Go Figure
The manuscript is like a diamond in the rough.
What is a simile?
Opposite of dystopia, this is an imagined place of perfection.
What is utopia?
Hall of Fame baseball player stricken with ALS.
Who is Lou Gehrig?
Author gives hints about what's to come.
What is foreshadowing?
What was dancing?
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
The protagonist often feels __ and struggles to escape.
What is trapped?
Morrie Schwartz taught this while a professor at Brandeis.
What is sociology?
Words and phrases that vividly paint a picture for the reader.
What is imagery?
Mitch gave Morrie this present when he graduated.
What was a briefcase?
The character struggles against an outside force.
What is an external conflict?
In Harrison Bergeron, the announcers couldn't speak clearly.
What is situational irony?
Famous TV broadcaster and host of "Nightline."
Who is Ted Koppel?
The moon peeked shyly through the clouds.
What is personification?
The subject of Mitch's final class with his old professor was this.
What is the meaning of life?
The feeling created in a literary work.
Bragged about having participated in the lottery 77 years but never winning.
Who was Old Man Warner?
Former athlete was found not guilty of double murder in 1994.
Who is O.J. Simpson?
Saying the opposite of what you mean.
What is verbal irony?
Morrie decided to have one of these before he died.
What was a living funeral?
The central message of a story or what the author wants you to learn.
What is theme.
The use of humor or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s faults.
What is satire?
The life expectancy of a person diagnosed with ALS is.
What is 3-5 years.
A reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history.
What is allusion?
Morrie compared ALS to this, using a simile.
What was a lit candle?