A Tale of Two Cities
Paradise Lost
British Literature
Important Terms
Figurative Language
100

The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities

What are Paris and London?

100

The "hero" of Paradise Lost

Who is Satan?

100
Charles Dickens

Who is the author of A Tale of Two Cities?

100

A word that modifies adverbs, adjectives, and verbs

What is an adverb?

100

A figure of speech that draws a comparison between two things

What is a metaphor?

200

The three men who wish to marry Lucie 

Who are Mr. Carton, Mr. Darnay, and Mr. Stryver?

200

The animal Satan disguises himself as

What is a snake/serpent?

200

William Shakespeare

Who is the writer of Henry V?

200

Culpability

What is the word meaning "guilt" or "blame"?

200

The figurative language used in the following sentence: The pretty princess pursued her suitor.

What is alliteration?

300

Mr. Lorry's bodyguard in Paris

Who is Jerry Cruncher?

300

The reason Adam and Eve clothe themselves after eating of the fruit

What is shame?

300

The author of Canterbury Tales

Who is Chaucer?

300

A poetic meter utilizing ten syllables, alternating stressed-unstressed

What is iambic pentameter?

300

The excess (overuse) of coordinating conjunctions in a list

What is polysyndeton?
400

The promise Sydney makes to Lucie

To die for her and anyone she loves

400

The son of Satan

What is Death?
400

The author of Beowulf

Who is anonymous?

400

The 8 parts of speech (must get all 8 to receive credit)

What are nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, conjunctions, interjections, and prepositions? 

400

The figurative language in the following sentence: The clouds cried their eyes out.

What is personification?

500

The servant who requests help from Charles Darnay

Who is Gabelle?

500

The relationship between Satan and Sin

What is daughter and lover?

500

Order the 5 British texts from earliest to most recent

Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, Henry V, Paradise Lost, A Tale of Two Cities

500

What is the difference between omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience?

Omnipotent - all powerful

Omnipresent - all present

Omniscient - all knowing

500

The rhetorical tools used in the first lines of A Tale of Two Cities (2)

What are anaphora and asyndeton?
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