Romeo & Juliet
Who wrote Romeo & Juliet?
William Shakespeare
Who wrote The Outsiders?
S.E Hinton
What is the technique which involves an object being made to stand out or draw attention through colour, placement or size?
Salience
What does the word 'grotesque' mean?
Describing something that is strange, ugly, or unnatural in a way that causes shock or disgust.
What is a simile?
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid using 'like' 'than' or 'as'
What is the name of the two families?
The Montagues and the Capulets
Who are the three brothers in the novel?
Sodapop, Ponyboy and Darry
Words such as 'crucial', 'must', 'will' and 'absolutely' are examples of what persuasive technique?
High Modality
What does the word myriad mean?
a countless or extremely great number of people or things.
What is symbolism?
the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
Who killed Tybalt?
Romeo
What is the name of the coming of age genre convention Harsid repeated 1204975 times throughout class this year?
Loss of innocence
What is the name of the technique where weather is used to symbolically reflect mood or events within a story?
Pathetic Fallacy
What does the word 'antipathy' mean?
a strong feeling of dislike
What is alliteration
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is the name of the technique where a character speaks directly to the audience and conveys their inner thoughts?
Soliloquy
What happened to Ponyboy's parents?
They were killed in a car crash
"Why, then, O brawling love, O loving hate." is an example of what technique?
Oxymoron
What does the word 'ephemeral' mean?
lasting for a very short time
What is enjambment?
(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
What is dramatic irony?
A literary device by which the audience's or reader's understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters.
What book does Ponyboy read to Johnny during the novel?
Gone with the Wind
What does vernacular mean?
Vernacular (pronounced ver-NACK-you-lar) is everyday speech. It's just the way people talk in day-to-day life. The opposite of vernacular is formal writing.
What does the word 'ubiquitous' mean?
present, appearing, or found everywhere.
What is concrete poetry?
concrete poetry, poetry in which the poet's intent is conveyed by graphic patterns of letters, words, or symbols rather than by the meaning of words in conventional arrangement.