Poetry
A Christmas Carol
Short Stories
Non Fiction/Compostion
Wildcard
100
This is the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme;
What is rhyme scheme?
100
How does the following quote characterize and what type of characterization is being used: Scrooge, "What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?"
What is indirect characterization? He is characterized as stingy or greedy.
100
The "item" found in the short story the Scarlet Ibis that is symbolic of the character Doodle. Be prepare to describe how the "item" is symbolic of Doodle
What is The Scarlet Ibis? Due to its redness, uniqueness, and fragility.
100
A speech delivered at the Lincoln Monument on August 28th 1963 to call to action America against discrimination.
What is MLK's I have a Dream Speech?
100
This is a comparison made using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
This was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement",
What is The Harlem Renaissance?
200
The character being describe and explain the symbolic meaning of the quote: "It wore a tunic of the purest white, and round its waist was bound a lustrous belt, the sheen of which was beautiful. It held a branch of fresh green holly in its hand; and, in singular contradiction of that wintry emblem, had its dress trimmed with summer flowers. But the strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light"
Who is the Ghost of Christmas Past? The quote describes the character to resemble a candle, which will be used to illuminate Scrooge's past.
200
The MAJOR CONFLICT found in the short story Through the Tunnel.
What is Man vs. Self?
200
These two items must be present in all persuasive essay introductions!
What are your opinion and why your opinion is right!
200
This is an extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
300
This recording artist wrote and performed "Strange Fruit", a protest song which became one of her standards and was made famous with her 1939 recording.
Who is Billie Holiday
300
The literary technique used in naming the setting "Ship Trap Island"
What is foreshadowing?
300
When answering an Open Ended Question one must end their response with one of these three things.
What is Reflection/Reconnect text to text, text to self, text to world?
300
A play on words.
What is a pun?
400
This writer was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. Some of the more famous works include, Scottsboro Limited, "A Dream Deferred", and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".
Who is Langston Hughes
400
The irony present in the fourth Stave when Scrooge is shown his future by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, but is unaware the man people are talking about happens to be him
What is dramatic irony
400
When naming a character Mr. Ha Ha. because the character never smiles or laughs is a practice in what type of Irony?
What is situational irony?
400
These three items are needed when citing from a text.
What is context, direct quote, and explanation of the quote?
400
When items are placed together for the effect of contrast.
What is juxtaposition?
500
These were racial segregation laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 in the United States at the state and local level. They mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans.
What were the Jim Crowe Laws?
500
The period of Literature that Charles Dickens wrote his novella "A Christmas Carol", this literary period is named after the reigning queen of England at the time.
What is the Victorian Period.
500
This is the antagonist in Saki's The Interlopers
What are the wolves?
500
Each body paragraph should start with one of these words.
What is a Transition Word? HENCE DUH!
500
The literary device being used: “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
What is Assonance?
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