Poetry
The repetition of concluding syllables
rhyme
The universal idea explored in a work of fiction
THEME
A person, place, thing, or idea
NOUN
What is the name of Elie's village?
Sighet
Complete the couplet:
Two households, both alike in dignity
(In fair ______, where we lay our scene)
Verona
the intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s
Harlem Renaissance
Who said the following?
"In the particular is contained the universal."
James Joyce
Describes a verb, adjective, or another one of its own kind
ADVERB
Complete the following sentence:
"Jews look! Look at the _____."
FIRE
How old is Juliet?
Thirteen
The author of such poems as "Subway Wind" and "To One Coming North"
Claude McKay!
Why is it important that the protagonist of The Flowers is named Myop?
She is metaphorically blind to the horrors of the world (or something like that).
A word preceding a noun or noun phrase that indicates quantity, ownership, or relation to the speaker
DETERMINER
Why is life considered meaningful in Judaism?
It is viewed as God-created.
Complete the couplet!
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the ____.
SUN
Finish the stanza:
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!
What story is the following excerpt from?
Because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk or like my little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other, each year inside the next one. That's how being eleven years old is.
"Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros
What are the two types of conjunctions and what are they used for?
COORDINATING: links two independent clauses
SUBORDINATING: makes one clause dependent on another (links an independent and dependent)
Complete the sentence!
Never shall I forget the nocturnal _______ that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
SILENCE
What meter did Shakespeare prefer to use in his verse?
Iambic pentameter
Find the meter of the following lines:
Double, double toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble
trochaic tetrameter
Complete the following sentence from "Eveline":
Not long before, when she had been laid up for a day, he had read her out a ______ story and made toast for her at the fire.
GHOST
Identify the adverbs in the following sentences:
He almost got hurt, but it was still pretty funny.
He ALMOST got hurt, but it was STILL PRETTY funny.
Complete the sentence from Wiesel's speech!
Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a _______.
PUNISHMENT
Complete the couplet:
The Earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb;
What is her burying grave, that is her _____
WOMB