Shakespeare
The form of poem that Shakespeare used most often.
What is the sonnet?
Descriptive language that engages the senses in a story, poem, or other literary work.
What is imagery?
Tom's wife and Tom's mistress.
Who are Daisy and Myrtle?
The seventh and most important commandment in Animal Farm.
What is "All animals are equal"?
The acronym that helps recall the first letters of the coordinating conjunctions.
What is FANBOYS?
The street name in Brooklyn Heights that is also the family name of one of Shakespeare's young lovers.
What is Montague?
The poetic equivalent of the "narrator" in a story, novel, or other piece of prose.
What is the speaker of a poem?
The poetic phrase that Fitzgerald uses to describe the forlorn industrial area about halfway between West Egg and Manhattan.
What is the "valley of ashes"?
The town where Little Fires Everywhere takes place.
What is Shaker Heights, Ohio?
"she", "who", "myself", "his", "which", and "them" are examples of this part of speech.
What is a pronoun?
The character in Hamlet who declares that "brevity is the soul of wit."
Who is Polonius?
Poetry in which the rhythm does not follow a regular, repeating pattern.
What is free verse?
What Nick sees when he "glance[s] seaward" at the end of Chapter One.
What is "a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of a dock."
The village that is the main setting in Things Fall Apart.
What is Umuofia?
The part of a sentence that includes a verb and states something about the subject.
What is a predicate?
The three main genres of Shakespeare's plays.
What are comedies, tragedies, and histories?
An author's brief, indirect reference to a person, place, event, or thing that is outside the text.
What is an allusion?
The job that Nick holds in the city.
What is a bond salesman?
The article of clothing that Holden Caulfield picks up in New York City.
What is a red hunting hat?
The kind of conjunction that connects a dependent clause with an independent clause.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
A prophecy says that Macbeth will only be vanquished when this comes against him in his castle.
What is Birnam Wood?
The device in poetry in which the words of one line "run on" and carry over into the next line to complete its meaning.
What is enjambment?
The cardinal virtue that Nick believes he possesses.
What is honesty?
Janie's three husbands in Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who are Logan, Joe ("Jody"), and Tea Cake?
The punctuation mark that connects two related complete sentences.
What is a semicolon?