"room" and "storm" is an example of this device in Dickinson's poem "I heard a Fly Buzz"
What is slant rhyme?
100
This TIME PERIOD produced writing that was inventive, bold, fragmented, and thought-provoking, relying on the reader to form opinions.
What is Modernism?
100
These couples in the novel The Great Gatsby are ALL romantically involved (list them)
Who are Nick and Jordan, Gatsby and Daisy, Daisy and Tom, and Tom and Myrtle?
100
This character is killed by Lennie because he was trying to hush him or her.
Who is Curley's wife?
100
This is the perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
200
This author wrote the story "Story of an Hour"
Who is Kate Chopin?
200
"The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" is this type of poem
What is dramatic monologue?
200
This character is the only one who is NOT destroyed as a result of Daisy and Tom's carelessness.
Who is Nick?
200
This statement, from this character, foreshadows George's decision to shoot Lennie.
What is Candy's statement that "I should've shot that dog myself"?
200
A character's unique way of speaking is called this.
What is idiom?
300
Female protagonists from this writer AND time are resilient and spirited.
What is Harlem Renaissance (and Zora Neale Hurston)?
300
Stream of consciousness is a narrative technique in which thoughts are presented as if they were coming from this.
What is the character's mind?
300
The impossibility of Gatsby's dream is symbolized by his repeated action of doing this.
What is reaching for the green light?
300
To prevent Lennie from being hurt by Curley.
What is the primary reason for George shooting Lennie?
300
Word choice
What is diction?
400
This is when the narrator uses third person point of view, but does NOT have access to ALL characters' thoughts.
What is limited third person point of view?
400
This type of poetry employs clear, concrete, sensory "word pictures".
What is Imagist poetry (or Imagism)?
400
Reading the book Rise of the Coloured Empires by "this man Goddard" best exemplifies this character's racist, bigoted beliefs.
Who is Tom?
400
This character's question, "What do you suppose is eatin' them two?" demonstrates his lack of empathy and understanding.
Who is Carlson?
400
Character's reasons for his or her thoughts, actions, or speech.
What is motive?
500
"Git down offa dat gate-post! You lil sow, you. Git down!... They's gowine lynch you get... Youse too brazen to live long."
This excerpt demonstrates the author's approach to this.
What is Black English vernacular (BEV)?
500
E.E. Cummings's poems "old age sticks" and "anyone lived in a pretty how town" are considered these types of poems.
What are concrete poems?
500
F. Scott Fitzgerald coined this term about The Roaring Twenties.
What is the Jazz Age?
500
Each of these three characters suffer from prejudice in the novel.
Who are Lennie, Curley's wife, and Crooks?
500
When outside events (history, mythology, etc.) with which the reader is assumed to be familiar, are referenced in a piece of writing.