Questionable Juror Behavior
"Let's wrap this up- I have tickets to a Broadway play tonight" is something this juror would say
Who is Juror 7?
He buys a mansion across the bay because Zillow doesn't have a "sort-by-ex-girlfriend" feature
Who is Jay Gatsby?
This character hears "don't do that" as a friendly suggestion
This kind of money is supposed to fix everything, but instantly causes new problems
What is life insurance?
This character’s main way of communicating starts off as letters addressed to someone who doesn’t exactly write back quickly.
Who is Celie?
This is what teachers say you need at the end of every paragraph, even when you swear you already explained everything.
What is a conclusion sentence?
This word means a total lack of concern, like how you feel after the third reminder about homework.
What is indifference?
If "being mad at the defendant for personal reasons" was an olympic sport, this juror would win gold
Who is Juror 3?
This character treats marriage vows like terms and conditions
Who is Tom Buchanan?
This dream is repeated so often it becomes the ranch's favorite bedtime story
What is owning a farm?
Walter Lee’s “get rich quick” plan involves investing in this type of business deal.
What is a liquor store?
This character’s “husband energy” is best described as 100% problems and 0% customer service.
Who is Mister?
This is the “fancy way of saying the main idea,” at the end of your intro paragraph
What is a thesis statement?
This word means to persist stubbornly, like continuing to argue even though you clearly lost the point five minutes ago.
What is doggedly?
"I bought an identical weapon to the murder weapon 5 minutes ago on our lunch break" is essentially this juror's power move
Who is Juror 8?
After causing chaos for nearly everyone around her, this character's signature move is leaving town
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
This character spends takes the entire novel to realize that babysitting should pay way more
Who is George?
She’s the only person in the house who can argue about medicine, identity, and religion all before breakfast.
Who is Beneatha?
This character turns “confidence issues” into a full glow-up arc with music, style, and boundary-setting.
Who is Shug Avery?
This common error happens when two independent clauses are joined with only a comma, creating a sentence that is technically wrong but emotionally committed.
What is a comma splice?
This word describes something unpredictable and all over the place
What is erratic?
The true villain of 12 Angry Men: not the defendant, not the jurors, but this missing modern convenience.
What is Air Conditioning?
This character spends the entire novel believing money can purchase this
What is the past?
This character's favorite hobby is appearing exactly where she is told not to be
Who is Curley's Wife?
This character’s reaction to stress is best described as: sigh, sit down, survive.
Who is Ruth?
These character's relationship actually evolves into one with respect and equality
This part of the MLA heading usually comes last and is formatted as day month year (no commas, because MLA said so).
What is the date?
This word describes the feeling of being extremely annoyed or frustrated, like how I feel after repeating myself 12 times
What is exasperation?
"I just spend 3 hours proving myself wrong and somehow I am strangely okay with it" would be the tagline to this play
What is 12 Angry Men?
This object becomes the most famous long-distance situationship signal in American literature.
What is the green light?
If a character has a detailed emergency plan stating that "if something goes wrong, hide in a bush" in Chapter 1, this literary device is probably trying to tell you something.
What is foreshadowing?
The entire Younger family is ultimately forced to decide whether holding onto this matters more than everything they’re risking to get it.
This color is in the title of Shug Avery's song to Miss Celie
What is Blue?
This is when the author uses an object, person, or situation to represent a deeper meaning, and suddenly a simple story becomes a five-page essay.
What is symbolism?
If someone performs a task with subtle skill and precision, they are doing it in this way.
What is deft?