School Trivia
What's the school's address?
3500 Ryder Hesjedal Way)
What is syntax?
a.) The sin of not paying your taxes
b) when two sentences have been joined with one of the FANBOYS
c) the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language
d) a technique for poets to create internal rhyme in a line of poetry
c) the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language
The literary device used in this sentence:
Adam ate an apple.
What is alliteration?
Which Canadian author has won a Nobel Peace Prize for her short stories?
Margaret Atwood, Ethel Wilson, Alice Munro, Monique Grey Smith
Alice Munro
Which is the world’s smallest mammal: the bumble-bee bat, or the dormouse?
The bumble-bee bat
Where is prom being held?
The Crystal Gardens
What is a tome?
a.) a collection of sci-fi short stories
b.) a place where dead people are buried
c.) a collection of haiku
d.) a thick book
A thick book
“My love is like a red, red rose” is an example of what literary device?
Simile
Complete the title: "The.....of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe.
Cask
The name of Desdemona’s father in the play Othello.
Brabantio
Mr. Burgess's room number.
2146
An ekphrastic poem is one that was:
a.) written about a work of art
b.) written using every letter of the alphabet
c.) written in rhyming couplets
d.) written about Greece
Written about a work of art.
Lightning danced across the sky.
What is personification?
Othello's fatal flaw.
Believing that others are honest.
The number of provinces and territories in Canada.
13
What's the room number for the turf gym?
1187
The name of a sad, mournful poem typically celebrating someone who has died:
a.) ballad
b.) elegy
c.) sonnet
d.) villanell
Elegy
“Hello, Darkness, my old friend” is an example of what literary device?
Apostrophe
The name of the older gentleman whose dog got shot in “Of Mice and Men.”
Candy
Where is the humerus bone found?
Lower leg, upper arm, upper leg, ankle
Upper arm
How many staff do we have at RBSS whose last name begins with the letter "w"?
Eight
When Shakespeare uses “barks” as a noun, he means this.
Ships
For example:
"He saw the/
bird on a branch."
What is enjambment?
The title character in a Shakespearean play about a prince of Denmark who wants to avenge his murdered father.
Hamlet
How many scenes are in the final act (Act Five) of "Othello"?
Two