Conventions/Grammar
The Great Gatsby
The Glass Menagerie
The Yellow Wallpaper
Perks of Being a Wallflower
100
This is the way you format a book title if you are writing by hand.
What is underlining?
100
Widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th Century, this American novelist and short story writer illustrated life in the Jazz age.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
100
Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, this playwright is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th-century American drama.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
100
The narrator tries to free an imaginary woman by destroying this.
What is the yellow wallpaper?
100
This American novelist, screenwriter, and film director is best known for his coming-of-age novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Who is Stephen Chbosky?
200
This is the way you would format a book title if you were typing.
What are italics?
200
Jay Gatsby amasses his wealth through this illegal activity.
What is bootlegging?
200
This short play by Durang is a parody of The Glass Menagerie.
What is For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls?
200
This short story raises awareness for what medical condition?
What is postpartum depression?
200
Many of the characters in Perks of Being a Flower suffer from these types of events.
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences?
300
This is the way you should format the title of an article.
What are quotation marks?
300
Nick briefly dates this golfer/socialite.
Who is Jordan Baker?
300
The fact that the audience knows that Laura is about to encounter her longtime crush (and Laura does not know), is a prime example of this literary device.
What is Dramatic Irony?
300
The narrator of the story was kept in this room during the majority of her confinement.
What is the nursery?
300
Charlie copes with his depression by doing this.
What is letter writing?
400
This sentence contains a grammatical error: "She and Jerry are getting married in the fall, they didn’t want a summer wedding."
What is a comma splice?
400
This character said, "Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!"
Who is Jay Gatsby?
400
This glass animal, Laura's favorite, is an important symbol in the story, representing how Jim breaks a part of Laura.
What is a unicorn?
400
This author wrote one of the most important works in early feminist literature.
Who is Charlotte Perkins Gilman?
400
This character said, "We accept the love we think we deserve."
Who is Charlie's English teacher?
500
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair." This quote from Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities employs what grammatical structure?
What is parallelism?
500
This man took Gatsby under his wing when Gatsby was a young man and taught him much about living adventurously and pursuing dreams.
Who is Dan Cody?
500
What flower represents Amanda's past?
What are jonquils?
500
This ineffective cure was prescribed to many women in the Victorian Era with postpartum depression.
What is rest cure?
500
Charlie relates most to a character in what other classic novel?
What is The Catcher in the Rye?
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