Silly Scary Short Stories
In William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" This was the (implied) way Emily killed Homer.
What is Arsenic/Rat Poison?
Double Points: How did this affect his relationship?
What is baseball?
What is his relationship his with Cory
DAILY DOUBLE:
The novel opens with Meursault attending this person's funeral.
Double Points: What was his overall attitude?
Who is Meursault's mother?
What is indifference?
"With which she followed my poor father's body like Niobe, all tears" (Hamlet, Shakespeare)
What is a simile and/or allusion?
In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, this famous phrase was uttered by Julius Caesar after he was assassinated.
What is "E Tu, Brutus?"
This was the unique aspect of the setting in Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas."
What is a perfect city built on the suffering of a single individual.
This was Troy's response to Cory after he asked him "why don't you like me?"
What is a father's responsibility?
This was the ethnicity of the man Meursault murdered halfway through the novel.
What is "Arab?"
"But could a dream send up through onion fumes/Its white and violet, fight with fried potatoes/And yesterday’s garbage ripening in the hall,/Flutter, or sing an aria down these rooms"
("Kitchenette Building," Gwendolyn Brooks)
What is Personification?
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, this is what the green light across the dock from Gatsby's house represented.
What is Gatsby's love for Daisy Buchanan?
Daily Double
This animal was the main symbol that represented Jack's relationship with his mother in Ken Liu's "The Paper Menagerie."
Double Points: This was the animal's name.
What is a tiger?
Who is Laohu?
This was the topic of Rose and Cory's final conversation during Troy's funeral.
*Answer needs to specify both what Cory wants and what Rose Wants*
What is Cory wanting to skip the funeral, and Rose "learning to forgive Troy?"
The final conversation in the novel, before Meursault's execution, is between these 2 characters.
Who are Meursault and the Chaplain?
"Fair-haired, bright colour glowing in his face,/ Tall and sell-set, broad-shouldered, finally," ("Ladies, who of my lord fain be told," Gaspara Stampa)
What is Imagery?
In Andy Weir's novel The Martian, Mark Watney was stranded and had to survive on Mars. This was his job/specialization on the ship.
What is a botanist?
In Kurt Vonnegut's "2BR02B," the narrator states that employees of the Federal Bureau of Termination were identifiable through 2 things: this uniform color and physical feature
What is Purple and "an unmistakable mustache"?
Daily Double
This was the name of the woman Troy cheated on Rose with and who birthed Raynell.
Double Points:What does Rose say in response to taking in Raynell (gimme the line)
Who is Alberta?
"This mother got a child... but you a womanless man."
This was the philosophy Albert Camus popularized, in which The Stranger exemplifies.
Both Identify and explain the philosophy's main ideaWhat is absurdism?
How come people always look for meaning in a chaotic and indifferent world?
"the squelch and slap/ of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge" ("Digging, Seamus Heaney)
*Hint* This jeopardy game
What is Alliteration?
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, this was the reason why, despite his efforts, Gatsby was never accepted by "old money" types such as Tom Buchanan.
Something something something "dirty money," "new money," wasn't born with it, and class divisions.
This was the animal Jack compares his mom to, after he and his father force her to speak English instead of Chinese
What is a water buffalo?
"Mom hunched down in her seat, looking like the water buffalo when Laohu used to pounce on him and squeeze the air of life out of him"
Troy gives Cory "3 strikes" throughout the for the play following actions:
1st Strike: Troy sabotages Cory's football scouting
2nd Strike: Cory knocks Troy down after the latter admits the affair.
3rd strike: Cory and Troy fight, leading to Cory getting kicked out.
Daily Double
During Meursault's trial, 6 witnesses come to testify for/against him. These were their names (need at least 3; descriptions of their character work instead of names; recalling 5 gets the daily double)
Thomas Perez (lived in the same retirement home as Meursault's mother, was sad during funeral); Celeste: Cafe owner and Meaursault's Friend; Marie: Meursault's lover; Salamano: Meursault's neighbor, abuses his dog; Masson: Friend of Raymond and Meursault; Raymond: Meursault's friend, abuses mistress and picks fights with others.
We have read 3 poems as a class in which the whole poem was a metaphor, or extended metaphor. Name 2 of them.
"'Hope' is a thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson
"The Author to Her Book" by Anne Bradstreet
"Marching Through the Novel" by John Updike
Daily nX
Reginald Rose's play 12 Angry Men details a court trial in which 1 juror slowly convinces the whole room to vote "Not Guilty." This was that juror's #.
(Refresher: None of the jurors had names and were referred to by the 1-12 number)
Bonus Points: The reasons for each jurors to switch to non-guilty (200 each)
Who is Juror #8?
#9: Support 8; #5: Knife Biomechanics; #6: room layout/witness' hobble; #7: get the vote over with; #4: Glasses;#10: He's just racist; #3: Relationship with son; Everyone else: Goes with the flow