Quotes
"Don't want no plate. Just wanna eat with my hands"
What is Fences? (page 48)
The number of people on the 11th-grade English team.
What is 4?
The length at which Jacobs lived in her den.
The location in which the Salem Witch Trials took place
Where is Salem?
"I received letters from the City of Iniquity" leverages this literary device.
What is a metaphor?
"In view of these things, why are ye silent, ye free men and women of the north? Why do your tongues falter in maintenance of the right?"
Who is Jacobs? (page 439)
Allen's job title.
What is the Director of the Innovative Teacher Program?
The species of animal whose blood was reportedly drunk by the girls during The Crucible?
What is a chicken?
The year in which MLB added the Negro League statistics into official records.
2020
This literary device, traditionally an argumentative tactic, is Latin for "against the man".
What is ad hominem?
"I wanted to say something but couldn’t. I didn’t know what to say."
What is There There? (page 300)
Alexa taught this grade in Peru.
What is the 3rd grade?
The name of the hotel that Jacobs stays in during her trip in London.
The year in which the Salem Witch Trials took place.
When is 1692?
This literary device places something associated with a particular time in history in the wrong period.
What is anachronism?
"I give them fifty dollars and they let him go."
What is Fences? (Page 59)
The name of Ariel's daughter.
Who is Anna?
The name of Bill Davis' girlfriend
Karen
This many hundred-thousand people lived in New York in 1850
What is 600,000?
A phrase or expression in which the same thing is said twice in different words.
What is a tautology?
"Godspeed the day! Till then, and ever."
What is The Life of Fredrick Douglass? (page 313)
The name of Sarah's dog.
What is Pearl.
The number of rows of breathing holes did Jacobs bore in her attic.
What number is 3?
The team that won the World Series during the time that Fences was set
What is the Milwaukee Braves.
This literary device is an analog for personification, except for other members of the animal kingdom.
What is zoomorphism?