On a First Name Basis
Who Said It?
Literary Terms
"S" Words
Pop Culture Potpourri
100
It seems like she loves her "parlor walls" more than her husband.
Who is Mildred?
100
"Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean."
Who is Captain Beatty?
100
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is personification?
100
In literature, this is the use of a person, object, or situation to represent an idea.
What is symbolism?
100
This Boston native traded his Red Sox hat for a cowboy hat to play a "beefy" Texas Ranger in True Grit.
Who is Matt Damon?
200
At Derryfield, J. Reynolds might refer to the Assistant Dean of Academics, but in English 9 the "J" refers to this author of Long Way Down.
Who is Jason (Reynolds)?
200
"I never shot nobody I didn't have to."
Who is Rooster Cogburn?
200
A word spelled out by rearranging the letters of another word.
What is an anagram?
200
Long Way Down tells the story of a young man searching for the killer of his older brother named this.
What is Shawn?
200
In Long Way Down, the protagonist mentions how his brother loved these two hip hop legends who were murdered in drive-by shootings in the 90's.
Who are Tupac (Shakur) and Biggie (The Notorious B.I.G.)?
300
He's known as Rooster in True Grit, but this U.S. Marshall was born with this first name, also a delicious sandwich.
What is Reuben?
300
"I'm about to do what
I gotta do. What you woulda done.
I squared.
Follow The Rules."
Who is Will Holloman?
300
A figure of speech composed of a striking exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
300
From True Grit: “The man Haze was old with a _______ wrinkled face.” The missing word means: (of a person's face or complexion) of an unhealthy yellow or pale brown color.
What is sallow?
300
A lone bounty hunter and his young charge journey together in this Star Wars-inspired space Western that parallels True Grit's motifs of grit and justice.
What is The Mandalorian?
400
He made a cameo in Fahrenheit 451 as Clarisse's uncle, but some readers may remember him from the earlier Bradbury short story "The Pedestrian."
Who is Leonard (Mead)?
400
"[He] stood looking back with Montag. 'Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Something your hand touched in some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.'"
Who is Granger?
400
The expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human experience.
What is allegory?
400
The very first short story we read, "On the Bridge," ends with this protagonist throwing his jean jacket in the garbage can.
Who is Seth?
400
This actress made her breakthrough performance as Mattie Ross in True Grit. This past weekend she did a very un-Mattie-like thing and got married to Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen.
Who is Hailee Steinfeld?
500
She was a staunch advocate for her daughter Judy, fighting for her right to attend school and live a full life despite her paralysis from polio.
Who is Ilse (Heumann)?
500
"When I was fourteen I had polio. While I was sick, the doctor told my mother, 'You should hope he dies because if he lives he will be a vegetable.'"
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"When you see me, I hope you see what is possible, where others saw only what was not possible."
Who is Ed Roberts?
500
A figure of speech in which a word imitates the sound associated with an action or an object, effectively mimicking the sound it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Part II of Fahrenheit 451 has this 5-word title, a recurring metaphor symbolizing the difficulty of retaining knowledge and understanding in a society that suppresses truth. The first "S" word in the title represents the mind, and the second "S" word represents information or truth.
What is "The Sieve and the Sand?"
500
Judy Heumann appeared on The Daily Show with this host in 2020 to promote Being Heumann and the Crip Camp documentary. He wrote his own bestselling memoir Born a Crime about growing up in South Africa under apartheid, so he could relate to her desire to become an advocate for change.
Who is Trevor Noah?