Odyssey and Mockingbird
The names of the two goddesses Odysseus slept with
Circe and Calypso
Famous Shakespearean lines (balcony scene): Romeo sees Juliet emerge and says, "It is the east, and Juliet is the _____." Which is which type of figurative language?
Sun, metaphor
Which piece of punctuation goes before a list or between a blend and a quote if the blend is an independent clause?
A colon :
What does the prefix "mal" mean?
bad
The difference between a simile and a metaphor
Simile uses "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things
Setting (time and place) of Harper Lee's novel
Maycomb, Alabama: 1933-1935
The real-life/ historical counterparts for the characters of Napoleon and Snowball (in that order)
Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky
What types of titles are italicized, and what types of titles are italicized when typing?
Longer pieces like novel titles and movies are italicized, whereas shorter works like poems, short stories, and article titles are in quotation marks.
What does the root word "nomen" mean?
Name
personification, hyperbole
Three categories we analyzed to determine how much power Mayella had
Race, gender, class
Name all six of the named casualties in Romeo and Juliet
Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, Mercutio, Paris, Lady Capulet
Describe the font type and size, spacing, and MLA header requirements for a typed piece. Be specific about the order and date format!
Times New Roman, size 12, double-space. Name, teacher(s), Class, and date (Day month year, no commas)
Are "ambitious" and "complacent" synonyms or antonyms?
Antonyms
State the three rhetorical appeals and briefly explain their function/ in what way they persuade
Ethos is ethics/credibility/trustworthiness/experience
Pathos is through emotions
Logos is through logic/ data/ statistics
Name four separate mythological monsters that Odysseus had to fight or overcome to make it home (from our reading)
Cyclops, sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and/or Laestrygonians
Finish the lyrics! Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland, beasts of ____ ____ ____ ______, hearken to my joyful tidings of the golden future time!
every land and clime
When citing a quote, the period goes outside of the citation, not inside the quotation marks. Which two pieces of ending punctuation should remain inside the quotation marks? (Hint: not comma or ellipses)
Question mark, exclamation mark
What word associated with Romeo and Juliet, that was in one of our vocab bellringers, means "lucky or favorable"?
Auspicious
Type of literary device that has the repeats inital consonant sounds, like "Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers"
Alliteration
Atticus's words of wisdom to Scout about perspective that form the theme of the novel
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
The name of the blood disease that plagued Alexei Romanov, causing Rasputin to be invited into the royal palace
Hemophilia
What types of clauses are separated by a semicolon, AND does a semicolon go before or after a conjunctive adverb (like "however" or "nevertheless) separating those clauses?
Independent, before
What is the difference between apathy, empathy, and sympathy?
Empathy is feeling with someone (relating/sharing emotions), sympathy is feeling for someone (pity/ care), and apathy is a lack of feeling or concern.
A reference to something famous, usually the Bible or mythology
An allusion