Benjamin Button
Eva is Inside Her Cat
Poetry
A Christmas Carol
Miscellaneous
100
Benjamin is born like this
What is old
100
Eva uses this poison to kill herself
What is arsenic?
100
This is what poets use to create feeling and mood
What is imagery?
100
This grumpy Christmas chum experiences ghostly encounters
What is Ebenezer Scrooge?
100
The sun went down and night came on like some cold onset of glaucoma dimming away the world.
What is a simile?
200
This is the college Benjamin and his son both attend.
What is Harvard?
200
The boy is buried beneath this structure
What is a tree?
200
This is the equivalent of a paragraph in a prose text
What is a stanza?
200
This unfortunate employee has even less fortune because of his child, but you wouldn't know it from his undying optimism
What is Bob Cratchit?
200
My life is a clock: I spend all my life carefully putting pieces into place so I can function, but it all ends when the hands stop turning.
What is a metaphor?
300
This is Benjamin's wife's name
What is Hildegarde Moncrief?
300
Eva badly wants to eat this fruit
What is an orange?
300
ABBABBA is an example of this literary device
What is a rhyme scheme?
300
The Cratchit's eat this kind of pudding on Christmas
What is plum pudding?
300
Night covered the plains and laid a blanket over the bed of a slumbering wonder.
What is a personification?
400
This is Benjamin's father's name
What is Roger Button
400
This world event could have inspired Garcia Marquez to write Eva is Inside Her Cat
What is World War II
400
We compared this poem to "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
What is "When You are Old" by William Butler Yeats
400
This ghost is a jolly man who loves everything about Christmas
What is the ghost of Christmas present?
400
Whenever I enter your class, my mind goes GRRR and ARGH and UGGHH and I wanna go POP POP to my brains to avoid sitting in here for endless, miserable hours.
What is onomotopoea?
500
This is the city in which the story takes place
What is Baltimore?
500
This kind of flower is presented in the story
What is a heliotrope
500
Finish this line from a poem by Arseny Tarkovsky "I am a candle..."
What is "...I burned at the feast."
500
Tiny Tim says these last words in the story
What is "God bless us, everyone."
500
Like my man Muhammad from Afghanistan Grew up in Iran, the youngin' runs a neighborhood newsstand A wild Middle Eastern, bomb specialist Initiated, at eleven to be a terrorist He set bombs in bottles of champagne And when people popped the cork, they lost half they brains
What is assonance?
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