Show:
Stuck In Neutral
Animal Farm
Twelfth Night
Harrison Bergeron/Letter from Birmingham Jail
Figurative Language
100
The main character in Stuck in Neutral suffers from this disorder.
What is cerebral palsy?
100
Animal Farm is an allegory for this period in history.
What is the Russian Revolution?
100
Twelfth Night is considered this genre of play because it ends in marriage.
What is a comedy?
100
Harrison Bergeron is handicapped for these three reasons.
What are his high intelligence, strength, and handsomeness?
100
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
200
Shawn's dad is famous for this reason.
What is the nobel prize he won for writing a poem about Shawn?
200
Old Major represents this figure from history.
Who is Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenon?
200
Shakespeare wrote in this meter.
What is iambic pentameter?
200
Martin Luther King Jr. was writing his letter to these folks.
What are clergymen?
200
A word that reflects it's meaning, usually in its pronunciation.
What is an onomatopoeia?
300
Some people consider this a humane way to end people's suffering.
What is euthanasia or assisted suicide?
300
The Beasts of England celebrates this concept.
What is collectivism (Communism or nationalism are acceptable for half credit)?
300
A speech made to oneself.
What is a soliloquy?
300
Kurt Vonnegut is considered this sort of writer because he writes stories with unbelievable plots.
What is an absurdist or satirist?
300
Tongue twisters are typically examples of this device.
What is an alliteration?
400
This serves as a symbol for death in a scene between Shawn and his father.
What is a crow?
400
The following animal represented thieves.
What is a rat?
400
Viola was disguised as this type of person.
What is a eunuch?
400
Martin Luther King Jr. explains that at first he is insulted to be thought of as an extremist, but then he is reminded of all these people (name at least one).
Who is Jesus Christ, or John the Baptist, or Martin Luther, or Paul the Apostle, or Amos, or John Bunyon, or Abraham Lincoln, or Thomas Jefferson?
400
An over-exaggeration is a synonym for this device.
What is a hyperbole?
500
This occurs at the very end of the book just as Shawn's father is about to follow through on his plans.
What is a seizure?
500
The final rule created on Animal Farm.
What is "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."?
500
The opening lines of the play.
If music be the food of love, play on.
500
The theme spray-painted in the final scene of the film adaptation.
What is "Live free or die, for death is not the worst of evils."?
500
In scary movies, directors often use this device when they depict shadows taking monstrous shapes and following terrified people.
What is personification?