Fiction 1
Fiction 2
Logical Fallacies
Figurative Language
Sound Devices
100
Who is the protagonist of "Up the Cooley?"
What is Howard McLane
100
Would William McTurg be classified as a round or flat character?
What is flat
100
You shouldn't support President Smith's immigration policy; he is a liar and a flip-flopper.
What is name-calling.
100
Aside from visual imagery, what literary device is present in the following line: "I saw a crowd / a host of golden daffodils / beside the lake beneath the trees / fluttering and dancing in the breeze"
What is personification
100
What is the rhyme scheme? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare sieze the fire?
What is AABB
200
What mood is created by the following description? "An unpaved street, with walled, drab-colored, miserable, rotting wooden buildings; the same--only worse and more squalid--was the town."
What is answers will vary
200
All elderly people are terrible drivers and should have their licenses revoked after the age of 70.
What is sweeping generalization.
200
What literary device is being used in these lines: "They stretched in never-ending line / along the margin of the bay. / Ten thousand saw I at a glance"
What is hyperbole
200
Are the end rhymes masculine or feminine? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare sieze the fire?
What is masculine.
300
What type of imagery is this: "More beautiful still, was the majestic amphitheater of green wooded hills that circled the horizon."
What is visual
300
What tone is best illustrated in this passage? "His mind all day flew ahead of the train to the little town . . . As the train passed the Wisconsin River, with its curiously carved cliffs, its cold, dark, swift-swirling water eating slowly under cedar-clothed banks, Howard began to feel curious little movements of the heart."
What is answer will vary.
300
If you care about your loved ones and the emergency first responders, you will evacuate your home immediately when asked. Do you want your family to have to plan your funeral? Do you want to be the cause of another person’s death because they tried to rescue you when you wouldn’t listen? Please, listen.
What is emotional appeal.
300
What type of imagery is this? "No Nightingale did ever chaunt / more welcome notes to weary bands / . . . / A voice so shrilling ne'er was heard / in spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, / breaking the silence of the seas"
What is auditory
300
What is an example of alliteration? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare sieze the fire?
What is d- "distant deeps" or w- "what wings"
400
What type of narrator is the narrator in "Up the Cooley"
What is third-person limited
400
The following statement can be classified as what part of the plot mountain? "For he was coming back to it all after an absence of ten years."
What is exposition
400
Mitt Romney won the debate. He was clearly victorious over President Obama, and the president definitely lost.
What is circular argument.
400
What literary device is present in this line? "There's a certain Slant of light, / Winter Afternoons- / That oppresses, like the Heft / Of Cathedral Tunes-"
What is a simile
400
What is an example of consonance? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare sieze the fire?
What is t- what, distant, s- deeps, skies, r-dare, aspire
500
What type of characterization is exhibited in the following statement: "Portly, tall, handsomely dressed, and with something unusually winning in his brown mustache and blue eyes, something scholarly suggested by the pinch-nose glasses, something strong in the repose of the head."
What is direct description
500
What type of indirect characterization is exhibited in this line: "Glorious!" he cried involuntarily.
What is portrayal of behavior.
500
"I know I forgot to deposit the check yesterday. However, you never do anything around here. You never take out the trash, help to clean the house, or buy groceries. You don’t do anything except watch television from the moment you get home until it is time for bed. You really need to start contributing to the running of this house."
What is Red Herring
500
What literary device is present in these lines: "When it comes, the Landscape listens- / Shadows-hold their breath-"
What is personification
500
What is an example of assonance? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare sieze the fire?
What is long "i"- fire, thine, eyes
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