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Poems, short stories, newspaper/magazine articles, tv episodes, and book chapters need what two things?
They need to be capitalized.
They are surrounded by quotation marks.
Which of the following stories was told from the first person point of view: “The Necklace,” “A Retrieved Reformation,” “A Monkey’s Paw,” “The Most Dangerous Game,” or “The Tell-Tale Heart”?
Only “The Tell-Tale Heart” was told in the first person point of view.
What surprising thing did Louie do five years after his release when he went back to see all the Japanese guards?
Louie forgave all the prison guards and hugged them.
What tells how the actors in a drama should look, move, and/or speak?
Stage directions tell how actors should look, move, or speak.
Which character(s) of the Greasers is a flat character?
Two-Bit and Steve are flat characters.
If you combine two sentences without the words “and,” “but,” or “or,” what do you need to include.
To combine two sentences, a semicolon (;) is required.
Which of the following stories contain a man versus self conflict: “A Retrieved Reformation,” “The Necklace,” “A Monkey’s Paw,” “The Most Dangerous Game,” or “The Tell-Tale Heart”?
All of those stories contain a man versus self conflict.
What were the five character traits we used to describe Louie Zamperini?
The five character traits used to describe Louie were: resilient, optimistic, generous, smart/quick-thinking, and determined to rebel.
The play starts at the end of the war in 1945, and then in the next scene, it is in the middle of the war in 1942. What literary technique is that?
The literary technique is a flashback.
What makes the Greasers’ world not that different from the Socs’ world?
The sunset was the same in both the Greasers’ and Socs’ world.
What needs to be done to dates within a sentence?
Dates need to be set off from the rest of the sentence with a comma.
Give an example of irony in “A Retrieved Reformation,” “The Monkey’s Paw,” or “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
When Jimmy, a bank robber, fell in love with Annabel, a banker’s daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. White, who loved their son Herbert, wished him dead again.
After taking careful precautions to hide the body of the old man, the narrator confesses the crime.
Give one example of how Louie or the other prisoners resisted being made invisible by the guards.
Answers vary, but a possible choice includes:
The captives at Ofuna P.O.W. camp were not allowed to communicate with each other but developed hand signs and other ways to sneak messages through the camp.
Give two life lessons that can be taken from The Diary of Anne Frank.
Answers vary, but possible choices include:
There’s always good in the world.
People should speak up for what they believe in.
Positivity can help a person through rough times.
What literary element is being used when Ponyboy describes Johnny as looking like a candle as he was dying?
It was a simile when Ponyboy describes Johnny as looking like a candle as he was dying.
What’s the difference between using the words “between” and “among”?
“Between” is used to compare two things only.
“Among” is used to compare three or more things.
Give an example and explain an example of a symbol in the following stories: “A Retrieved Reformation,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” or “The Necklace.”
The rose symbolizes Jimmy’s love for Annabel.
The phoenix symbolizes Jimmy becoming a new man.
The beating heart symbolizes the narrator’s guilt.
The necklace symbolizes honesty.
Give two examples of how the Japanese guards dehumanized Louie and/or others to make them literally invisible.
Answers vary, but possible choices include:
Louie was thrown into the jail cell by himself.
Louie was in the hold of the ship that brought him to Execution Island.
How did Mr. Frank change from when they first went into hiding until the end of the play?
Mr. Frank was, at first, optimistic and positive. At the end of the play, he became bitter and didn’t believe that people were good at heart.
What did Johnny mean when he told Ponyboy to stay gold?
Johnny meant that Ponyboy should stay young and innocent.
What two things need to be in a sentence if you start it with “because”?
It needs to be followed by the effect.
The effect needs to be separated from the cause with a comma.
Name two ways the author creates a suspenseful mood in either of the following stories: “The Tell-Tale Heart” or “The Monkey’s Paw.”
The suggestion that the narrator is mad, the repetition of words, the vivid vocabulary, and the use of punctuation contribute to the suspenseful mood in “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
The use of foreshadowing, the eerie vocabulary, and the rainy, desolate setting contribute to the suspenseful mood in “The Monkey’s Paw.”
Give two examples of how the Japanese guards dehumanized Louie and/or others to make them figuratively invisible.
Answers vary, but possible choices include:
The Japanese guards would poke him with a stick.
The Japanese submariners threw rocks and sticks and spat at Louie and Phil.
The Japanese used them as lab rats for medical experiments.
The guards made Louie sing and dance.
What does the following quote tell the reader about Anne Frank: “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart”?
This quote shows that Anne is optimistic and forgiving.
What does Soda mean when he says, “If you don’t have anything, you end up like Dallas… and I don’t mean dead either. I mean like he was before. And that’s worse than dead.”
Answers vary, but possible choices include:
Dally sort of deserved to die.
Dally didn’t see any value to life.
Dally knew he was going to die young.
Dally wanted to die all along.