Shakespeare
What is the Globe Theater?
This bird, along with the parrot, is a symbol of gossip, artistry, and female liberation in The Awakening.
What is the mockingbird?
In Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells the story of Kambili, who experiences the complexities of postcolonial life in this African country.
What is Nigeria?
Accusations of witchcraft tore apart this colony in the 1650s (note: I need the COLONY and not the town).
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
"Ferns favorite flower is lavender."
What is a missing apostrophe (Fern's)?
These are the two houses "alike in dignity" that are feuding in Romeo and Juliet.
Who are the Capulets and Montagues?
In Act 1 of Macbeth, which two characters see the martlet roosting on Macbeth's house, a sign from nature that a particular king is in danger.
Who are Duncan and Banquo?
Purple Hibiscus ends with Jaja being in prison for three years, which is perhaps an allusion to the three-year imprisonment of this character in The Color Purple.
Who is Sofia?
This enslaved Barbadian woman was accused of teaching the girls of Salem witchcraft in The Crucible.
Who is Tituba?
"Many people say that Dr. Maticic loves Pot Roast more then Tigger. But this is not necessarily true."
What is "then" should be "than"?
A Shakespearean sonnet is made up of lines consisting of this two-word meter.
What is iambic pentameter?
In Act 4 of The Crucible, Danforth finds these animals wandering all over Salem because so many people are locked up.
What are cows?
DAILY DOUBLE
This activist, orator, and founder of Tuskegee University relates his life story in his autobiography Up From Slavery. His beef with W. E. B. DuBois was not as vitriolic as it is sometimes depicted to be.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
In "Cancelled," Taylor Swift alludes a famous moment in a Shakespeare play when three witches announce the approach of this character: "Something wicked this way comes!"
Who is Macbeth?
DAILY DOUBLE
"Sophie is a French bulldog, Tigger is a cat."
What is a comma splice? (Change comma to a semi-colon, add a FANBOY, or start a new sentence).
The name of this son of Banquo is the object of much punning in Shakespeare's Macbeth, leading listeners to wonder: will he get away or will he be skinned alive?
Who is Fleance?
In Purple Hibiscus, Jaja proves his manhood by killing this animal for Aunty Ifeoma.
What is a chicken?
After escaping from slavery and fleeing to New York City, he wrote numerous autobiographies and fought for various causes, from abolition to women's rights. Don't forget the second "s"!
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This mythical daughter of Helios appears in Book 10 of the Odyssey and is thought to be one of the first witches. If you encounter her, you better hope you have some mole.
Who is Circe?
"Tigger sleeps on the green cat tree. In which Pot Roast used to sleep."
What is a sentence fragment? (turn the first period to a comma and combine the sentences).
In Othello, the repeated use of this adjective before a character's name becomes one of the play's most devastating examples of dramatic irony.
What is "honest" (as in "honest Iago").
In A Doll's House, Torvald uses this possessive animal name to belittle his wife, Nora. Little does he know it also foreshadows her "wild" future?
What is "little squirrel"?
This writer, activist, and educator died in 2014, leaving behind a wealth of writings, most famously the poetry collection I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Who is Maya Angelou?
The witches in Macbeth summon this Greek goddess in Act 4 of Macbeth. She also delivers a long speech in 3.5, though many readers doubt that Shakespeare actually wrote it.
Who is Hecate?
"Pot Roast eats delicious tuna, sitting on the floor."
What is a dangling participial phrase? (Move participial phrase to after Pot Roast).