Poetry
In a poem by Sylvia Plath, this inanimate object is personified.
What is a mirror?
This term is used for language that is "wrong for the purpose."
What is "malapropism"?
According to Faber, books have this.
What is texture?
These three terms from the novel are considered political euphemisms/doublespeak. (There are at least five possible answers--you only need three to earn the points.)
What are donor/donation, carer, complete, recovery center, guardian?
"People are essentially good and will help each other in times of need" is this type of claim.
What is a fact claim?
In a poem by Carolyn Forche, a colonel from El Salvador empties a bag of these on a kitchen table.
What are human ears?
This term describes a pair of syllables in which the first syllable is unstressed and the second is stressed.
What is an iamb?
According to Neil Gaiman, works of speculative answer one or more of these THREE questions.
What are "what if," "if only," and "if this goes on"?
This term is used for the person the clones were modeled on.
What is a possible?
Mildred wants to buy this, but it costs half of Montag's yearly salary.
What is a fourth parlor wall?
In a very long poem by T.S. Eliot, J. Alfred Prufrock complains about never being able to find this.
What is a girlfriend/wife?
These lines of poetry have five pair of syllables.
What is pentameter?
Montag's journey can be compared to this famous philosophical concept.
What is the allegory of the cave?
These are the five major types of claims we covered in class.
What are definition, fact, cause, value, and policy?
When writing December 15th, 2025 in MLA format, this goes first.
What is the date/number 15?
This term is used for when you put two opposite/contrasting things side-by-side to draw attention to their differences.
What is juxtaposition?
A Shakespearean sonnet has three of these and one of these.
What are quatrains and a couplet?
According to the news stations in chapter 3, Montag was killed by this.
What is the mechanical hound?
The items in Madame's gallery were supposed to prove the clones had this.
What is a soul?
This imagery symbolizes the male characters' greatest fear in Much Ado about Nothing.
What are horns growing out of a man's head?
The idea that we can't know an author's intentions is also known as this.
This term is used for an extended speech heard by other characters.
What is a monologue?
According to the poem "Dover Beach," people are losing this.
What is their religious faith?
This member of the core friend group dies second.
Who is Tommy?
The term "banality of evil" was coined by this German-born philosopher.
Who is Hannah Arendt?