Crime Fiction
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Curriculum
The Boring Stuff
100

The murder weapon in Lamb to the slaughter

What is a leg of lamb?

100

A type of pasta

What is macaroni?

100

happy, clean, stupid, slow, tall

What is an adjective?

100

A Supreme Court decision from 2022 that has had an impact on the lives of American women.

What Roe vs Wade?

100

Sender, receiver, circumstances, topic, language, intention

What is the pentagram?

200

A detective who is a genius and omniscient.

Who is Sherlock Holmes?

200

A small cake or cookie

What is macaroon 

200

I, she, themselves, yours, this, whose

What is a pronoun?

200

A short story about the conflict about cultural and religious values between a father and his son.

What is "My Son, The Fanatic"?

200

An argument that appeals to the audience by emphasizing the speaker's credibility

What is ethos?

300

A short story about an author who visits an art museum in Venice and meets a female serial killer.

What is "Don't you Hate Having Two Heads"?

300

A type of nut

What is macadamia?

300

also, only, very, always, happily

What is an adverb?

300

A song encouraging young people to be just what they want to be?

What is "I Can" by Nas?

300

When a novel or short story starts in the middle of the plot

What is "in medias res"?

400

A short story about a conversation between a crime investigator and a murder victim


What is "Tell Me"?

400

The Golden Arches

What is MacDonalds?

400

They should have been invited to the party

What is a passive sentence?

400

The first African American President in the USA

Who is Barack Obama?

400

Use of for example sound, camera angle and colors in a movie

What are cinematic features?

500

A short story about homeless people getting killed by a serial killer that does not take place in London.

What is The Good Samaritan"?

500

A Scotsman Shubidua sings about

Who is MacArine?

500

run, swim, sing, pay, become

What is an irregular verb?

500

The UK's official biggest song of 2021 according to the Official Charts Company.

What is Bad Habits (by Ed Sheeran)?

500

a literary technique by which the full significance of a character's words or actions is clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.

What is dramatic irony?

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