TEWWG
Short Stories
Vocab
Plays
Vocab Part 2
100

Who wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God?

Zora Neale Hurston

100

Who wrote A Rose for Emily? 

William Faulkner

100

Free Verse

Poem that doesn't rhyme/have rhyme scheme

100

Characterize Blanche DuBois

will take a correct, detailed response
100

Volta

a shift in a Petrarchan sonnet

200

Name 2 symbols in Their Eyes Were Watching God and explain what they mean. 

Mule

Hair 

Pear Tree

The Horizon

Checkers

Hurricane

200

Themes of The Yellow Wallpaper?

Subordination of women in marriage

Importance of self-expression

Mental illness

Gender roles

200

I can hear little clicks inside my dream.

Night drips its silver tap

down the back.

At 4 A.M. I wake. Thinking


of the man who

left in September.

His name was Law.

Enjambment

200

Who is Henrik Ibsen?

playwright who wrote A Doll's House

200

giving life-like characteristics to something that isn't alive

Personification

300

Where did Janie and Tea Cake live before the hurricane? 

Everglades

300

Characterize the Misfit

will take correct answer

300

A reference to literature, history, culture, etc.

Allusion

300

Theme of Death of a Salesman

American Dream

Family

300

Imagery

writing that appeals to the senses

400

Describe Nanny

Will take an accurate response

400

Who is Homer Barron?

Emily's love interest that she murders
400

Octave

8 lines in a stanza

400

Symbols in The Glass Menagerie and what they represent

the glass menagerie

the unicorn

blue roses

the fire escape

400

What is the purpose of alliteration?

to draw attention/emphasize the language/message that is being alliterative

500
Name one theme in TEWWG

Power

Femininity

Love vs. Independence

Gender Roles

Class

500

What is a symbol in The Most Dangerous Game and what does it represent?

Blood/color red

The Island

The Mansion

The Jungle

500

What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet, the sun!

Metaphor

500

Who is Troy Maxson?

main character in Fences

500

What are the similarities and differences between a Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnet?

Similarities: 14 lines

Differences: rhyme scheme, structure, shift placement