Shakespeare
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Literary Terms
100

“Thou art” translates to what in modern English

You are

100

What do firemen do in this novel?

burn books

100

Why doesn’t Elizabeth like her own child

she's fat, not pretty

100

What is paraphrasing?

Condensing a text into your own words

100

What is imagery?

5 senses, mental picture

200

Who kills Macbeth?

Macduff

200

Which character first questions Guy Montag in the novel?

Clarisse

200

Why does the Terrible Awful have to be put in the book?

insurance

200

What is the purpose of a counterclaim?

Give credit to other side, show yours is better

200

Give an example of a metaphor

life is a highway

300

What happens to Lady Macbeth

Suicide

300

What creature is sent after those who don’t conform?

mechanical hound

300

What does the Home Health Sanitation Initiative want to achieve?

separate bathrooms just for the help

300

Why must you cite your sources?

To give credit to the person whose work you are borrowing

300

Repeating the beginning sounds in a line of text is

alliteration

400

What three titles does Macbeth hold after the first Weird Sisters’ prophecy?

Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, King hereafter

400

What does Guy discover in the woods at the end of the book?

people who had memorized books

400

What first made Aibileen begin to resent segregation?

Her son's death

400

If a text has no author, what should go inside the parenthesis in an in-text citation?

Title of the work

400

What is a cacophony?

sounds that don't go together layered on top of each other

500

What are the two physical impossibilities that must happen for Macbeth to be defeated?

Macbeth can't be defeated until Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane

No man of woman born can kill Macbeth 

500

How do you know Guy has been curious about books for a long time?

He had collected and hidden 20 or so in his house

500

What is wrong with Celia Foote?

She has miscarriages, she cannot have children

500

What would the in-text citation be for:    Jones, Lawrence. “Watering Stones: The Science of Absorption.” Science Today, vol. 3 issue 1 page 245+. http://science.orp/water-stones_ac&5fsrte. Accessed May 3, 2006.

(Jones 245)

500

“Less is more” is an example of

paradox

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