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The Piano Lesson
Othello
Literary Terms
Things They Carried
TKAM
100
This is the decade in which the play takes place.
What is the 1940s?
100
This is the author of the play.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
These are the 3 major points of view in a piece of writing.
What is first person, third person, and third person omniscient?
100
This is the country in which most of the action takes place.
What is Vietnam?
100
This is the setting of the book.
What is the Deep South (Maycomb, Alabama) in the 1930s.
200
This is the city in which the play takes place.
What is Pittsburgh?
200
This person is the lover boy who is accused of sleeping with Desdemona.
Who is Cassio?
200
This is a definition for symbolism.
What is an object that represents itself as well as something more significant in a piece of writing?
200
This is the author of the book.
Who is Tim O'Brien?
200
This is the point of view from which the story is told.
What is first person narration (Scout)?
300
This is why Boy Willie wants to sell the piano.
What is to buy Sutter's land?
300
This is the quality everyone attributes to Iago, which he does not have.
What is honesty?
300
This is when an author gives human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
300
This is the meaning of the book's title.
What is the physical AND emotional burdens the men carried with them to, in and out of war.
300
This is what a mockingbird symbolizes.
What is an innocent victim?
400
They are the Ghosts of the Yellow Dog.
Who are the hoboes who died in the boxcar fire with Boy Charles?
400
This is what the scarf symbolizes.
What is eternal/undying love between husband and wife?
400
An example of this device is: "I've called you a hundred, million times!"
What is hyperbole?
400
This is a device O'Brien uses to show extreme differences, such as the description of Norman Bowker's hometown compared to Vietnam.
What is juxtaposition?
400
These are the two major "mockingbirds" in the book.
Who are Tom Robinson and Boo Radley.
500
This is what the piano represents to Berniece.
What is the family's history in the carvings, and the thieving and killing that have happened around it?
500
This is a theme of Othello.
What is the danger of isolation/the incompatibility of love and heroism/the danger of jealousy?
500
This is the definition of imagery.
What is an author's use of descriptive words and phrases to create sensory experiences for the reader?
500
This is a major reason O'Brien writes and others in the story tell stories.
What is to bring the dead back to life?
500
This is a theme from the book.
What is the loss of childhood innocence/ the dangers of racism/ various answers?