MAUS Vocab 1

What is Cataracts

• A struggle between opposing forces/Clash between people

• Charming or handsome young Jewish man

• Clouding of the lens in the eye (causes blurry or no vision)

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CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

What is Sheik

• A struggle between opposing forces/Clash between people

• Charming or handsome young Jewish man

• A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted for hidden meaning (moral or political).

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is Characterization

• A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted for hidden meaning (moral or political).

• A struggle between opposing forces/Clash between people

• The way an author or an actor describes a character

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is Conflict

• A struggle between opposing forces/Clash between people

• Charming or handsome young Jewish man

• The way an author or an actor describes a character

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is Allegory

• Clouding of the lens in the eye (causes blurry or no vision

• The way an author or an actor describes a character

• A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted for hidden meaning (moral or political)

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is Allusion?

Pick the best definition and example

• refers to a person, place, or thing that the author expects everyone to understand.

  Example: Sally had a smile rivaled by the Mona Lisa

• a figure of speech that compares two things, usually stating one is another
  
  Example: The exam was a piece of cake!

• a story within a story
  
  example: from the novel is Art telling his dad's story while also documenting his journey as an adult.

  Done

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is a metaphor?

Pick the best definition and example!

• a figure of speech that compares two things, usually stating one is another
  
  Example: The exam was a piece of cake!

• The leading or main character in a story/movie

• refers to a person, place, thing, event...etc that the author expects everyone to understand.
  
  Ex: Sally had a smile only rivaled by the Mona Lisa.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is imagery when referring to reading?

• a story within a story

• when a text is visually descriptive (can paint a picture of the scene) or is descriptive with its figurative language (think metaphors, similes)

• figure of speech that compares two things, usually stating one is another

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is a frame narrative?

Pick the best definition and example!

• refers to a person, place, thing, event...etc that the author expects everyone to understand.

  He was like Rudolph Valentino From "The Sheik"

• a text is visually descriptive (can paint a picture of the scene)

• a story within a story
  
  An example from the novel is Art telling his dad's story while also documenting his journey as an adult.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Choose the best definition for:

Communism

• Extremely high control of the state and bans opposition of other parties.

• Derived from Marx, all property will be publicly owned, each person works for their abilities and is paid

• A hospital for the treatment of chronic and recurring illnesses

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5