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To Be or Not to Be
Killing Mockingbirds
Literary Devices
Short(ish) Stories
100

The F in FANBOYS stands for...

For

100

Who is the main "villain" in Merchant of Venice?

Shylock

100

Who wrote the novel?

Harper Lee

100
What device is this? Mr. Hernandez helped students hospitably. 

Alliteration.

100
A _______ diagram outlines the parts of a story.

Plot

200

A comma between two independent clauses gives us a...

Comma splice OR run on sentence

200

Who is Bassanio in love with?

Portia

200

What is the name of the narrator?

Scout, or Scout Finch

200

What literary device gives human qualities to non human things?

Personification.

200
The short story we read about fear and crime was called...

Lamb to the Slaughter

300

A complete sentence must have a... and...

Subject and a verb, and express a complete thought

300

The quality of mercy is not...

strained.

300

What is the name of the narrator's older brother?

Jem, or Jeremy

300

What literary device is used in this Hamilton line? "We are a powder keg about to explode"

Metaphor

300

The short story we read about imagination was called...

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

400

What is the other name for FANBOYS?

Coordinating conjunctions

400

Jessica falls in love with...

Lorenzo.

400

What does Scout call her father?

Atticus

400
"I lost my ______" was a poem we studied by Rita Joe

talk

400

Human vs human is an example of...

Conflict
500

What is the official name of the sentence with two independent clauses joined by a comma and a FANBOYS?

A compound sentence.

500

In the end, how many ships does Antonio lose?

Zero.

500

What is the name of the town where the story takes place?

Maycomb, Alabama

500

"Tell the truth, but tell it ____" is a famous Emily Dickinson poem that plays with slant rhyme.

slant

500

What is the type of short story that takes place in less than a few hundred words called?

A flash fiction