These three letters begin with an M and are often used as a prefix and means BAD
What is MAL ?
100
The death, demise, or ruin of a tragic hero in a tragedy
What is CATASTROPHE
100
For some reason, neither Juliet nor Lennie are examples of this....but Romeo and George ARE!
What is PROTAGONIST?
100
The most reliable file extensions found on a URL
What is .EDU or .GOV (If you have to pick, choose .edu)
100
Shoots Candy's old dog
Who is CARLSON?
200
MOROSE, DEJECTED, DEPRESSED
What are synonyms for SAD?
200
Repetition of beginning CONSONANT SOUNDS as in "babbling brook"
What is ALLITERATION
200
Literary period most closely associated with Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
What is NATURALISM
200
Even if you use internal or parenthetical citations and create a proper Works Cited in MLA format, if you only change one or two words in each sentence you are committing this ACADEMIC NO-NO because you are not taking OWNERSHIP of the information.
What is PLAGIARISM?
200
Antagonists
WHO ARE CURLEY AND TYBALT?
300
When you add this two letter suffix to an adjective, it becomes an adverb that modifies a verb.
What is --LY ?
300
This is the main character and could be used to describe GEORGE or ROMEO.
What is PROTAGONIST?
300
This is the pattern of stress in blank verse (iambic pentameter, found in most sonnets and much of Romeo and Juliet). It can be coded using a U shaped symbol and a /.
What is ta DA / ta DA / ta DA / ta DA / ta DA
or what is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable ?
300
TWO ways to show documentation or acknowledge sources
What are WORKS CITED and
INTERNAL (or PARENTHETICAL) citations?
300
Event that changes the direction of a story, follows rising action and goes before falling action?
What is the CRISIS, CLIMAX, or TURNING POINT?
400
SOLO, SOLOIST, SOLILOQUY, SOLITUDE, SOLITAIRE
What are words containing SOL? (which means ALONE, ONE, or BY ONESELF)
400
This is a fourteen lined poem with an alternating rhyme pattern, ten syllables to a line, and ends with a rhyming couplet. Shakespeare wrote over 150 of them!
What is a SONNET?
400
Each tragic hero, such as Romeo, has one or more of these.
What is TRAGIC FLAW
400
Changing one word every sentence will still NOT prevent this academic NO-NO
What is plagiarism?
400
Of Mice and Men is narrated from this point of view.
What is THIRD PERSON NARRATION (or THIRD PERSON POINT OF VIEW)
500
This five letter suffix has two Os and ends in Y. It contains a word part meaning WORD, and means "field of study" or "academic subject" (that one can study)
What is --OLOGY
500
You look at the last word in each line to see how it sounds. The first letter is always A. If the sound changes, it gets a new letter.
What is HOW DO YOU DETERMINE RHYME SCHEME?
500
Unrhymed (usually, although Shakespeare breaks this rule a lot) IAMBIC PENTAMETER has another name. This term has two words, the first begins with a B and the second word begins with a V.
What is BLANK VERSE?
500
The purpose of an essay or research paper, usually found in the last sentence of the introduction
What is the THESIS?
500
George killing Lennie could be seen as this.
Will allow two answers, either:
What is AN ACT OF MERCY? or
What is the CATASTROPHE