A is for
Literary devices and graphic novel techniques
They called them what??
Random details
Helpers and mentors
Mama stuff
100
Writing a gist statement, drawing symbols, and paraphrasing are all examples of doing this when you read.
annotations/annotating
100
"She hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear," is an example of...
simile
100
He was called a "rat-catcher" because he tended to fight and scratch with a sword.
Tybalt
100
What food did Trevor Noah say that he and his family "obliterated" to the point that archaeologists wouldn't have any bones to study?
chicken
100
He told Romeo that he should slow things down and then proceeded to marry him and Juliet.
Friar Lawrence
100
She died of grief.
Lady Montague
200
Marjane's grandma helped flush this down the toilet so the police wouldn't catch them.
alcohol
200
Trevor Noah says about his mom, "She was a hybrid car before hybrid cars came out." This is an example of:
metaphor
200
Trevor Noah was friends with a young man with this shocking name, proof that education in South Africa, was lacking.
Hitler
200
Sasha had many unusual interests. What was one of them? (not based on how they dressed)
games, transit maps, Russian culture and language, punk music
(must get one)
200
Who helped Starr with her case and encouraged her to find her voice?
Ms. Ofrah
200
Whose mom dyed her hair after being photographed during a protest?
Marjane
300
Townships, homelands, passbooks, and segregation were control tactics during
apartheid
300
A Shakespearean sonnet has 10 syllables with alternating emphasis. This is called...
iambic pentameter
300
Not Dori's friend, but Sasha's, who was afraid to visit them in the hospital.
Nemo
300
In Persepolis, what were boys given to encourage them to be martyrs for the war?
gold keys
300
Who helped Richard to navigate school and life in general in The 57 Bus?
Ms. Kaprice
300
In The Paper Menagerie, his dad ordered her from what....
a catalogue/the mail/a magazine
400
Sasha defined themselves as nonbinary (not male or female) and _________, not having sexual desire.
asexual
400
Trevor Noah says about his mom, "She was a hybrid car before hybrid cars came out." This is an example of:
metaphor
400
1, 2, 3...What is the name of Starr's younger brother?
Seven
400
In Persepolis, Siamak flees the country by hiding in this very unusual way.
under sheep
400
Daily Double
In Persepolis, Uncle_____was a helper and mentor to Marjane.
Anoosh
400
Mother to Kenya.
Iesha
500
Sampson bites his thumb at this servant early in Romeo and Juliet.
Abram or Abraham
500
This line is an example of:
Within the infant rind of this weak flower
Poison hath residence-and medicine power (2.3)
Hint: Not rhyme
Possible answers: either accepted
paradox, foreshadowing
500
In "The Paper Menagerie," what did the narrator name Laohu?
an origami tiger (You have to get both parts of the answer)
500
What was Starr and Chris's favorite t.v. show?
Hint: We watched an episode in class.
Fresh Prince or Fresh Prince of Bel Air
500
Trevor Noah's mom.
Hint: starts with "P"
Patricia