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"The Last Spin"
The Outsiders
Romeo & Juliet
Poetry Terms
Other Fig. Lang.
100
This was the game that the boys were playing.
What is Russian Roulette?
100
The novel The Outsiders was told from this person's perspective.
Who was Ponyboy?
100
These are the names of the two warring familes in Verona.
Who are the Montagues and Capulets?
100
Romeo and Juliet is written in this type of verse or rhythm.
What is iambic pentameter?
100
Name the figurative language in the following lines: “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”
What is metaphor?
200
These were the two main characters in "The Last Spin."
Who were Tigo and Danny?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!! This character loved to crack jokes all the time.
Who was Two-Bit Matthews?
200
This is the age of Juliet at the start of the play.
What is 13?
200
This happens when the ending syllables of two adjacent lines of poetry rhyme.
What is rhyming couplets?
200
Name the figurative language in the following lines: “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes. . .”
What is alliteration?
300
This is how gangs were determined in "The Last Spin."
What is location (what block you lived on)?
300
At the beginning of the novel, this is how Ponyboy felt about his brother, Darry.
What is cold, strict, hard, unloving?
300
This individual gets very angry when he sees Romeo at Capulet's party.
Who is Tybalt?
300
This happens when there is no punctuation at the end of a poetic line and the reader should not pause at the end of the line, as is natural.
What is enjambment?
300
Name the literary device used in the following passage: “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.”
What is foreshadowing?
400
The boys promised to do this together once the game was over.
What is go boating with their girlfriends?
400
This is how gangs were determined in The Outsiders.
What is socioeconomic status (wealthy vs. poor)?
400
The Friar agrees to help Romeo and Juliet get married for this reason.
What is he hopes that the familes will stop fighting if they are married?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!! This term describes the poetic line that does have end punctuation.
What is an end-stopped line?
400
Name the figurative language in the following lines: “So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.”
What is simile?
500
This is one major theme in "The Last Spin."
What is friendship or choice?
500
This was the name of the poem that Ponyboy recites to Johnny at the abandoned church.
What is "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost?
500
Shakespeare sometimes chooses to write in prose for these three reasons.
What is for dirty jokes, shady plotting, or servants' lines?
500
This is a synonym for "iambic pentameter."
What is blank verse?
500
Name the figurative language in the following lines: “Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything, of nothing first created! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!”
What is oxymoron and antithesis?