Grammar
This is a person, place or thing.
What is a Noun?
These are the beings that inhabit the book and who carry out the action in it.
Who are the characters?
This is what Holden Caulfield tells his sister, Phoebe, he wants to be, and it means he wants to do this.
What is a Catcher in the Rye, which means he wants to help save kids?
This is when a person makes a comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
The n-word is the most offensive example of this type of word.
What is a slur?
The words “a,” “an,” and “the” are the only 3 examples of this type of word in English.
This is the time and place of a book.
What is the setting?
Myrtle Wilson is killed when this person hits her with this.
Who is Daisy Buchanan in Gatsby's car/
This is the repetition of beginning sounds of words, as in “he held her heart in his hand.”
What is alliteration?
This is a title or name which often describes them in some way, and sometimes it has a negative connotation.
What is an epithet?
This is the person or thing that receives the action in a sentence.
What is the object of the sentence?
This is when an object or a person stands for an idea or concept.
What is a symbol?
Frederick Douglass wins thinks about his freedom when he sees these on Chesapeake Bay.
What are sailing ships?
This is a reference in one piece of art to another piece of art.
What is an allusion?
This is when a person is bitter &/or insincere (and often humorous).
What is cynical?
This type of sentence connects two independent clauses using a coordinating conjunction.
This is the narrator’s position in relation to the story being told.
What is point of view?
This is how Huck dresses to go back to St. Petersburg to gather information while he and Jim are still on the island.
What is in girls' clothes?
is is a point by point comparison of two unlike things.
What is an analogy?
This is a recurrent & nearly universal pattern or character in literature & myth.
What is an archetype?
If a sentence connects to clauses and makes one dependent on the other it must use this kind of conjunction.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
This is when the protagonist’s personality is implied through her actions.
What is Indirect Characterization?
In his poem, “I, Too,” this poetic master of the Harlem Renaissance both agrees with Whitman’s view of America and challenges it.
Who is Langston Hughes?
“Kick the bucket,” is an example of this kind of phrase which lessens the blow of the meaning of a concept--in this case, death.
What is a euphemism?
This is a question that can’t be answered because possible answers are contradictory.
What is a paradox?