?

• ignominy

• infamy

• notoriety

• humiliation

Sad or dismal sounding, funereal- which vocabulary word does this definition most closely fit?

• lugubrious

• melancholy

• arid

• superciliously