AP "Lit"
What "lit" stands for in an English-class context
What is literature?
The mnemonic that is often used in order to remember conjunctions
What is FANBOYS?
The state whose capital of Montgomery is home to Faulkner University
What is Alabama?
The Toni Morrison novel that we read in class
What is Sula?
The lost colony which was apparently located in North Carolina and not Virginia like I thought until a few months ago
What is Roanoke?
The word that many millennial/gen-z people use when they actually mean "figuratively"
What is literally?
The MCU movie that first featured Scott Lang
What is Ant-Man?
The number of Jason Compsons that existed before the one who had the narrative in The Sound and the Fury
What is 3?
The collection of "books" which contains a book sharing its name with Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
What is the Bible? (or the Tanakh or the Ketuvim)
Kelly spent a while analyzing the role of a pair of gloves in a Virginia Woolf story during this period of our class
What is the modernist vacation?
The lightest metal on the periodic table
A figure of speech; examples might include a stupid genius, a loud whisper, or a boring Jeopardy game
What is an oxymoron?
William Faulkner's middle name was Cuthbert, which is the first name of this ghostly Hogwarts teacher
Who is Professor Binns?
The group that played an arrangement of Van Morrison's "Moondance" for a commons concert in 2018 and also on May 14th this year for fun
What is the US Jazz Band?
What is a play?
The charms teacher at Hogwarts
Who is Professor Flitwick?
The first English-language one of these was written by Daniel Defoe; we didn't read any of them until second semester
What is a novel?
The prize that Faulkner won for two of his novels in the fiction category; other winners include August Wilson for plays and Dave Barry for journalism
What is the Pulitzer?
Nell's (former) husband, who shares a name with some guy that the Beatles said "Hey" to
Who is Jude?
The Michigan National Park where a population of deer and wolves engage in interesting ecological relationships
What is Isle Royale?
The Thomas Young experiment that proved light's wave-like nature
What is the Double Slit Experiment?
The official language of the United States
What is nothing?
Quentin's friend at Harvard, whose name when appended with "port" names the third-largest city in Louisiana
Who is Shreve?
The band for which Jim Morrison was the lead singer
Who are The Doors?
A Virginia Woolf novel is titled To the this type of building; Michigan has more of them than any other state
What is a lighthouse?