Who Heard It?
"Marry, that 'marry' is the very theme
I came to talk of. Tell me, (this person),
How stands your disposition to be married?"
Who is Juliet?
This place is "not the way they told it at all. It's small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath."
What is the House on Mango Street?
These crucial essay items do important legwork in priming the reader for the points to come in that section--avoid plot summary!
What are topic sentences?
From this – experienced Here –
Remove the Dates – to These –
Let Months dissolve in further Months –
And Years – exhale in Years –
(From Forever is composed of nows, Emily Dickinson)
What is enjambment?
NASA plans to "de-orbit" this technological marvel in the year 2031. No buzzing, Teddy!
What is the International Space Station?
"You go on down there to that A&P and see if you can get your job back."
Who is Cory?
According to the Prince, the two households in Verona are "both alike" in this.
What is dignity?
When writing about events in a text, it's best to describe them in this tense... and stay consistent!
What is the present tense?
And the plane to the pine-tree
is whispering some tale of love
Till it rustles with laughter
and tosses its mantle of green...
(From Magdalen Walks, Oscar Wilde)
What is personification?
New mascot? An adaptation of this Roald Dahl book was Wes Anderson's first (but not only!) stop-motion animated film. No buzzing Louie!
What is The Fantastic Mr. Fox?
"What matters is for the boys to see us and for us to see them"
Who is Esperanza?
In Act 1 Scene 1, Bono accuses Troy of "walking up around" this woman's house, foreshadowing future immorality.
Who is Alberta?
The first short section of your Passage IDs should provide these three key pieces of information.
What are title, author, and context?
Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters...
(From Mother to Son, Langston Hughes)
What is a named/controlling metaphor?
This affliction often leads people to pursue gluten-free diets because of the various symptoms it causes. No buzzing, James!
What is celiac disease?
"You're home now. It's alright. You can stay."
Who is the father?
Upon returning to their house from Utah, the girl discovers a half-finished game of this, one where house deeds are passed around (she notices "the smallest green wooden house in the world")
What is Monopoly?
These two terms in your writing lexicon come from the Latin for "proof" and the Greek for "solving a problem by breaking it up."
Moses, from whose loins I sprung,
Lit by a lamp in his blood
Ten immutable rules, a moon
For mutable lampless men.
(from The Jew, Isaac Rosenberg)
What is consonance/assonance? (l/m sounds or "oo" vowel sound)
This season, this head coach of Bayern Leverkusen broke the European record for the longest streak of unbeaten games-- 51! No buzzing, Devin!
Who is Xabi Alonso?
"Or, if I live, is it not very like
The horrible conceit of death and night,
Together with the terror of the place—
As in a vault..."
Who is no one? (It's a soliloquy!)
Esperanza says that this 'godly' girl is "always sad like a house on fire--always something wrong"
Who is Minerva?
It's Blue Book time! When hand-writing your essays, instead of turning your paper 14° to write in italics, do this to denote the titles of the four major texts (still quotations marks for poems!)
What is underline?
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
(from Concord Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson)
What is hyperbole?
This Lieutenant General of the British Army was defeated at the Battle of Yorktown, leading to his surrender. No buzzing, Paul!
Who is (Charles) Cornwallis?