Year 7 English
Terminology
The Great Gatsby
The Memory Police
Literary Works
100

A word that names something, such as a person, place, thing, or idea.

What is a noun?  

100

The area of a photograph where your eyes naturally settle. 

What is the / a focal point? 

100

Nick Caraway 

Who is the narrator?

100

The birds

Which disappearance takes place first in the novel?

100
"Write it down. Write it."

What is the opening line of Szymborska's poem 'Starvation Camp Near Jaslo'?

200

A word that represents an action.

What is a verb?

200

These are the three modes of rhetoric.

What are ethos, logos, and pathos? 

200

The green light

What is the symbol that centres Gatsby's desire for Daisy?

200

A repurposed theatre 

Where is the Memory Police HQ?

200

An unburied corpse

What 'object' drives the plot of Antigone?

300

A word that describes a noun.

What is an adjective?

300

Lines and squiggles coming from a cartoon character or object to indicate any of a variety of states of being.

What is emanata? 

300

A heatwave develops

What happens to the weather when Gatsby and Daisy's affair is about to be revealed?

300
"Ribbon, bell, emerald, stamp."

Which four objects does the narrator's mother show her in Chapter 1?

300

Athenian democracy

What emerging political system influenced Sophocles' plays?

400

A word which describes a verb or an adjective.

What is an adverb?

400

Repetition of a word at the end of a line/sentence

What is epistrophe?

400
"an unbroken series of successful gestures"

How does Nick describe personality?

400

Don (the dog)

Which character is the only one to get a name?

400
"come and see the blood in the streets"

What line is repeated at the end of Neruda's 'I Explain a Few Things"?

500

A word that represents or takes the place of a noun in a sentence.

What is a pronoun?

500

Analepsis

What is another word for 'flashback'?

500

It is the part of the novel which does not actually exist

What is the significance of the epigraph?

500

Two days

How long does it take for the roses to disappear?

500

Marilyn Chin's poem "The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty" is a reference to this classical Chinese poet. 

Who is Li Bai? 

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