Screwtape Letters
He is the author of The Screwtape Letters.
Who is C.S. Lewis?
He is the author of My Life and Hard Times.
Who is James Thurber?
The DIDLS acronym stands for this.
What is diction, imagery, details, language, and syntax?
He is the "Bard of Avon" and the author of Macbeth.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This knight is the author of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
He is the author of The Chosen.
Who is Chaim Potok?
According to Screwtape, this is the safest road to hell.
What is the gradual one? A slow drift into sin and corruption is preferrable to a sudden jolt.
The author's family lived in this city.
What is Columbus, Ohio?
A DIDLS analysis of "The Pit and the Pendulum" reveals this kind of tone.
Answers will vary:
What is feverish, claustrophobic, and psychological?
Macbeth takes place in this country.
What is Scotland?
Who is Sir Charles Baskerville?
This major event happens early in The Chosen while Reuven is in the hospital.
What is D-Day? (June 6, 1944)
This is the "law of undulation."
What is that a person's life - spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually - is a series of ups and downs (peaks and troughs) rather than a steady state?
These are the three types of humor we discussed in class.
What are surprise, exaggeration, and situational irony?
The Hound of the Baskervilles is written from this character's perspective.
Who is Dr. Watson?
Macbeth murders this king.
Who is Duncan?
This person is initially suspected of being behind the plot against the Baskervilles.
Who is Mr. Barrymore?
What is Hasidism?
What are the "equal and opposite" errors humans make about demons?
What is that they either completely deny their existence or they become obsessed with them?
In "The Day the Dam Broke," the fact that the dam did not actually break is an example of this kind of humor.
What is exaggeration?
This is one major theme in Macbeth.
What is unchecked ambition, psychological torment/guilty, etc.?
"Fair is foul and foul is fair,
Hover through the fog and filthy air" is spoke by this/these character(s).
Who are the three witches?
The villain used this trick to make the giant hound appear more supernatural and ominous.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Zionism?
Screwtape finds this fact to be difficult to believe.
What is the God truly and unconditionally loves humans?
The author flipping over in his army cot and making his mother think the bed fell on his father is an example of this kind of humor.
What is surprise?
This is the difference between theme and motif.
What is that theme is the central message or underlying lesson of a story while a motif is a recurring element, such as an object or concept, that helps reinforce the theme?
Malcolm tests Macduff's loyalty by saying this.
What is that he would make a bad king?
This man behind the hound attacks carries this secret.
What is that he, "Jack Stapleton," is in fact an estranged Baskerville?
Reb Saunders give this reason for raising Danny in silence.
What is to teach him suffering and humility?