Hints and clues about what will happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
100
Romeo: "Oh, she teaches the torches to burn bright."
What is R and J's light-and-dark motif.
100
How Jem realizes Boo is a mockingbird.
What happens when Nathan Radley fills in the knothole.
100
In TKAM, the courthouse and the Finch neighborhood serve this purpose.
What is each serves as to illustrate ignorance and segregation in Maycomb.
100
Place the participle phrase next to the word it modifies.
What is a good participle-phrase placement rule?
200
An object that has meaning in and of itself, but it also represents something greater. The American flag is an example.
What is a symbol?
200
How Nurse is indirectly characterized as adoring Juliet.
What is the significance of Nurse describing how she weaned Juliet?
200
She tells Scout the truth about Boo and the Radley family.
What part does Miss Maudie play in TKAM?
200
This specifies who is speaking and where they speak, in a literary analysis essay.
What is a set-up sentence's purpose in a literary analysis essay?
200
This will cause you to lose points: The gifts where placed by Boo in the knothole tree.
What is a passive-voice sentence. Fix it, if you want the points: The gifts where placed by Boo in the knothole tree.
300
When the audience knows more than the characters.
What is is dramatic irony.
300
The significance of Romeo saying "I thought all for the best" when he explains to Mercutio why he tries to break up the Mercutio-Tybalt fight in act 3, scene 1.
What illustrates the Road to Hell motif in act 3, scene 1?
300
How irony and hypocrisy are evident at the missionary tea.
What is the significant about the missionary tea ladies supporting J. Grimes Everett's mission to covert to Christianity the heathen Mrunas in Africa, but the tea ladies won't give Maycomb's African-Americans (already Christians) the time of day?
300
Romeo's decision to be with Juliet in her crypt and Jaxon's decision to be with Deborah at the Jewish "rehab" center in Monsy.
Who are the characters in R and J and LNO who are head-driven?
300
John had just set down the overstuffed sandwich when he spotted a cockroach on the table. He smashed it with his open palm before he could eat.
What is John smashing in this sentence? John had just set down the overstuffed sandwich when he spotted a cockroach on the table. He smashed it with his open palm before he could eat.
400
The literary device illustrated when Bob Ewell spits in Atticus's face.
What is foreshadowing.
400
The significance of Lord Capulet telling Paris he can't marry Juliet, but he can woo her, beginning at the Capulet party that evening.
What illustrates Lord Capulet's paternal love for his daughter when Paris first asks for Juliet's hand in marriage?
400
He must pretend to be something he is not, so his "neighbors" will allow him to live in Maycomb County.
Who is Dolphus Raymond?
400
Mrs. Dubose's purpose in TKAM.
What is, in TKAM, she illustrates Atticus's definition of courage: you do something, even though you know you're "licked," and you see it through, no matter what.
400
"According to Atticus Finch," is the beginning of a sentence that might be written for a particular purpose.
What is a good introductory phrase to use when specifying an example to prove your point in an editorial's/persuasive essay's body paragraph?
500
The literary device illustrated by Friar Lawrence's potion-making practices--other than indirect characterization.
What is an example of situational irony in Romeo and Juliet?
500
The literary device evident when Romeo says "Did I ever love 'til now?" when he spies Juliet at the Capulet party.
What is the situational irony evident when Romeo first spies Juliet?
500
TKAM's protagonist's internal conflict is resolved here.
What is significant about TKAM"s end-of-novel porch scene, as it relates to the story's plot elements?
500
What Friar Lawrence, Nurse, and Mercutio have in common.
Who are the three R and J characters who Shakespeare indirectly characterizes by having each character relate something that apparently has little to do with the play's plot?
500
These lines explain in detail how a quote proves a point specified in a topic sentence.
What is the purpose of the analysis portion of a literary analysis paragraph?