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Romeo & Juliet
The Outsiders: Trivia
The Outsiders: Who said it?
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100

Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?

William Shakespeare

100

What decade is the novel written and set in?

1960s

100

"Stay gold, Ponyboy."

Johnny

100

What is your big, overarching (umbrella) argument called in an essay?

Thesis

100

Identify the technique: "The wind whispered through the trees."

Personification

200
What is the genre of the play?

Tragedy

200

What novel did Ponyboy and Johnny read together when they were hiding out in the abandoned church?

Gone With the Wind

200

"Well, it's two in the morning, kiddo. Another hour and I would have had the police out after you. Where were you, Ponyboy?"

Darry

200

What are Miss Kummeling's 3 blacklisted words for analytical writing?

Quote, shows, technique

200

Name the collective noun for at least two of these animals: crows, geese, whales

A murder of crows

A gaggle of geese
A pod of whales

300

Correctly name the surname of each of the protagonists.

Romeo Montague & Juliet Capulet

300

What is unique about the novel's structure and what does it represent?

Circular structure; it starts the same way it ends. It represents the importance of telling and hearing the stories of those whose stories aren't usually told.

300

"I don't look like a farm boy."

Ponyboy

300

Give a one-sentence hyperbolic review of The Outsiders.

Miss Kummeling will be the judge. Hyperbole = over-exaggerated.

300

What is the genre of The Hunger Games? (not young adult)

Will accept: dystopia / coming-of-age
400

Finish this quote and tell me who says it:
"These violent delights..."

"These violent delights have violent ends."

- Friar Lawrence

400

What is the name of Sodapop's horse?

Mickey Mouse

400

"There are some people here to see you. Claim to be your brothers or something."

Jerry

400

What is dramatic irony? Give an example from Romeo and Juliet.

Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something the character does not. E.g. When the audience knows Juliet faked her death but Romeo thinks she really died.

400

Name the novel that begins with this line: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

500

Name 5 other Shakespeare plays.

COMEDIES

  • All's Well That Ends Well
  • As You Like It
  • Comedy of Errors
  • Love's Labour's Lost
  • Measure for Measure
  • Merchant of Venice
  • Merry Wives of Windsor
  • Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Much Ado about Nothing
  • Taming of the Shrew
  • Tempest
  • Twelfth Night
  • Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • Winter's Tale

HISTORIES

  • Henry IV, Part I
  • Henry IV, Part II
  • Henry V
  • Henry VI, Part I
  • Henry VI, Part II
  • Henry VI, Part III
  • Henry VIII
  • King John
  • Pericles
  • Richard II
  • Richard III

TRAGEDIES

  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • Coriolanus
  • Cymbeline
  • Hamlet
  • Julius Caesar
  • King Lear
  • Macbeth
  • Othello
  • Timon of Athens
  • Titus Andronicus
  • Troilus and Cressida
500

Approximately many words long is the novel? You must be within a 2000 word window.

48,000 to 50,000 words.

500

"Boys will be boys."

The farmer who gives Ponyboy and Johnny directions to Jay Mountain.

500

Correctly spell the technique that mimics the sound that it describes. Starts with O.

Onomatopoeia

500

What does the Latin phrase carpe diem mean?

Seize the day