Short Stories
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Authors
Movies
100
What is the name of Maggie's sister in "Everyday Use"?
Who is Dee
100
What is it when you attribute human qualities to inanimate objects, to animals, things or ideas?
What is personification.
100
What do the young couple in "Oh, Oh" see at the end after the train passes by?
What is 50 Hell's Angels.
100
Who is internationally known for his horror books & movies?
Who is Stephen King.
100
What is the 1993 film located in Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis?
What is "Schindler's List".
200
In "Soldier's Home", what is it that Krebs goes and sees before he leaves for Kansas City?
What is his sister Helen's indoor baseball game.
200
What is a comparison of different things by speaking of them as "like" or "as" the same?
What is a simile.
200
What does the author say most people try to do to poems in "Introduction to Poetry"?
What is tie them up and try to get the real meaning out if them.
200
Who is the author of the children's books "Goosebumps"?
Who is R.L. Stine.
200
What is the movie starring Jack Nicholson, where upon arriving at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more dictator than nurse?
What is "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
300
What does IND AFF stand for in "IND AFF"?
What is inordinate affection.
300
What is the decisive moment and turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story?
What is climax.
300
What does the father do to cope with his problem that he is having in his life in "Nighttime Fires"?
What is driving to rich neighborhoods and wait for their houses to burn.
300
Who is the author of the "Harry Potter" series?
Who is J.K. Rowling.
300
What is the 1962 film including Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice.
What is "To Kill A Mockingbird".
400
What is the name of the female that stood by the minister's bedside as he passed away in "The Minister's Vail"?
Who is Elizabeth.
400
What is the naming of a sound by trying to imitate it?
What is Onomatopoeia.
400
What is the name of Doris' street where she lived in "Back When All Was Continuous Chuckles"?
What is Smith Street.
400
Who is the author of the poem from class "l(a"?
Who is E.E. Cummings.
400
What is the 1990 film directed by Harry Hook, where stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery?
What is "Lord of the Flies".
500
What was the house in "The Leaving" built next to?
What is the Mississippi River.
500
What is repeated patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry?
What is a meter.
500
What is the meaning of "Marvell Noir"?
What is not taking the fault for another person's crime, no matter how much you care for them.
500
Who is the author of the short story from class "Summer"?
Who is David Updike.
500
What is the 1981 film starring Meryl Streep where the setting is in 19th century England, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast, whose depression makes her leave him after a short, but passionate affair?
What is "The French Lieutenant's Woman".
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