It Figures
Caul Me Maybe
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Poetry? Oh Noetry
Prove It!
100
The following lines use this type of figurative language: "I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,/On a white heal-all, holding up a moth/Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth -" (200)
What is a simile?
100
Holden's relationship to children can be compared to this animal. (200)
What are the ducks in the lagoon?
100
This character wears headphones and heavy weights as a handicap to make his above average intelligence and strength fair when at home watching TV. (200)
Who is George Bergeron?
100
The following lines use this structural feature common to poetry: "Because I could not stop for Death -/He kindly stopped for me -/The Carriage held just Ourselves -/And Immortality." (200)
What is rhyme?
100
You must prove this with quotes from different sources. (200)
What is a thesis statement?
200
The following lines use this figure of speech three times: "Assorted characters of death and blight/Mixed ready to begin the morning right,/Like the ingredients of a witches' broth -/A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,/And dead wings carried like a paper kite." (400)
What is a simile?
200
This type of story is about a young boy growing to maturity. (400)
What is a bildungsroman?
200
This character doesn't wear any handicaps because she is perfectly average. (400)
Who is Hazel Bergeron?
200
The speaker describes the following scene in this tone: "We slowly drove - He knew no haste/And I had put away/My labor and my leisure too,/For his Civility -". (400)
What is calm?
200
This following quote is missing this: "She just liked the way they looked in the back row." (400)
What is a parenthetical citation?
300
The following is an example of what type of figure of speech: "What had that flower to do with being white,/The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?" (600)
What is personification?
300
The title, "The Catcher in the Rye," is a mistranslation of this song lyric. (600)
What is "if a body meet/kiss a body comin' through the rye"?
300
The events described in "The Lottery" are to Old Man Warner important because "lottery in June, corn heavy soon," imply that this type of post-apocalyptic event most likely has taken place. (600)
What is a natural disaster/famine or human decline?
300
The following lines uses an example of this type of figurative language: "We passed the School, where Children strove/At Recess - in the Ring -/We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain -/We passed the Setting Sun.". (600)
What is personification?
300
This structures the essay's central argument and all of its supporting details. (600)
What is a thesis statement?
400
The following lines represent this type of figurative language: "What brought the kindred spider to that height,/Then steered the white moth thither in the night?/ What but design of darkness to appall?-/If design govern in a thing so small." (800)
What is a metaphor?
400
Holden's red hunting hat represents this detached emotion. (800)
What is alienation or isolation?
400
Henry David Thoreau, Raplh Waldo Emerson and John Brown are included in "March" to add a sense of this. (800)
What is historical context?
400
The following lines have three examples of this figure of speech: "Or rather - He passed us -/The Dews drew quivering and chill -/For only Gossamer, my Gown -/My Tippet - only Tulle -". (800)
What is alliteration?
400
The following is a citation for these: (Salinger 3)...(8). (800)
What are two consecutive quotes from the same author?
500
The concept of intelligent design expressed in Frost's poem "Design" is this type of extended figurative language. (1000)
What is a metaphor or extended metaphor?
500
Holden fantasizes this after his encounter with Sunny and Maurice. (1000)
What is being shot?
500
"Harrisson Bergeron" is considered this because it uses humor to make an idea look ridiculous. (1000)
What is parody or satire?
500
Having gone with the personification of Death, the speaker seems to be describing this setting in the final two stanzas of the poem: "We paused before a House that seemed/A swelling of the Ground -/The Roof was scarcely visible -/The Cornice in - in the Ground -/Since then - 'tis Centuries - and yet/Feels shorter than the Day/I first surmised the Horses' Heads/Were toward Eternity." (1000)
What is her own death?
500
Double Jeopardy! Wager up to half your points and write your team name and answer on the provided piece of paper. Topic Headings, Titles and Headers
Heading shold be justified left in this order: name, teacher, class, date; header should be justified right last name and page number (optional on first page); title should be centered and written normally without underlined, italicized or bold text (unless it contains the title of a text); all double spaced.
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