The Great Gatsby
The name of the town where Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway live.
What is West Egg?
The name of the friend to whom Janie tells her life story.
What is Phoebe?
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?
The animal that becomes a local legend in Eatonville.
What is a mule?
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 game that Tea Cake and Janie play together on the porch.
What is checkers?
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?
Where Janie and Tea Cake go to work.
What is the Everglades, or “the muck”?
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"?
“_______________ have every man’s wish on board.” (Fill in the blank – four words).
What is “Ships at a distance”?
“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?