Taste Of Honey- Definitions

Question 1

What is social class?

Answer 1

A person’s rank, position or status in society depending on their wealth and background.

Question 2

What is injustice?

Answer 2

To be treated in a way that is unfair or immoral. Something that is not morally right.

Question 3

What is an outsider?

Answer 3

A person who does not belong or fit in a particular place or group.

Question 4

What is a benefactor?

Answer 4

A person who helps and financially supports someone in need; a sponsor.

Question 5

What is dependent?

Answer 5

A person who requires help and financial support in order to survive. A person who is unable to take care of themselves.

Question 6

What is a turning point?

Answer 6

An important moment or event that changes the characters life or personality.

Question 7

What is Bildungsroman?

Answer 7

A genre telling the story of a child growing into an adult. They develop morally and spiritually on their journey. A coming of age story.

Question 8

What is ambiguous?

Answer 8

When someone or something is unclear, uncertain or has more than one meaning it interpretation.

Question 9

What is forebode or foreboding?

Answer 9

A feeling that something bad or sinister will happen.

Question 10

What is foreshadow or foreshadowing?

Answer 10

A clue, hint or warning at what will happen in the future.

Question 11

What is personification or personify?

Answer 11

To describe something that is non-human with human features.

Question 12

What is Pathetic fallacy?

Answer 12

The personification of the weather to create foreboding.

Question 13

What is dramatic?

Answer 13

An exciting, emotional or unexpected event.

Question 14

What is suspense?

Answer 14

Feeling excited or anxious uncertainty about what might happen next.

Question 15

What is a theme?

Answer 15

A concept or idea in the novel.

Question 16

What is a motif?

Answer 16

An image, idea or symbol that appears throughout a story.

Question 17

What is foil?

Answer 17

A character who contrasts the main character and shows opposite or better qualities. The character is the antithesis or direct opposite of the main protagonist.

Question 18

What is an antagonist?

Answer 18

The opponent, rival or enemy to the main protagonist.

Question 19

What is dramatic irony?

Answer 19

The reader or audience knows something the character doesn’t.

Question 20

What is social inequality?

Answer 20

A belief or idea that people have unequal access to resources, opportunities and treatment, such as healthcare, education, pay because of their age, race, class, gender, etc;

Question 21

What is social responsibility?

Answer 21

To act and behave for the good of wider society.

Question 22

What is irony?

Answer 22

The opposite of what was intended or expected and has a humorous or sarcastic effect.

Question 23

What is a plot device?

Answer 23

Something or someone that moves the story forward.