Literary Devices
These are the two parts of a metaphor.
What are tenor and vehicle?
These religious refugees escaped England to Amsterdam and ultimately to New England.
Who are the Puritans?
What does the acronym TIED stand for?
Topic: Introduction to evicence, Evidence, Discussion
This plant was growing outside of the prison door in Chapter 1.
What is a rosebush?
He was Dr. Maticic's predecessor at Holy Child as well as his former professor at NYU.
Who is Dr. Duffy?
This is an explicit comparison, often using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
DAILY DOUBLE
The witch trials that took place in this Massachusetts town occurred in the same era as the one in which the Scarlet Letter is set.
What is Salem?
This is the name of a particular theoretical perspective to take on a piece of literature.
What is a Critical Lens?
Hester makes a living doing this occupation.
What is weaving?
These three women, the Head of School, Head of the Upper School, and Head of the Middle School, were all English teachers prior to becoming administrators.
Who are Ms. Pettus, Ms. Calhoun, and Ms. Poccia?
This type of writing uses ordinary sentence structure, rather than meter or rhyme, and is used in novels and essays.
What is prose?
This is the name of the colony in which The Scarlet Letter is set.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Dr. Maticic's least favorite grammatical mistake, this error occurs when two independent clauses are joined with a comma and no coordinating conjunction.
What is a comma splice?
Dimmesdale saw a large A created by this natural phenomenon.
What is a meteor?
They are the two AP English teachers at Holy Child.
Who are Ms. Calvosa and Ms. Provazza?
This literary term refers to placing two ideas, characters, or images side by side to highlight their differences or similarities.
What is juxtaposition?
What is the 19th century and the 17th century?
The writing manual says that introductions should start broad and narrow to a thesis, thus resembling this shape.
What is an inverted triangle?
DAILY DOUBLE
After he died, Chillingworth left his fortune to this person.
Who is Pearl?
Dr. Maticic has a PhD in this subject.
What is Classics?
Feminist literary analysis examines how knowledge is structured using various opposing pairs of ideas that all trace back to this problematic binary.
What is male/female?
This Puritan woman, who was mentioned in Chapter 1 of The Scarlet Letter, was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s for challenging religious authority and speaking out about faith.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This part of speech, which is used to describe verbs among other parts of speech, should be used rarely in academic writing
What are adverbs?
In Chapter 1, Hawthorne says that every new colony has to have these two things.
What is a prison and a cemetery?
These two women teach Middle School English at Holy Child.
Who are Ms. Wu and Ms. Pitocchi?