Raisin in the Sun
In the play, this person loses all the families money
Who is Walter Lee Younger?
This weapon is what the men use to blind the Cyclops.
What is a hot wooden stake?
Who is William Shakespeare?
What is 'blank verse"?
This is a figure of speech that refers to a well-known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the reader's mind.
What is an Allusion?
This is where the $10,000 dollars came from .
What is Big Walter's life insurance policy?
This creature is responsible for eating 6 of Odysseus' Men.
Who is Scylla?
This place is where Romeo and Juliet first meet.
What is the Capulet party?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration
The following is an example of this:
It's raining cats and dogs outside!
What is a hyperbole?
This is how Ruth reacts to learning about Mama putting a down payment on a house in Clyborne Park.
What is she is super excited and happy?
This reason is why the Lotus Eaters were such a threat to Odysseus and his men.
The Lotus flower they eat makes the men forget about home.
This reason is why Friar Lawrence decides to marry Romeo and Juliet.
What is 'ending the family feud'?
This word means poetry without a rhyme scheme or meter.
What is free verse?
In the Odyssey, the story starts here.
What is 'in Medias res" or in the middle of things?
This poem is the inspiration for the play "A Raisin in the Sun"
What is "Harlem" by Langston Hughes?
When Odysseus is on his journey, this god causes problems for Odysseus on the Seas.
Who is Poseidon?
This plan is how the Friar thinks he can prevent Juliet's marriage to Paris.
What is 'faking Juliet's death'?
The following is an example of this term:
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend me your ears!
What is iambic pentameter?
Shakespeare commonly wrote his plays in this verse form (not to be confused with meter).
What is blank verse?
Lorraine Hansberry
This test is what Penelope gives to the suitors to determine her next husband, which Odysseus alone passes.
What is stringing the king's bow and shooting an arrow through multiple rings on axe handles?
This character is Tybalt's foil.
Who is Mercutio?
This terms refers to poetry where the end of the lines within a poem rhyme.
What is external rhyme?
In "A Raisin in the Sun" the setting is here.