SAT Vocab
(n.) determination, persistence
What is tenacity?
The following depicts this literary device. Identify the device & the work: "You have no interest in any Mediator, and nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you have done, nothing that you can do"
What is repetition & "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
Where the boy and the father are traveling to.
The war the soldiers are fighting in Crane's "Episode of War."
What is the Civil War?
Don't click on that hyperlink! You could become a victim of this OG meme, a bait-&-switch prank involving 80s singer Rick Astley.
What is a Rick Roll?
(n) the lowest point; time of greatest depression
What is nadir?
The hills and fertile landscape in the setting of this text represents of new life, pregnancy, & permanence. Also identify the device.
What is "Hills Like White Elephants" & symbolism?
This object is the man's/father's most important means of protection as he and the boy travel.
What is a pistol/gun?
In "Hills Like White Elephants," the characters are using this form of transportation.
What is the train?
One of 2023's meme-iest memes was a photo of this "King and Queens" star mischievously shrugging and smirking
Who is Kevin James?
(adj) unspoken, silent; implied, inferred
What is tacit?
"You see a ghost, something like a spinning statue by a shrub" identify the text and the lit device here.
What is "How to Talk to Your Mother" & alliteration?
In one abandoned grocery store, the boy discovers this rare treat, which the father lets him drink.
What is a can of Coca-Cola?
Hemingway uses this type of approach in his minimalist writing style.
What is omission/iceberg theory?
A purple milkshake honoring the birthday of this McDonald's mascot sparked a wave of parody horror videos that still haunts us
(n) undue favoritism to or excessive patronage of one’s relatives or close personal friends
What is neopotism?
"His lips pursed as he drew with his sword various crevices in the heap until brown squares of coffee, astoundingly equal in size, appeared on the blanket...suddenly the lieutenant cried out" This device can be both humorous and tragic. Identify it and the text.
What is "An Episode of War" & irony?
Much of the novel is told in this narrative perspective, which let us enter the father's thoughts while keeping the boy more distant.
What is third person limited perspective?
In "How to Talk to Your Mother", the story moves in this unusual direction.
What is reverse/non chronological order?
This historical figure became a meme sensation in 2021, thanks to an image of him sitting alone at the inauguration, donning cozy mittens.
Who is Bernie Sanders?
(adJ) marked with or full of disgrace; quality or conduct deserving disgrace; shameful; disgraceful
What is ignominious?
"The asters spindly, dry, white, havishammed (Havishammed!) by frost" Identify the main device and text.
What is "How to Talk to Your Mother" & allusion?
The bleak descriptions of the landscape, such as "like the onset of some cold glaucoma" demonstrate McCarthy's heavy reliance on this literary device?
What is metaphor/simile?
In "An Episode of War," Stephen Crane’s detached, unemotional description of the lieutenant’s injury reflects this literary movement, which emphasizes fate, chance, and indifference of nature.
What is Realism?
In a viral meme pairing a white cat with a yelling woman, that woman comes from this reality TV franchise.
What is The Real Housewives (of Beverly Hills)?