Literature 1
How did people treat the author's mother in "Mother Tongue" when they heard her speak?
Disrespectfully; ignored her; discounted her, etc.
How the protagonist in "The Story of an Hour" reacted when she found out her husband died
What is being thrilled?
Author of "Mother Tongue"
Who is Amy Tan?
Identify the error in this sentence:
He asked her a question and she answered.
Missing comma between "question" and "and"
The time and place where a story occurs
What is setting?
The first name of Fitzgerald's wife/lover
Who is Zelda?
According to "Sweet Land of Conformity," Americans are 1) more individual or 2) more group-minded
What is 2, more group-minded?
Name two figures from the Harlem Renaissance
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Identify the error in this sentence:
Before she left Eleanor always drank a cup of coffee.
Missing comma after "left"
Rhetorical device in which the speaker says one thing but means the opposite; sarcasm
What is verbal irony?
Decade that The Great Gatsby was written in
What are the 1920s?
The situational irony in "The Story of an Hour"
The protagonist dying of a heart attack out of sadness that her husband was still alive
Died of a heart attack induced by alcoholism [need FULL name]
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Identify the error in this sentence:
You're shirt is missing a button!
You're should be your
The difference between an idiom and a cliche
Cliche: overused saying
Idiom: overused saying that has different figurative and literal meanings
Two specific places where the mother in "Mother Tongue" was treated badly
What are the hospital, department stores, and the stock broker's office?
The person who tried to comfort the main character in "The Story of an Hour" after her husband died
[name or relationship]
Who is Josephine, or her sister?
Author of "The Story of an Hour"
Who is Kate Chopin?
Identify the error in this sentence:
He was angry; so they decided to leave him alone.
Can't have a FANBOYS conjunction and a semicolon together
What is diction?
Author of "Speech to the Young"
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
City/municipality where the mother is from in "Mother Tongue"
What is Shanghai?
Author of "Lamb to the Slaughter"
Roald Dahl
Identify the error in this sentence:
I'm shocked that he said that to you: he knows better then that!
then should be than
Difference between dramatic and situational irony
Dramatic: reader knows something the character doesn't
Situational: something unexpected; plot twist