The Great Gatsby
The name of the town where Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway live.
What is West Egg?
The city in which the play is set.
What is Chicago?
What the children smell (or imagine they smell) when they take the shoes off the dead lady in Chapter 1.
What is the "dizzying smell of Lobels bread"?
The Scottish nobility rank that Macbeth has before becoming king, as do many other characters in the play.
What is thane?
In rhetoric, the use of emotional appeals (Greek term).
What is pathos?
Jordan Baker’s profession.
What is a professional golfer?
What Mama comes back into the apartment to retrieve at the end the play (a symbol throughout the play).
What is Mama's plant?
The first two words of the titles of three chapters in the novel, which end with “appeared,” “left,” and “lived.”
What are "how they"?
The number of murderers who attack Banquo.
What is three?
Two independent clauses placed together in a sentence with only a comma between them (grammar error).
What is a comma splice?
The name (first and last) of the character who kills Jay Gatsby.
What is George Wilson?
The country to which Joseph Asagai asks Beneatha to come with him (his home country).
What is Nigeria?
The names of Darling’s two friends in the U.S.
What are Marina and Kristal?
The name of King Duncan’s younger son.
What is Donalbain?
A character that contrasts with another character in a work of literature, highlighting specific qualities of that character.
What is a foil?
The expensive wedding gift Tom Buchanan gave to Daisy.
What is a pearl necklace?
In Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem,” the subject that “a raisin in the sun” metaphorically describes.
What is "a dream deferred"?
The country that Uncle Kojo is originally from.
What is Ghana?
The two characters who observe Lady Macbeth sleepwalking.
What are a doctor and a gentlewoman (i.e. lady-in-waiting)?
In “Family Supper” by Kazuo Ishiguro, the type of fish that killed the narrator’s mother (and perhaps the rest of his family).
What is fugu?
“So we beat on, _______________ , borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (Fill in the blank – four words).
What is "boats against the current"?
The name of Walter and Ruth Younger’s son.
What is Travis?
The name of the famous explorer about whom Darling repeatedly sings a song she learned in school when she was younger.
What is Vasco da Gama?
“Out, out, ________! Life’s but a walking shadow…” (Fill in the blank from Macbeth’s final soliloquy – two words).
What is "brief candle"?
In poetry, the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line.
What is enjambment?