Romeo used to be inlove with another girl. What was her name?
Who is Rosaline
100
What is the main difference between a metaphor and a simile?
What is a simile uses "like" or "as" and a metaphor does not.
100
What is an oxymoron and give an example.
What is a figure of speech that uses contradictory terms in conjunction with each other (ex. jumbo shrimp, falsely true)
200
What is a lyric poem?
A poem that expresses personal emotions in the first person, often melodically.
200
Who is the main antagonist of Les Mis?
Who is Javert.
200
What are the names of the two families fighting in the play and which side do the 2 main characters belong to?
Who are the Capulets and the Montagues (Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet)
200
What is personification and give an example.
What is giving human characteristics to inanimate objects. Ex. the sky cried rain drops, the pencil danced across the paper, etc.
200
What is an allusion?
What is a reference to a historical place, event, or text.
300
What is the meter that Shakespeare wrote in?
What is iambic pentameter.
300
Why does Fantine give Cosette away?
What is because she could not afford to keep her and thought she would have a better life with the innkeepers.
300
What type of play is Romeo and Juliet?
What is a tragedy
300
Define an apostrophe poem.
What is a poem in which the speaker addresses an object that is not actually there. (ex. Macbeth talks to a dagger, "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star)
300
What is a paradox and give an example
What is a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true. (example: deafening silence
400
Name 2 things that a Shakespearean sonnet needs to have?
What is 14 lines, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme, iambic pentameter, rhyming couplets at the end, etc.
400
Give an example of how one character changes throughout the book/movie.
What is Fantine (innocent to not) Jon Val Jean (unjust to just) Javert (evil to repentant)
400
What do we call the beginning or introduction of each act?
What is the prologue
400
What is hyperbole and give an example
What is excessive exaggeration for poetic effect. An example would be "I am so hungry, I could eat a horse!"
400
The author's attitude towards the subject is the definition of...
What is tone
500
Give 3 examples of figurative language.
What is personification, hyperbole, simile, metaphor, imagery, oxymoron, allusion, idiom, etc.
500
What is one theme of Les Mis? Explain how you know this
What is forgiveness, freedom, etc.
500
What is one theme we have seen so far in Romeo and Juliet and tell me how you know.
What is the power of true love, one cannot escape his fate
500
True or False: "It is the east and Juliet is the sun..." is an example of a simile.
What is false. It is a metaphor.
500
The arrangement of words in a sentence is called...