Pearls before Swine
This character's name translates to "little Coyote" when translated to English from Spanish.
Who is Coyotito?
This part of speech can be a person, place, thing, or idea and answers the question: "who or what?"
What is a noun?
Mr. Crew has worn this color more than any other color this semester.
What is blue?
This master of the macabre is famous for short stories like The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Tell Tale Heart.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This literary device uses symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
What is symbolism?
Name one thing Kino plans on buying after he sells the Pearl.
What is a wedding, new clothes, a new harpoon, a rifle, or an education for Coyotito?
Identify all adjectives (excluding articles) in the following sentence:
My favorite Uncle was a Marine, but now works for a big electric company in Georgia's capital city Atlanta.
What are My, favorite, big, electric, Georgia's, and capital.
True or False: Salem Academy's original colors used to be yellow and green.
What is: True?
This wacky writer is credited for creating nonsense literature and is best known as the author of Alice and Wonderland and Jabberwocky.
Who is Lewis Carroll?
An earthly story with a heavenly meaning, famously taught by Jesus.
What is a parable?
This is the highest offer Kino gets from the pearl dealers.
What is 1,500 pesos?
Identify the verbal and its type in this sentence:
I thought the screeching came from a dying bird outside, but it was just Dylan watching Curry highlights.
What is screeching/a gerund?
This university won the last PAC-10 Conference title in 2010 before it became the PAC-12.
Who is the University of Oregon?
Maybe the most well known writer of short stories, William Sydney Porter used this pseudonym when publishing his written works.
What is O. Henry?
The hidden meaning of a text that is not directly stated or shown.
What is subtext?
The number of men Kino kills by the end of the novella.
What is four?
This type of verb connects the subject to the complement which comes after it.
What is a linking verb?
This is Mr. Crew's favorite fast-food spot.
Where is Taco Bell?
A Puritan woman, this author's poems were published by her brother-in-law posthumously.
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
This literary period is acknowledged as a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century, characterized chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions.
What is Romanticism?
Juana uses this as a poultice to treat Coyotito's scorpion sting before the doctor arrives.
What is seaweed?
These are the lyrics to the tune that lists the being verbs in an easy to remember melody.
(Sing the Being Verbs Song)
What are "Am, Is, Are, Was, Were, Be, Being, Been, Has, Have, Had, Do, Does, Did, Shall, Will, Should, Would, May, Might, Must, Can... May, Might, Must, Can, and Could?"
The total amount of times Mr. Crew has handed out a detention this semester.
What is one?
A Frenchman, this gentleman wrote Two Friends, a story which follows a pair of men throughout a day in the life amidst the Franco-Prussian War.
Who is Guy de Maupassant?
Name one type of irony discussed in class and give an example of it.
What is dramatic, situational, or verbal?