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The F in FANBOYS stands for...
For
Who is the main "villain" in Merchant of Venice?
Shylock
Who wrote the novel?
Harper Lee
Alliteration.
Plot
A comma between two independent clauses gives us a...
Comma splice OR run on sentence
Who is Bassanio in love with?
Portia
What is the name of the narrator?
Scout, or Scout Finch
What literary device gives human qualities to non human things?
Personification.
Lamb to the Slaughter
A complete sentence must have a... and...
Subject and a verb, and express a complete thought
The quality of mercy is not...
strained.
What is the name of the narrator's older brother?
Jem, or Jeremy
What literary device is used in this Hamilton line? "We are a powder keg about to explode"
Metaphor
The short story we read about imagination was called...
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
What is the other name for FANBOYS?
Coordinating conjunctions
Jessica falls in love with...
Lorenzo.
What does Scout call her father?
Atticus
talk
Human vs human is an example of...
What is the official name of the sentence with two independent clauses joined by a comma and a FANBOYS?
A compound sentence.
In the end, how many ships does Antonio lose?
Zero.
What is the name of the town where the story takes place?
Maycomb, Alabama
"Tell the truth, but tell it ____" is a famous Emily Dickinson poem that plays with slant rhyme.
slant
What is the type of short story that takes place in less than a few hundred words called?
A flash fiction