American Literature
Grammar
World Literature
Vocabulary
Plays
100
This is the title of the sermon, presented by Johnathan Edwards in 1741, that had strong visual imagery of people being dangled over a fiery pit.
What is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
100
This is the term for a word that substitutes for a noun (such as you or I)
What is a Pronoun
100
This epic poem is the earliest known example of Old English literature.
What is Beowulf?
100
This is a literary term that means word choice.
What is diction?
100
This play is one of the most well known love stories ever written...Love is harsh, some might not make it out alive.
What is Romeo and Juliet
200
In this 1920's novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carroway narrates a memory of his time in West Egg.
What is The Great Gatsby?
200
These two components are necessary to form a complete sentence
What are a subject and a verb
200
Pip is the main character of this Charles Dickens classic
What is Great Expectations
200
This is a literary term where an inanimate object is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
200
This play by Arthur Miller, used court records of the Salem Witch Trial to shed light on this period of American history.
What is The Crucible?
300
In this 1948 short story by Shirley Jackson, a small town struggles with the ethics of a tradition.
What is "The Lottery"?
300
This term describes a sentence error where a comma is place between to independent clauses without a coordinating conjunction.
What is a comma splice?
300
This epic Poem consists of 24 Books and was originally a spoken tale
What is The Odyssey
300
Aberration and Abhorration sound the same but have completely different meanings...This is the term that describes their relationship.
What is a homonym
300
This term is used to define a person or a group of people on stage who speak or sing directly to the audience
What is the Chorus
400
The title of this book, by Paulo Coelho, refers to a person who performs "the art of transmuting metals."
What is The Alchemist?
400
Love, courage, bravery, idea, thought, and childhood are all examples of this type of noun
What is an abstract noun
400
The Poem "Ozymandias," written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, was based on this prominent Egyptian Pharoah who had the longest reign and controlled most powerful empire of ancient Egypt
Who is Ramses the Great (or Ramesses)
400
Denotative meaning of a word refers to its dictionary definition, this term refers to the feelings and associations created by the word--for example - the words slender, thin, and scrawny all have similar dictionary definitions, but are very different in the feelings they produce.
What is connotative meaning
400
"Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive." This person is widely known as history's greatest playwright.
Who is William Shakespeare
500
The setting of this Civil War Era short story by Ambrose Bierce is at a railroad bridge in northern Alabama.
What is "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"?
500
This is a specific kind of conjunction that introduces a clause and is associated with the acronym "A WHITE BUS".
What is a subordinate conjunction?
500
This character was killed by burning alive just outside of London. Pip could not put her out in time.
Who is Miss Havisham
500
This term refers to the act of experiencing something without actually having to do the act. For example being very scared while watching a horror movie without being in any actual danger.
What is Catharsis
500
In this play the protagonist realizes that he not only killed his father, but he also married and had children with his own mother...eeww.
What is Oedipus the King
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