Books/Characters
What is The Odyssey?
This author is a world-famous comedian.
Who is Trevor Noah?
This is what G-S-T stands for.
What is General-Specific-Thesis?
A comparison between two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This school-wide competition requires all FHS students to memorize a poem.
What is Poetry Out Loud?
This was first performed at the Globe Theater in the year 1600.
What is Much Ado About Nothing?
This author was inspired by her experiences growing up in a working-class neighborhood in Chicago.
Every thesis statement needs to include these things.
A defensible stance and three reasons.
These are the spaces between panels in a graphic novel.
What are gutters?
This is the prequel to The Odyssey.
What is The Iliad?
Before the events of the novel, this character led a group of choir boys. (Name the character and book.)
Who is Jack from Lord of the Flies?
This is the original writer of The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
What is wrong with this MLA in-text citation?
When talking about the Beast, Simon's wisdom is on clear display when he states, "Maybe it's only us" (Golding, 72).
There is no comma needed in MLA in-text citations.
A short, descriptive literary sketch of a particular feeling or moment in time.
What is a vignette?
Trevor Noah hosted this popular comedy show for seven years.
What is The Daily Show?
One storyline in this book was inspired by the 80s movie 16 Candles.
What is American Born Chinese?
This author was a teacher before he became a writer.
Who is William Golding?
What is missing from the bolded portion of this paragraph?
Esperanza demonstrates her growing appreciation for her house on Mango Street in the final vignette. "They will not know I have gone away to come back." By saying that she will return to Mango Street, Esperanza reveals that even though she wishes to leave, she respects the place enough to want to return and help others move on.
Context, introductory phrase, MLA citation.
A quote that appears at the beginning of a book. (For example, Born a Crime used South Africa's "Immorality Act.")
What is an epigraph?
The story of Sun Wukong comes from this 16th-century novel.
What is Journey to the West?
This character's last name is Italian for "mute" or "silent." (Name both the book and the character.)
Who is Melinda Sordino from Speak?
This author gave his protagonist a name that was very similar to his own.
Who is Gene Luen Yang?
How could this writer improve the bolded portion of this paragraph?
Jack's change in appearance in Lord of the Flies reveal his descent into savagery. For example, Golding writes, “the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness” (Golding 43). This quote shows that Jack is changing because of how he is wearing the mask.
Something about how the analysis should connect back to the topic sentence.
The kind of meaning a word has beyond its dictionary definition.
What is connotation OR connotative meaning?
This famous landmark bears an inscription of Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Colossus."
What is the Statue of Liberty?