These are the four major works of literature that we read for English class this year.
What are:
1. House Rules
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Lord of the Flies
4. Macbeth
100
This is the name of the theatre in which most of Shakespeare's plays were performed.
What is the Globe?
100
This political party won the simulated election held at school last week.
What is the Liberal party?
200
This term describes when one of the characters of the story narrates the action.
What is first-person narration?
200
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"
What is "hyperbole."
200
In To Kill a Mockingbird, this is Scout's real name.
What is Jean-Louise Finch?
200
This is the price you would pay to attend on of Shakespeare's plays.
What is four pennies?
200
The 5 people form the administration at HRHS.
Who are:
Ms Barnes, Ms McCarthy, Ms Kilpatrick, Mr Noirfalise, and Mr Seltmann?
300
This term describes the time and place of the story.
What is the setting?
300
On my way to work this morning, I saw a tow truck being towed to the garage for repairs.
What is "irony"?
300
These are the three predictions the witches tell to Banquo and Macbeth in Act 1 of the play.
What are:
1- Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor;
2- Macbeth will be king hereafter;
3- Banquo will beget kings.
300
In Shakespeare's theater, this is the room where the money for ticket sales was kept.
What is the box office?
300
This aspiring businessman watched on as a young American in Pennsylvania ate a tomato for sport in the 18th century.
Who is Henry Heinz?
400
This technique can provide the reader with an omnipotent, objective view of the action of the story.
What is third-person narration?
400
Big brown baboon blowing bubbles on a bicycle.
What is "onomatopoeia"?
400
These two objects represent law, order, and civility in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies."
What are the conch and Piggy's glasses?
400
This term refers to the happy but disgusting members of the audience that would stand or sit at the very endue of the stage.
What is "groundling"?
400
These are the names of two of three my kids.
What are Ezekiel (Zeke), Jacob, and Samuel?
500
This French term describes the falling action at the end of a story.
What is "denouement"?
500
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing."
What is "metaphor"?
500
Dill uses this excuse when Atticus interrogates the kids about what they were doing outside at night when gunshots are heard in the neighbourhood in Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird."
What is "We were playing strip-poker"?
500
This is the one genre of literature that Shakespeare knew everyone in his audience would be familiar with, regardless of how much education they had received.