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1
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Slumdog has three plot lines: the police interrogation, the game show, and Jamal’s life. Two of theses plot lines are revealed by flashback. Which plot line is not told using flashback?

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The police interrogation

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The prophets hair: describe the part of srinagar where sheikh sin lives

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Sheikh sin lives in a gully as dark as ink in a poor alleyway

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Describe the house owned by hashim

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Hashim’s home was spacious lake side in the wealthy area

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What does huma want from sheikh sin

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Huma wants sheikh sin to steal the prophets hair

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Shikara

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A house boat

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Huma

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Beautiful,wealthy,confident,defiant,strong

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Atta

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Young,man,dumb,rich

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Sheikh sin

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Immoral,gambler,smart,sick,dark

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Sheikh sins wife

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Blind in the beginning

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Hashim

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Wealthy,rude,harsh

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Hashim’s wife

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Meal,mild

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What is the relic? Why is it so valuable?

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It is the hair of the prophet Muhammad and it is a treasure and he wanted it because he is a collector

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What moment in your opinion is the climax of the story?

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When atta said “thief,thief,thief”

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What happens to sheikh sins sons and wife

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They are healed

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What happens to Hashim’s family?

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All die but the mother and she goes insane

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Which character could be called a religious fundamentalist

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The father

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Flashback

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The scene in a movie,novel set in a time earlier than the main story

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In media res

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Latin term that means “in the midst of thing” does not start at beginning

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Theme

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The subject of the talk, a piece of writing a persons thoughts or an exhibition

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Foreshadow

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A warning or indication of a future event

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Conflict

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Involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and antagonist

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Climax

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The moment of highest tension. A story is typically driving towards this moment

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Denouement

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Outcome or conclusion. It is sometimes called the resolution. Denouement means the unraveling of the knot

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Symbol

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A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract

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Suspense

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A pleasurable anxiety we feel that heightens our attention

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Motif

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Recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story

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Allusion

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An implied or indirect reference to a person,event or thing to a part of another text

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Antagonist

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A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something

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Protagonist

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The leading character or one of the major characters.

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Epiphany

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The point in a work of literature where a character has a sudden insight or realization that changes his or her understanding.

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Exposition is what?

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Opening of the story

32
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How is the theme of money and wealth introduced?

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Salim throwing money in the bathtub

33
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What is the first clue that the setting of the story of India?

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When the host introduces introduces Jamal as being from Mumbai

34
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How is the theme of Fate introduced ?

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In the beginning, When one of choices for a question is d. It is written

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What is the opening crisis

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Jamal is being tortured

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Foreshadowing is what?

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A hint regarding what might come next

37
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How does the money function as foreshadowing?

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When your life is centered around money, it leads to unhappiness and sometimes death.

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Media res means?

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“In midst of a thing” a story that begins in media res does not begin at the beginning.

39
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Slum Dog starts in the middle of what?

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Interrogation

40
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Who are three antagonists (bad guys) in Slumdog?

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Jared, gameshow host, Salim

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The climax is what?

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The moment of highest tension, story drives toward this moment

42
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What is the climax of Slumdog?

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When Latika answers the phone, he wins, and Salim dies simultaneously

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The denouement is what?

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Outcome or conclusion “unraveling of the knot” (French)

44
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Denouement in Slumdog?

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When Jamal gets Latika and Javed dies

45
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Suspense is what ?

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Pleasure able anxiety we feel that heightens pur attention.

46
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One scene you felt suspense?

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When Jamal had to answer the 20 million dollar question

47
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Mark of the beast

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Three Englishmen (Strickland, fleece, and Richard Kipling) are out drinking on New Year’s Eve, as they are walking they come to a Hindu temple with a statue of HANUMAN (the monkey god). FLEETE one of the drunker men put out his cigar on the statue and began to deface it. SILVERMAN, a leaper priest bites FLEETE. The Englishman go home where the horses are afraid of Fleete, who is acting very strange, the BITE changed colors, he eats RAW pork, and HOWLS (RABIES) The other men kidnap SILVERMAN and force him to reverse the spell. FLEETE returns to normal.

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Epiphany is what?

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Popular theme in short stories

Time of: insight, discovery, revelation

49
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What epiphany does Salim have at the end of the story?

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Money is nothing. “God is great”

50
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Motif is what?

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Reoccurring idea, theme.

51
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Example of motif?

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Latika wears yellow constantly which represents wealth

Where she wears it: the end kiss, when she is being chased by Salim at the train station, and when she is in the dump

52
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At one point in the story it seems to rewind (Latika is going backwards) what do you think is the point of this rewind/flashback ?

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To remind her of everything they have gone through together, a way of undoing. It shows all the struggles she went through and proves it was worth it.

53
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What denomination does Salim fill the tub with ?

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1000 rupee

54
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Where has 1000 rupee been mentioned?

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Jamal was asked a question about rupee

55
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Who is on the 1000 rupee?

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Ghandi

56
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What is an example showing the Salim will do anything for money?

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He kills Javed

57
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Cite an example showing Jamal doesn’t care about money?

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When he gives 100 dollar bill to the girl who’s eyes got burned

58
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Yellow represents wealth & Latika wears yellow all the time. Therefore what is Jamal’s definition of wealth?

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Love

59
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What phrases in the story show the importance of fate ?

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It is written

60
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What is a theme of the movie?

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Money isn’t everything, love is everything. Struggle happens for a reason.

61
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Brahma story

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Brahma is a story about the Hindu god, the creator. It addresses the idea that God is in all things and uses a lot of paradoxes (shadow and sunlight are the same) to show this

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Gunga din

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About an Indian boy who carried the water for a British soldier (Richard Kipling). In the story, the soldier gets shot and is “mad with thirst” gunga din came and gave him water that was slimy and green. Gunga din then carried the man away and got shot, but got Richard to the tent and told him he hoped he enjoyed his drink. Richard goes on to say gunga din will give him drink in heaven and ends with he is a better man than I, gunga din.

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Allegory

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Extended metaphor. . First, there’s the surface of the story. You know, the characters and plot and all that obvious stuff. Then there’s the symbolic level, or the deeper meaning that all the jazz on the surface represents.

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