Short Stories
Julius Caesar
Fahrenheit 451
Our town
Poetry
100
In the short story, The Lady or the Tiger, which one is picked in the end?
What is a trick question, you don't know which one is picked?
100
Calpurnia
Who is Caesar's wife?
100
What does Clarisse ask Montag after they talk in the beginning?
What is she asks him if he is happy?
100
Emily Webb marries?
Who is George Gibbs?
100
What is an alliteration? Give an example.
What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds. Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
200
What short story is, "I am still a beast at bay." from and who says it?
What is from The Most Dangerous Game and Rainsford says it.
200
Reason for Brutus saying Caesar has to be killed.
What is Brutus is worried Caesar will have too much power?
200
What is, "So various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night." from?
What is Dover Beach?
200
Why does Mrs. Webb cry about her daughter, Emily, and George getting married?
What is she didn't have "the talk" with her, and she hopes that her friends have.
200
Where is the metaphor for the poem Traveling Through the Dark, and what is it a metaphor for?
What is the whole poem is a metaphor, and it is sort of a metaphor about man and machine verses nature and how we control things?
300
What is a point of view? Name all four and explain them.
What is the perspective from which the story will be told? There is first person: character in the story (says I said, I know, I thought), second person: rarely used and feels forced and unofficial, third person limited: not an active character in story and just tells things that can be observed (doesn't know everything), third person omniscient: knows everything with the characters (like a god)?
300
What was the holiday being celebrated at the beginning of the book?
What is Labor Day?
300
What does Montag think about the mechanical hound, compared to what Beatty thinks? And how is it relevant to the theme?
What is Montag thinks it is after him with something to do with his memory and that maybe it is coming to life on them, but Beatty just says, "It is a fine piece of craftsmanship." And it is relevant because things are sort of opposite, and not what they seem in this book?
300
What does Emily die of?
What is she died in childbirth?
300
Give an example of a slant rhyme.
What is evil and devil? (Other options work.)
400
Who gets picked in the Lottery? And why does this turn out to be such a terrible short story?
Who is Mrs. Hutchinson, and it is a terrible short story because the name of this story is called "The Lottery" but really you are getting picked to be stoned to death.
400
What is the mix-up in act 5, scene 3 that causes Cassius's death?
What is Cassius sends Titinius to figure out whose troops are in the distance, Cassius thinks he gets captured so he kills himself because he loved him?
400
The word "grange" is like the characters name, Granger, how does the meaning of "grange" tie in with Granger?
What is grange is a country house with farm buildings attached to it and it ties in with Granger because that is the kind of place the "book people" live at?
400
In the third act, the stage manager talks about changes going on in Grover's Corners. Name one.
What is horses are getting rarer, farmers have Fords, everyone locks their house at night, or people have passed away?
400
Who is speaking in the poem Playing Piano, what is their attitude or tone?
Who is the piano is talking, and it is a happy piano?
500
In the short story Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets, what does the man end up doing in the end of the story? And why?
What is he goes to find his wife, because he just had a near death experience and he realizes that it wasn't worth going through so much trouble to try to get?
500
What are the three kinds of irony in this story?
What is verbal irony, dramatic irony, and irony of situation?
500
In the end of the book, what does Granger compare man too and explain why; also what kind of factory does he say they will build and explain why?
What is Granger compares man to a phoenix because every time they burn themselves up, they are re-born out of ashes, and Granger says they are doing the same thing; Granger also says they are going to build a mirror factory because mirrors represent a sense of seeing themselves clearly?
500
What was the overall play about?
What is (something along the lines of) there is a start and end to things, everybody dies, so live life without regrets, because if you were given one day to go back to, choose something that wasn't a very special day, because even it will seem amazing?
500
What is the name of the author who writes fun poems, and what is the name of the author who writes dark poems?
Who is Billy Collins and Edgar Allen Poe?
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