Vocabulary
This word means cheerful and merry, often describing a happy mood or event.
What is jocund?
This is the first title Macbeth holds in the play.
What is Thane of Glamis?
This is the primary setting of Jason Reynolds' novel Long Way Down.
What is an elevator?
This young Latina girl is the narrator and protagonist of The House on Mango Street.
Who is Esperanza?
This music genre, characterized by rhythmic speech and beats, originated in the Bronx in the 1970s.
What is hip-hop?
This adjective describes something serious or solemn, often related to death or sadness.
What is grave?
After murdering King Duncan, Macbeth kills these two individuals in a fit of rage.
Who are the king’s guards?
Will Holloman takes this item from his brother's drawer to avenge Shawn's death.
What is a gun?
Esperanza’s younger sister, who often embarrasses her by speaking without understanding.
Who is Nenny?
In soccer, this is the term for when a player scores three goals in a single game.
What is a hat trick?
To trick or charm someone, sometimes in a deceptive way, is to do this.
What is beguile?
She claims she cannot kill King Duncan herself because he resembles this person.
Who is her father?
This young girl, who was accidentally shot and killed when she was eight, appears to Will in the elevator.
Who is Dani?
This boy is Esperanza’s friend who lives in a cluttered house and dreams of flying away like a balloon tied to an anchor.
Who is Meme Ortiz?
This element, atomic number 79, is the most malleable and ductile metal.
What is gold?
This word describes behavior or appearance that is inappropriate or doesn’t suit the situation.
What is unbecoming?
This apparition shown to Macbeth symbolizes that no man born of a woman will harm him.
What is the bloody child?
These are the three unspoken codes that guide behavior in Will's neighborhood.
What are: Don't cry, Don't snitch, Get revenge?
This character escapes her father's strict control by marrying young, but her new life leaves her even more confined — sitting by the window while her husband won’t let her talk to anyone.
Who is Sally?
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is set in this U.S. state.
What is Alabama?
This term means absolute truth or reality, especially facts that cannot be disputed.
What is verity?
Upon hearing of his wife's death, Macbeth delivers this famous soliloquy, reflecting on the futility of life:
**"Life's but a walking ______, a poor ______, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an ______, full of sound and ______, Signifying ______."
What are shadow, player, idiot, fury, and nothing?
At the end of the novel, Will begins to break the cycle of violence by doing this with his brother's ghost.
What is crying?
The novel subtly critiques this societal problem through its depiction of the neighborhood’s economic hardships and limited opportunities for its residents.
What is poverty and systemic inequality?
This law, formulated by Isaac Newton, explains the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration.
What is Newton’s Second Law of Motion?