Stories
Why Susan Hinton changed her name to S.E. Hinton when she published The Outsiders.
What is to sound like a man's name?
Romeo's father/ mentor figure.
Who is Friar Lawrence?
Achilles' mother made him invincible by dipping him in a magical river everywhere except his _________.
What is "heel"?
At lunch with the Finch's, Walter Cunningham "drowns" his meal in this condiment.
What is "syrup"?
The motif that begins with this statement, "Whatever you do, don't do this one thing"
What is The One Forbidden Thing?
The temperature outside when the man in To Build a Fire made his journey.
What is 75 degrees below zero?
How long Romeo and Juliet knew each other before getting engaged.
What is a few hours?
Athena gave Perseus a sword that never needs to be ______________.
What is "sharpened"?
Who Scout asked Mr. Cunningham about that kept him and the Old Sarum crew from lynching Tom.
Who is Walter Cunningham?
The motif that occurs whenever the hero is killed.
What is Betrayal?
How the man in To Build a Fire planned to use the dog to save his hands.
What is cut it open and bury his hands in it?
Capulet has planned for Juliet to marry this boring noble.
Who is Paris?
The punishment Poseidon meted out to King Minos of Crete for not sacrificing his gift of a bull back to the sea.
What is made the bull go crazy and his wife fall in love with it?
The man who shot the "mad dog" in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Who is Atticus Finch?
The motif given to the hero by the Wise Old Man, best represented by a weapon or tool only the hero can use (like Thor's hammer, Odysseus's bow, Cinderella's slipper)
What is The Boon?
The accident that injured the throat of the little boy in "A Worn Path".
What is swallowed Lye?
The type of figurative language Mercutio uses to describe his mortal wound as "not so deep as a well, nor as wide as a church door, but 'twill serve" (choose either metaphor, simile, pun, hyperbole, personification, understatement, or allusion)
What is "understatement"?
How Hercules cleaned out the 10,000 head Aegean stables.
What is diverted 2 rivers?
Why Walter Cunningham refused to take a quarter from Miss Caroline to pay for his lunch.
What is he couldn't pay it back?
The motif represented by the hoard of gold the dragon guards or the riches the Phaeacians bestow on Odysseus at hearing his story.
What is The Treasure Hard to Attain?
The lie Sister Aloysius told that forced Father Flynn to request a transfer.
What is that she had called his prior parish and spoke to a nun?
What Romeo compared his lips to in his shared sonnet with Juliet.
What is "two blushing pilgrims"?
How Hercules kept the Hydra from growing heads.
What is he got Aeolus to burn the wounds?
The name of Tom Robinson's wife in To Kill a Mockingbird?
What is Helen?
The Motif wherein a hero is born with 2 sets of parents.
What is Dual Descent?