Shorter Literary Works
Two of the activities we did at centers before reading "Flowers for Algernon."
What are (any two of these): maze race, ink blot test, multiple intelligence test, nonverbal test questions, Stroop Effect test (color words), and a "R3AD1NG" test.
The first name and last name of the lawyer who defended Tom Robinson in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
Who is Atticus Finch?
two characteristics of a sonnet
What are 14 lines, written in iambic pentameter?
It's the acronym that helps us remember what to include in the first paragraph of a literary response or essay.
What is TAG (title of literary work, author, genre)?
They are the eight parts of speech.
What are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, interjection and conjunction?
In "The Tell-Tale Heart," it was the "thing" about the old man that really disturbed and annoyed the narrator.
What was his "Evil Eye?"
It's the name of the fictional town in which the events of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD take place.
What is Maycomb, Alabama?
It's like a hearbeat... (duh-DUM) in which the second syllable is stressed.
What is an iamb?
BLOG is an abbreviation for it.
What is "WEB LOG?"
They are three verbs that can be both action verbs and linking verbs.
What are "smell," "grow," and "look?" (other responses may be acceptable)
It's the first and last name of the main character in "Flowers for Algernon."
What is Charlie Gordon?
While traveling to Auschwitz, she was the woman in the train with Eliezer who kept screaming about fire.
Who was Madame Schachter?
It's the repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry.
What is assonance?
The difference between "third-person limited" and "third-person omniscient" points of view.
What is: one point of view (limited) takes the reader into the thoughts and feelings of one character and the other (omniscient) gives the reader the thoughts and feelings of ALL characters?
It's the difference between a phrase and a clause.
What is: a clause contains both a subject and a predicate; a phrase contains EITHER a subject or a predicate, but not both?
What is that he had been killed in a car accident on the Brooklyn Bridge?
the story in which a son comes back to life
What is "The Monkey's Paw?"
It's evident when symbolism and analogies are carried throughout an entire poem, such as in "O, Captain, My Captain."
What is an extended metaphor?
the five elements of the acronym TWIST that can help us analyze literary works.
What are TONE, WORD CHOICE, IMAGERY, STYLE, and THEME?
It's the type of conjunctions sometimes recalled with the acronym ABBI SAW A WUWU.
What are subordinating conjunctions?
They were the famous comedians who performed the comedy skit "Who's on First."
Who were (Bud) Abbott and (Lou) Costello?
In TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, it was Scout's full given name.
What is Jean Louise Finch?
Epic and ballads are two types of poems in this genre.
What is narrative poetry?
It's the art of speaking or writing effectively in order to inform, persuade or motivate particular audiences.
What is rhetoric?
three of the words we wrote on TONE CARDS at the beginning of the year
What are (any three of these):?
ominous, wistful, apprehensive, lighthearted, solemn, mournful, sanguine, nostalgic, matter-of-fact, disbelieving, awestruck, condescending, disdainful,