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Modern Languages Association
One Sentence Stories
Movie Adaptations
Chicago
100

When the audience knows something the characters don't.

What is Dramatic Irony?

100

Font and point size required in all academic essays.

What is Times New Roman, 12?

100

Two kids' clandestine marriage, which ends in a double suicide, mends the feud between their two families.

What is Romeo and Juliet?

100
Stranded in the middle of the ocean, a boy is faced with difficult moral choices while befriending his only companion, a tiger.

What is Life of Pi?

100

The city is best known for this kind of "dish"... some love it, others don't consider it this type of food at all.

What is deep dish pizza?

200

The protagonist of George Orwell's seminal dystopian novel.

Who is Winston Smith?

200

When you credit a source within the body of an essay.

What is an in-text citation?

200

After taking a prophecy to heart, a successful war general goes on a killing spree.

What is Macbeth?

200

The second part of this seminal sci-fi novel adaptation was released in March of this year, to both audience and critical acclaim.

What is Dune part 2?

200

The approximate population of Chicago, the United States' third largest city.

What is 3 million?

300

The drug used to subdue and control the world's citizens in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

What is soma?

300

The order of items in the signature block of an essay.

What are Name, Teacher, Class, and Date?

300

A rich bachelor goes to incredible lengths to win back the heart of a long-lost love.

What is The Great Gatsby?

300

This film series was adapted from novels set in a dystopian future, where society is broken into the factions Amity, Erudite, Abnegation, Candor, and Dauntless.

What is Divergent?

300

Home to major sports teams like the Cubs, Bears, and Bulls, this is the name of Chicago's WNBA team.

Who are the Sky?

400

Singer/songwriter from New Jersey, whose satirical rock music criticized the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

Who is Bruce Springsteen?

400

The second item in a Works Cited entry for an online source.

What is the article title?

400

A genius, neuro-divergent boy goes on an adventure to discover the truth about his family.

What is the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime?

400

Considered the greatest movie of all time, many people are unaware that it was adapted from a Steven King novella.

What is The Shawshank Redemption?

400

The year this movie-musical, which shares its name with the city, won Best Picture at the Oscars.

What is 2003?

500

A native of New Zealand and of Jewish heritage, he directed and co-starred as Hitler in Jojo Rabbit.

Who is Taika Waititi?

500
The most current edition of MLA formatting guidelines.

What is 9th?

500

One man tests the limits of both science and philosophy instead of facing his own trauma head on.

What is Frankenstein?

500

Starring Jack Nicholson, this story follows a patient trapped in a psychiatric ward and his attempts to escape from the tortuous orderlies.

What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

500

The city Mr. Davis will miss deeply, due in large part to the students who helped make it such a special place.

What is Fargo?

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