Poetry
A figure of speech where an idea, animal, or inanimate object is given human attributes.
What is personification?
What is inconceivable?
I love ketchup I hate tomatoes.
What grammatical error is present?
What is a run-on sentence?
Bonus 100 points: Correct the grammatical error.
The character who found several girls, including his own daughter and niece, dancing in the woods at night.
Who is Reverend Parris?
Bonus 100 points: Which two girls pretended to be unconscious after getting caught?
The subcategory of Romanticism which explores darker aspects of human nature.
What is Gothic/Dark Romanticism?
When the normal order of words within a sentence is shifted.
What is inversion?
A natural inclination; a tendency
What is proclivity?
The punctuation that can join two independent clauses without turning them into two separate sentences.
What is a semicolon?
When a person or group of people are targeted for a crime they did not commit, often coupled with mass hysteria as well as a lack of evidence.
What is a "witch hunt"?
A group of poets whose works were read by families around the hearth.
Who were the Fireside Poets?
An indirect reference to cultural touchstone, often from history, religion, or mythology.
What is an allusion?
A regional dialect, especially a nonstandard one that has no written translation.
What is patois?
On my way to school, we drove by a family stranded on the side of the road.
What is the subject of this sentence?
What is "we"?
One of the Ten Commandments which John Proctor could not recite, as he was guilty of breaking that commandment.
What is adultery?
In New York City, a solution to the crime and immorality that many associated urban cities with.
What is Central Park?
The repetition of a vowel sound within words within a line or stanza.
What is assonance?
Bonus 200 points: What is the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words?
A particular manner of speaking or using words.
What is parlance?
A clause which cannot stand independently and must be paired with an independent clause.
What is a dependent (subordinate) clause?
The character who ended up accusing John Proctor of witchcraft after being mimicked and accused of witchcraft by several girls, including Abigail Williams, in the courtroom.
Who is Mary Warren?
The "Father of American Poetry".
Who is William Cullen Bryant?
A line of poetry with 10 syllables following a pattern of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable.
What is iambic pentameter?
Bonus 100 points: What does iambic pentameter sound like?
Ridiculous misuse of a word, especially by confusing it with one of a similar sound.
What is malapropism?
A verb which only shows existence, rather than an action.
What is a linking verb?
The character who refused to reveal the source of his information to the court, and ended up getting crushed to death by stones.
Who is Giles Corey?
Bonus 300 points: What were his last words?
Edgar Allen Poe's poem which memorialized his late child wife.
What is "Annabel Lee"?