Characters
Key Themes
Plot Events
Quotes
Miscellaneous
100
This character exemplifies the quintessential hero and sets the standards for the stereotypical "hero's journey"
Who is Odysseus?
100
These two books describe the relationship between a father and son and the effects that this relationship has on a child.
What is The Kite Runner and Maus I?
100
This text tells the journey of a man and his wife who survive the horrible atrocities during the Holocaust.
What is Maus I?
100
"Yet I refused. I wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer--no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends." This quote is said by this character in the epic poem we read this year.
Who is Odysseus? Bonus 50 pts: Explain the context of the quote.
100
Homer's The Odyssey is characterized as this genre.
What is an epic poem?
200
These two boys start out as best friends and eventually part ways due to their different social standings in their native city of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Who are Amir and Hassan? Bonus 50 pts: which "class" does each belong to respectively?
200
This is a key theme in almost all of the literature we read this year. The main character maintains a goal and experiences hardships and challenges on the way to this goal.
What is the hero's journey?
200
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is centered around the racial injustices of the South in the early 20th century. Atticus Finch prepares to take on the lawsuit of the case of this man who is accused of raping the young white Mayella Ewell.
Who is Tom Robinson?
200
The following quote shows the main character Vladek is very conscious of ____________ "Better you should spend your time to make drawings what will bring you some money... "
What is money? Bonus 50 pts: How does Vladek's son art feel about his father's obsession with money/lack of money?
200
Animal Farm is characterized as this type of writing/genre.
What is an allegory or satire?
300
This is the nickname given to Romeo and Juliet even in the first 14 line sonnet of Shakespeare's play.
What are "star crossed lovers"?
300
The theme of "growing up" is prevalent in these three books that we read this year.
What are To Kill a Mockingbird, The Kite Runner, and Enrique's Journey? Bonus 50 pts: Explain who "grows up" and how in TKAM.
300
In Sonia Nazario's Enrique's Journey, Enrique travels through these countries to make it to his ultimate goal, the U.S.
What is Guatemala and Mexico? Bonus 100 pts: In which Mexican state were people kind and generous?
300
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. . ." This quote from Romeo and Juliet originates from this part of the play.
What is the prologue? Bonus 50 points: What does this quote mean in modern English?
300
Romeo and Juliet is the title of a play should look like this when typing the title in an essay.
What is italicized?
400
these characters (portrayed as animals) exert their power over the "lower class" animals of the farm because they are proclaimed to be the smartest animals on the farm.
Who are the pigs? Bonus 50 pts: How do they establish their power?
400
This emotion or feeling drives many characters in the books we have read this year. It can be platonic or romantic.
What is love?
400
These two texts involve rape at the core of the conflicts
What is The Kite Runner and To Kill a Mockingbird?
400
The following biblical allusion of the serpent in the garden is from this text: "I loved him in that moment, love him more than I'd loved anyone and I wanted to tell them that I was the snake in the grass."
What is The Kite Runner? Bonus 50 points: Explain the significance of the allusion.
400
When referring to the main character of a text we call him/her the protagonist. Those that get in the way of the protagonist's goal are called this.
What is an antagonist? Bonus 50 pts: Give the name of an antagonist from one of the texts we read this year.
500
She narrates the novel as a more mature version of herself looking back at the happenings of her childhood in the 1930's in the town of Maycomb, Alabama.
Who is Scout? Bonus 50 pts: give a character trait of young Scout
500
The key theme in this novel involves power and the corruption of power.
What is Animal Farm? Bonus 50 pts: Which animals become corrupt?
500
At the end of the play Romeo and Juliet, the play's two protagonists resolve there issue by doing this.
What is committing suicide?
500
The following quote is said by this person. “Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . . but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
Who is Cal / Calpurnia? Bonus 50 points: What does the mockingbird symbolize?
500
Romeo and Juliet, along with many of Shakespeare's plays, is written with this rhythmic style.
What is iambic pentameter?
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