American Literature
This author wrote The Great Gasby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The U.S. Civil War ended in this year.
What is 1865?
The solution to the equation 2x + 4 = 10?
What is x = 3?
The chemical symbol for water.
What is H2O?
Means “friendly and easy to talk to.”
What is affable?
A narrative technique where the chronological order is disrupted by flashbacks or non-linear storytelling.
What is non-linear narrative or flashback?
This President issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The name of a graph that looks like a "U" and comes from a quadratic equation.
What is a parabola?
This subatomic particle has a positive charge.
What is a proton?
Means “to make something worse.”
What is exacerbate?
This literary theory examines texts through the lens of social class, power structures, and economic conditions.
What is Marxist criticism?
This global conflict was fought from 1914 to 1918.
What is World War I?
The square root of 144.
What is 12?
This law states that matter cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
Means “short and clear.”
What is concise?
This American literary period, from roughly 1865 to 1900, is characterized by a focus on social realities and the depiction of everyday life.
What is Realism?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ended segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
If f (x) = x2, what is f (3)?
What is 9?
This type of bond shares electrons between atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
Means “hidden or secret.”
What is covert?
This term describes the conflict between an individual and the larger society or group, often a theme in American literature.
What is man vs society?
This U.S. economic crisis began with the 1929 stock market crash.
What is the Great Depression?
The formula used to solve any quadratic equation.
What is the quadratic formula?
This term refers to the horizontal rows in the periodic table, where elements share the same number of electron shells.
What are periods?
Means “very careful and paying close attention to small details.”
What is meticulous?