Post A #1 3rd Quarter Outside Reading

Vocab

1. Xenology: the scientific study of extraterrestrials, esp. their biology. (3). n
2. Hegemon: a person, nation, etc., that has or exercises hegemony. (17). n
   
3. Hegemony (to clarify above word): leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation. n

Figurative Language

1. Personification: "Don't sit on Chair! It's her time of month again" (22). This is an example of personification because obviously a chair cannot have a period, and since an inanimate object is being given human characteristics, it is personification.
2. Simile: "Piggies are like animals! How could they murder one of their own kind?" (27). This is a simile because it is comparing piggies and animals using the word like.
3. Metaphor: "Marcao is a dog. He is a big brutish abusive husband" (45). This is an example of a metaphor because Marcao is not really a dog, but he is described as one.

Quote

1. "His students had no idea that their speaker for the dead, who was surely no older than thirty-five, had very clear memories of events 3000 years before, that in fact those events seemed scarcely twenty years ago to him, only half his lifetime" (37). This quote is significant because it shows how special Ender really is. He is 3000 years old, and nobody even knows it!

Theme

1. The current theme in the novel is the piggies. They are the only known alien race to be alive after the bugger xenocide.