The Great Gatsby
Who is Nick Carroway?
Who is Macbeth?
This character is wrongly convicted of murdering his wife and her lover.
Who is Andy Dufresne?
This is the repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words, especially at the ends of lines in poems.
What is rhyme?
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What is rhyme scheme?
This is a comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
Gatsby throws lavish parties hoping to attract this woman, his lost love.
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
These three mysterious figures prophesize Macbeth's rise to power.
Who are the Weird Sisters?
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Who are the Three Witches?
This inmate, known for "knowing how to get things," becomes Andy's closest friend.
Who is Ellis "Red" Redding?
This 14-line poem, often written in iambic pentameter, was a favorite form of Shakespeare.
What is a sonnet?
This figure of speech gives human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
This symbol represents Gatsby's hopes and dreams, especially for Daisy.
What is the green light?
Lady Macbeth famously tries to wash this imaginary substance from her hands.
What is blood?
Andy escapes from Shawshank by crawling through this.
What is a sewage pipe?
This term refers to descriptive language that appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
This term describes when the audience knows something that the characters do not. Famously seen in Romeo and Juliet.
George Wilson kills Gatsby because he believes Gatsby was driving this colour of car.
What is yellow?
This character, born by Caesarean section, ultimately defeats Macbeth
Who is Macduff?
Andy uses a rock hammer and this object to conceal the tunnel he digs in his cell wall.
What is a poster?
This term describes a line of poetry that continues without a pause beyond the end of a line or stanza.
What is enjambment?
This device involves a reference to a well-known person, event, or work of art, often without explanation.
This historical event, subtly referenced in Gatsby’s backstory involving Meyer Wolfsheim, helped shape the novel’s themes of corruption and the illusion of success.
What is the 1919 World Series?
In Act 4, Macbeth visits the witches and receives this second set of three apparitions, one of which tells him to beware Macduff. Which apparition said this?
What is a severed head?
or
What is a floating head?
Andy launders money for Warden Norton using this fictional alias.
Who is Randall Stephens?
This poetic meter, famously used by Shakespeare, consists of five metrical feet per line, each made up of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic pentameter?
This literary device uses contradiction to reveal a deeper truth, such as “less is more.”
What is a paradox?