Identify the correct response:
A. I don't know Pat as well as her.
B. I don't know Pat as well as she.
What is B
100
Identify the lit term:
a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes
What is personification
100
Identify the literary device:
interruptions that writers use to insert past events in order to provide background or context to the current events of a narrative.
What are flashbacks
100
O loving hate!... O heavy lightness!
What is oxymoron
100
the atmosphere a writer creates for a reader to feel
ex. calm or eerie
What is mood
200
Identify the correct sentence:
A. Mr. Eldred was more helpful than he.
B. Mr. Eldred was more helpful than him.
What is A
200
Identify the literary device:
when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds
What is assonance
200
Identify the literary term:
a tying up of loose ends
What is denouement
200
buzz
What is onomatopoeia
200
Holden's _____________ in The Catcher in the Rye is sarcastic most of the time.
What is tone
300
Identify the correct sentence:
A. Are you willing to trust Carla more than me?
B. I can understand her better than her.
C. Are they as fast as us?
D. The race proved that Mason could not stand the pace as well as he.
What is D
300
Identify the literary device:
an object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work
What is motif
300
Identify the literary device:
technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.
What is juxtaposition
300
Whether in class, at work or at home, Shasta was always busy.
What is parallelism
300
The Catcher in the Rye is an example of this.
What is bildungsroman
400
Identify the correct sentence:
A: He resents you being more popular than he is.
B: He resents your being more popular than he is.
What is B
400
Identify the literary device:
polite, indirect expressions which replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant.
What is euphemism
400
Identify the literary term:
the event that introduces the conflict in a literary work
What is inciting incident
400
when a speaker speaks something contradictory to what he intends to
(a difference between what is said and what is meant)
What is verbal irony
400
You are becoming a little thin on top (bald).
What is euphemism
500
Identify the correct sentence:
A. They objected to the youngest girl's being given the command position.
B. What do you think about him buying such an expensive car.
C. We were all grateful for Jane taking on the responsibility for the party.
D. Most of the members paid their dues without me asking them.
What is A
500
Identify the lit term:
the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter.
What is parallelism
500
Identify the literary term:
plot device for creating situations where audience knows more about the situations, the causes of conflicts and their resolutions before leading characters or actors
What is dramatic irony
500
Allie's death is this in The Catcher in the Rye.
What is the antecedent action
500
The age demanded that we sing
The age demanded that we flow
The age demanded that we dance