The Circle

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

The Circle & Devices Review

Today

-Review of the Circle

-Circle vs. Google

-Literary devices review

Homework: Make sure you have finished all Circle questions, parts 1-6. 

From which perspective/point of view is the story told?

1. First person
2. Second person
3. Third person

What is the main message of this story and why do you think so?

"The Circle is about abuse of power. That’s one of the primary themes, at least. All the President’s Men is also about abuse of power, but that doesn’t make it an anti-government story. So I hope people see The Circle for what it is, which is a cautionary tale for how a monopolistic control over digital information, paired with a wholesale indifference to privacy, could lead to some very bad outcomes." - Dave Eggers

Would you rather have more privacy and less security or more security and less privacy.

More Privacy

More Security

The Circle vs. Google

- The Circle was written in 2013

- Now, years later, companies like Google or Apple look a lot like the Circle

- You can use your Gmail account to log into everything and ApplePay to pay

What are some similarities between Google and the Circle?

Literary terms and devices you need to know

-Rhyme

-Context & meaning

-Characters & point of view

-Figurative language 

(all from p. 59-62)

What is this an example of? ''The truck toppled over treacherously.''

1. Alliteration
2. Assonance
3. End rhyme
4. Elegy

What is a poem called that has no regular rhyme scheme?

1. Elegy
2. Free verse
3. Enjambment
4. Assonance

What is it called when a line of poetry runs into the next line without punctuation.

1. Elegy
2. Alliteration
3. Assonance
4. Enjambment

What is a theme?

1. Main message or topic of a text
2. What happens in the text
3. The context of the text
4. The circumstances of the author

What are characters called who don't change during the story/ are one-dimensional?

1. Antagonist
2. Protagonist
3. Anti-hero
4. Flat character

What is this an example of? ''The iPhone beckoned me from across the store.''

1. Personification
2. Imagery
3. Metaphor
4. Simile

What is this an example of? ''Class is taking forever.''

1. Metaphor
2. Simile
3. Hyperbole
4. Irony

What is this an example of? ''She is an angel.''

1. Metaphor
2. Simile
3. Irony
4. Symbol

What is this an example of? ''She looks like an angel.''

1. Metaphor
2. Simile
3. Irony
4. Symbol

What kind of irony is this? ''Wearing a 'Buy America' t-shirt that was made in China.''

1. Verbal irony
2. Situational irony
3. Dramatic irony

What kind of irony is this? ''Saying that the weather is 'great' when it is raining outside.''

1. Verbal irony
2. Situational irony
3. Dramatic irony

What kind of tone does this have? ''Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a volume of forgotten lore.''

1. Elated
2. Digusted
3. Curious
4. Gloomy