Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck.
What was the period of economic turmoil in 1930s America known as?
Great Depression
What is personification?
Giving something non-human human qualities
What do we call a "sentence" in poetry?
A line
Who wrote A Christmas Carol?
Charles Dickens
Publication Date
1937
Setting - Bonus 100 points for city
California
Soledad - Spanish for solitude
"In his dark room he is finally alone/"
War Photographer
What type of poem contains 14 lines?
A sonnet
"Who's there?"
Hamlet
Name Six Characters
Lennie, George, Curley, Crooks, Slim, Candy, Carlson (Curley's wife - unnamed)
How long did the Great Depression last?
10 years - 1928-1939
"Once upon a schooltime/"
Half-Past Two, U.A Fanthorpe
What is a volta?
Change in tone at the end of a sonnet
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
George Orwell, 1984
Who cared for Lennie before George?
Aunt Clara
What animal does Lennie hallucinate at the end of the novel?
A giant rabbit telling him that he's not fit to take care of rabbits and that George will beat him and leave him.
How do we show a line break in poetry?
/
"Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me..."
Piano
How many ghosts visit Scrooge in A Christmas Carol?
4 - Marley, Past, Present, Future
What poem does the title Of Mice and Men come from?
Robert Burns, "To a Mouse", in which the poet regrets accidentally destroying a Mouse's Nest
What day does the novel end on?
Sunday
What is a caesura?
A pause created through punctuation or structure
What is a spondee?
A metrical foot consisting of TWO stressed syllables - e.g. headache, childhood, heyday
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way"
Anna Karenina: Leo Tolstoy