Margot uses this literary device in an attempt to help her classmates understand the effects of the sun on Earth.
What is (a) simile?
100
The theme of the mob mentality is most recognizable in this teleplay by Rod Sterling.
What is "The Monsters are due on Maple Street"?
100
Rod Sterling's narration at the start of the teleplay "The Monsters are due on Maple Street" is a text book example of this point in the plot.
What is the exposition?
100
Nature plays an important conflict role in this science fiction work we read this quarter.
What is "All Summer in a Day"?
100
To covet, in Shakespeare's "St. Crispin's Day Speech," means to do this.
What is to desire?
200
This literary device is being used when Margot ends up being the only student to not see the sun in Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day."
What is irony?
200
Following orders is the name of the game in this timeless poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
What is "The Charge of the Light Brigade"?
200
The plot reaches its apex at this point in traditional literature.
What is the climax?
200
The neighborhood's response to the overflowing garbage at Sarah's house is an example of this type of character conflict.
What is man vs. society?
200
While not too keen on taking out the garbage, Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout has to "scour the pots and scrape the pans"; with "to scour" most nearly resembling this verb.
What is to scrub?
300
When Henry V says "he who sheds his blood this day shall be my brother," he's actually creating this popular literary device.
What is (a) metaphor?
300
Hope is what gets students through a special Venusian day in this famous short story.
What is "All Summer in a Day"?
300
When the King begins his speech following Westmorland's comment about the "ten-thousand men in England that do no work to-day," this point of the plot begins.
What is the rising action?
300
William and Margot's conflicting interests are a prime example of this character conflict.
What is man vs. man?
300
Aside from choosing between "cold or hot," countries in this poem may or may not also give "consent or not."
What is "The Enemy"?
400
"Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout" is an example of this type of figurative language?
What is alliteration?
400
This theme is key in Shakespeare's "St. Crispin's Day" speech, especially since Henry holds it in such high regard.
What is honor?
400
The "Spring thaw" of Alice Walker's poem "The Enemy" is representative of this point in the plot line, especially when considering the poem's historical background.
What is the falling action?
400
When writing about nations at war, Alfred Lord Tennyson is illustrating this character conflict in his poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
What is man vs. society?
400
Lord Tennyson felt that the Light Brigade could be considered this for their steadfast bravery.
What is noble?
500
It's this work by Shel Silverstein that features endless hyperbole regarding a growing mass of garbage.
What is "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out"?
500
Citizenship is a driving theme in this poem based on the Siege of Leningrad in 1941.
What is "The Enemy"?
500
Margot's acceptance of Willaim's flowers at the end of the filmed version of Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day" is an example of this plot point.
What is the resolution?
500
"He who hath no stomach to this fight" refers to this character conflict in Shakespeare's "St. Crispin's Day" speech.
What is man vs. self?
500
This word represents the quality that Henry V thought most valuable in Shakespeare's "St. Crispin's Day Speech."