Shakespeare
Not counting "Othello," the name of two tragic plays written by Shakespeare.
Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet.... there are many possible answers!
The authour of "The Cask of Amontillado," who is referenced many times in "Wednesday" on Netflix.
Edgar Allan Poe
A comparison made using the word "like" or "as."
A simile.
Lennie's last name in "Of Mice and Men."
Our classroom number.
1183
The name for the theatre Shakespeare co-owned.
The name for a big group of birds moving together, according to a Reading Minute from last week.
A murmuration.
The name for a 14-line poem with a set rhyme scheme.
A sonnet.
What is the setting (state and decade) of "Of Mice and Men"?
California, 1930s.
For, And, Nor, But, And, Yet, So
The colour of Queen Elizabeth I's hair.
Red.
The city in BC in which "sun dogs" appeared recently, according to our Reading Minute.
Prince George.
The name for repetition specifically at the start of a line of poetry.
Anaphora
The original title of "Of Mice and Men."
"Something that Happened."
The three types of irony.
Situational, Verbal, and Dramatic
Desdemona
The first name of the protagonist in Katherine Mansfield's story "Her First Ball."
Leila
The season of the year that the song "The Gambler" takes place in.
Summer. ("On a warm summer's evenings...")
The name of the Scottish poet who wrote the poem "To a Mouse."
Robert (Robbie) Burns
What MLA stands for.
Modern Language Association
How many people (in thousands) who went to the theatre each year by 1600, according to our class notes.
20,000
The name of the Canadian company that sells adult dog beds.
Plufl.
The name for a stanza that is four lines long.
A quatrain.
The decade in which "Of Mice and Men" was published.
1930s. (Specifically, 1937).
The name of the woman Theseus abandoned on an island in the myth "Theseus and the Minotaur."
Ariadne.