VOCABULARY
POETRY
SHAKESPEARE
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS
LAGNIAPPE
100

Is HOSPITABLE a NOUN or an ADJECTIVE?

ADJECTIVE

100

A ________________ compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"

SIMILE

100

What is the name of Shakespeare's theater?

THE GLOBE
100

What is dramatic irony?

When the reader/audience knows something the character/s do not know

100

A poetic paragraph is called a _____________________

STANZA

200

"Split Hair" is a SYNONYM for which one of the following vocabulary words?

             STIFLE        QUIBBLE          FLOURISH

QUIBBLE

200

What literary term means EXAGGERATION?

HYPERBOLE

200

What is a serious theme from MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT DREAM?   (from exam study guide)

JEALOUSY

200

When do you think Bruno and Shmuel's friendship becomes stronger?  Explain.

Various answers

200

Is STIFLE an adjective or a verb?

VERB

300

"Sicken" is an ANTONYM for which one of the following vocabulary words?


HOSPITABLE      SHIRK       ENTICE      FLOURISH

ENTICE

300

State and spell correctly the literary term that means giving something nonhuman humanlike qualities.

PERSONIFICATION

300

List the two themes from the play that you will have to write a paragraph about on the exam.

REALITY vs. FANTASY or CHAOS and CONFUSION

300

Why is it ironic Bruno likes Pavel?

Because Pavel is a Jew and Bruno is being taught not to like Jews.

300

Name all four couples from MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT DREAM

Hermia and Lysander

Helena and Demetrius

Oberon and Titania

Theseus and Hippolyta

400

State and spell correctly the vocabulary word that means disgraceful or disreputable.

NOTORIOUS

400

What THREE literary techniques from your exam review do you see in the following lines of poetry?


        The child ran down the long, rocky road,

        "Don't go there!" he had been told.

ALLITERATION      IMAGERY        COUPLETS

400

Name all THE MECHANICALS

(not on your exam, but it's a good 400 pt. question!)

Peter Quince, Flute, Bottom, Snout, Starvling, Snug

400

At the end of the story, what happened to Father and why was he "happy" to go?

He was taken away by Allied soldiers, and he was "happy to do so" because he didn't really mind what happened to him anymore because he realized what had happened to Bruno, and that he had played a role in his son's death.
400

Give the part of speech for each of the following vocabulary words:


         LAVISH               DETEST          SHIRK

                           ENTICE

all verbs