PTQ: Lit Flashcards
In Melt, the animal which is pointed out as a symbol of adaptability is the…
arctic fox
In “Melt”, where is bullying demonstrated?
with the girls at Bea’s school and the men from her dad’s corporation
In “Melt”, when the sun does not set for 24 hours, Bea and Yutu will know that they have gone into
the Arctic circle
In “Melt”, Bea crash lands the airplane near Yutu’s hut because
it ran out of fuel
In “Melt”, Miki gives the teens an extra pair of mittens for their journey because
the extra is a gift to leave in any cabin they stay in
In “Melt”, why does Bea’s Dad bring Bea with him on his flight north?
because men in his company threatened her
In “Melt”, Bea’s dad is opposed to oil drilling in the Arctic because a spill could be caused by
storms and sea ice
In “Melt”, in order to navigate the way home after they meet at the hut, Bea and Yutu
look at windblown snow drifts, follow the coastline, and observe rock piles
In “Melt”, the lines, “Wind pushes against my nose and cheeks. It sneaks beneath the fur on my hood.” contain what figurative language?
personification
The Arctic region contains about thirteen percent of the world’s
undiscovered oil
In “To Build a Fire” by Jack London, the dog instinctively senses that the temperature is much lower than
50 degrees below zero, but the man does not. This is an example of
dramatic irony
Ermias Kebreab suggests that a solution to the production of methane by cows is to
feed seaweed to cows
Shubhendu Sharma suggests using our backyards to create
tiny forests
Shishmaref, Alaska is feeling threatened by
flooding from ice melt
In Sir David Attenborough’s speech, he states that an action we MUST take is
recapturing carbon
In “The Last Snowman,” the line “singular and abominable” is
a comment on the ugly effects of global warming and a reference to Himalayan mythology
In “Some Effects of Global Warming in Lackawanna County,” the phrases “buds pop” and “ice cracks” are
examples of what figurative language?
onomatopoeia and kinesthetic imagery
In “Once the World Was Perfect,” the tone of the poem shifts when someone
shares
In “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier,” the allusion to the Titanic is primarily a reminder that the
situation of global warming is
gigantic
In “The Flavours We’ll Lose,” the mention of grapes signals an environmental change because they
come from Scandinavia
In “Woodland,” the narrator thinks that, if her brother had lived, he might have
communicated with animals
In “To Build a Fire,” the dog thinks of men primarily as
providers
In “To Build a Fire,” the man’s thought that “Any man who was a man could travel alone.” is an example of
situational irony
In “To Build a Fire,” the man curses the dog because it
is warm and secure in its natural coat
