WHO WROTE IT?
This author wrote about the working class in this famous American city?
Who is Carl Sandburg in "Chicago."
Who said, "Her voice is full of money," and which character is being referred to?
Who is Jay Gatsby about Daisy Buchanan.?
Attention getter examples include:
A. Quote
B. Anecdote
C. Interesting Fact
D. Statistic
E. Rhetorical Question
F. All of the Above
What is F. all of the above?
"Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders"
Which city is being referenced?
Cleveland
Chicago
New York City
Detroit
What is Chicago?
You'll go up, up on a broomstick, over _________________ , ______________________ ! You old, babbling witch!"
* East Egg | with your obnoxious voice.
* Blue Mountain | with Seventeen Gentleman Callers
* The Eyes of TJ Eckleburg | with your diamond dog leashes
*Rubicund Business College | with your fear of typewriters
What is Blue Mountain with Seventeen Gentleman Callers?
This author used innovative techniques to design a modern stage set depicting memory.
What is The Glass Menagerie?
"I am the __________
Let me _________."
Which teo words fill in the blanks above?
What is grass and work?
It is appropriate to use first and second person pronouns in a formal writing assignment.
True or False
What is False?
"__________ believed in the _________________, the orgastic future that
year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no
matter — to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms
farther... . And one fine morning ——"
Who is Jay Gatsby and The Green Light?
"My sister, Rose, was the model for the character, _______ __________, in ______________________________."
Who is Laura Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie?
Inspired by The Lost Generation of writers and created The Great Gatsby out of his disillusionment about The American Dream.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
"Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a
sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart."
Who said it and from what literary work?
Who is Nick Carraway and what is The Great Gatsby?
The heading for an MLA formatted essay shares information in this order:
A. Student Name, Teacher Name, Course Title, Date
B. Teacher Name, Course Name, Student Name, Date
C. Title of Essay, Teacher Name, Course Name, Date
D. Student name, Course Title, Teacher Name. Date
What is A?
"Go, then ! Then go to the moon - you selfish dreamer."
Who said this from what literary work?
Who is Amanda Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie?
The themes studied in The Glass Menagerie include all of the following except:
Abandonment vs. Duty
Reality vs. Illusion & Escape
Alienation vs. Connection
What is Nature vs. Nurture
What is Nature vs. Nurture?
This author and his famous poem reveals emotions through these famous lines:
"I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over."
Who is Robert Frost and "Birches?"
"Can't repeat the past?" [he, or she] cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"
Who said it, and from which literary work?
Who is Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby?
Which is the following is correct format for in text citation?
A. Her voice is full of money. (Fitzgerald 52)
B. "Her voice is full of money" (Fitzgerald 52).
C. "Her voice is full of money." (Fitzgerald).
D. "Her voice is full of money". (Fitzgerald 52)
What is B?
Tennessee Williams included which of the following experimental techniques in his play, The Glass Menagerie. These techniques produced what he called; A Memory Play.
lighting
music
screens
narration
all of the above
What is all of the above?
"He is the most realistic character in the [story], being an emissary from a world of reality that we were somehow set apart from. But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for."
What character is being referred to in this quote, and which text is it taken from?
Tom Wingfield | The Glass Menagerie
George Wilson | The Great Gatsby
Jim O'Conner | The Glass Menagerie
Jay Gatsby | The Great Gatsby
Who is Jim O'Conner, The Glass Menagerie?
" Author who created one of the first Imagist poems that expresses the importance of recognizing and appreciating the everyday tasks of manual labor?
What is The Red Wheelbarrow by Williams Carlos Williams?
"I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South - barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife ! - stuck away in some little mousetrap of a room..."
Who said it what work is this from?
Who is Amanda Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie?
"For I have had too much
Of _____________________: I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired."
Fill-in the missing word(s)
the movies
apple-picking
gentleman callers
glass animals
What is Apple Picking?
Which two phrases are repeated twice in Mending Wall, by Robert Frost?
A. "Something there is that doesn't love a wall."
B. "He is all pine and I am apple orchard."
C. 'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
D. 'Good fences make good neighbors.'
What is A and D?
My poem, I, Too, makes an allusion to this famous American poet who loved America and the idea of democracy, freedom and celebrating diversity and the American identity.
The two American poets being referenced in the statement above are:
Carl Sandburg | William Carlos Williams
Robert Frost | John Steinbeck
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Countee Cullen
Langston Hughes | Walt Whitman
Who is Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman?