Literature: The Night Face Up

What are two settings of the short story The Night Face Up? (Select the best TWO)

• Modern Mexico City

• Ancient Ruins

• Aztec Ritual

• Forest

The modern city setting represents:

• a world of chaos, fear, and instinct

• a world seemingly full of order and civilisation

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What does the protagonist realize towards the end of the story?

• Nurses and doctors are very caring people

• Hospital visit was the dream while the Aztec ritual was the reality

• He has complete control of his life

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What are the TWO themes of the story?

• dream vs reality

• accidents vs hospitals

• Aztecs vs Motecas

• civilisation vs savagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What war is taking place in the Aztec World?

• War of death

• War of blossom

• War of flowers

• War of acolytes

"Now sleep began to take over again, to pull

him slowly down"

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"The creaking of the wooden latches jolted him like a

whip"

• Understatement

• Proverb

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What makes the TONE seem comforting and safe in the hospital plot while dangerous and foreboding in the manhunt?

• Use of similes and metaphors

• Parallel plots

• Difference in smells

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What do the two plots have in common? (select two)

• The protagonist is lying on his back

• The protagonist is sacrificed

• Sense of fear and concern hangs over all of the events

• Other people control what happens to the protagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What do you learn about the character at the end of the story?

• He dies at the hospital

• He lives in the Aztec times and is going to be killed

• He keeps lying face up on the hospital bed in Mexico

• He keeps lying face up on the sacrificial altar

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3