RANDOM
Common Mod: The Crucible
Mod A: The Tempest & Hag-Seed
Mod B: Eliot
Mod C: Everyone's Favourite
How well do you know the rubrics?
100
What color is a hippopotamus's sweat?
Reddish-pink (often called "blood sweat").
100
What formal feature does The Crucible share with Animal Farm?
Political allegory
100
What is the condition of Ferdinand's proposal to Miranda?
Oh, if a virgin,
And your affection not gone forth, I’ll make you
The queen of Naples.
100
What is the way the world ends?
not with a bang but a whimper
100
Define 'persuasive text'
A persuasive text is any piece of writing designed to convince the reader to adopt a specific point of view, agree with an opinion, or take a particular action
100
What pair of words are used to describe 'similarities' and 'differences' between the prescibed texts in Mod A?
resonances and dissonances
200
In which country is it illegal to own just one guinea pig without a companion?
Switzerland (to prevent loneliness).
200
Name the famous actress to whom Arthur Miller was married.
Marilyn Monroe
200
How many years have Prospero and Miranda been on the island?
Twelve years
200
What major personal and spiritual shift in Eliot’s life does this poem symbolise, separating it from the nihilism of his earlier urban poetry?
His conversion to Anglicanism/Christianity
200
What are THREE things a strong discursive should include?
A dilemma
Anecdotes and/or Personal Reflections
Low to Moderate Modality
(other answers possible
200
Which Module do I belong to?
anomalies, paradoxes and inconsistencies
Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences
300
What was bubble wrap originally invented to be?
Textured wallpaper.
300
What were Giles Corey’s last words?
"More weight."
300
What does Caliban mistake Stephano for when he first meets him?
A god.
300
What does T. S. stand for?
Thomas Stearns
300
What technique groups three words or phrases together for maximum impact in a persuasive text?
Tricolon (or the rule of three).
300
Which Module do I belong to?
...how the personal, social, cultural and historical contextual knowledge that [students] bring to the texts influences their perspectives...
Module A: Textual Conversations
400
What is the national animal of Scotland?
The unicorn.
400
What are the missing words?
You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some _____ of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to _____ a _____ with, but white enough to keep it from such _____.
You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs.
400
Hag-Seed was published in 2016 as part of which project that invited contemporary authors to reimagine Shakespeare’s plays?
The Hogarth Shakespeare project was an effort by Hogarth Press to retell works by William Shakespeare for a more modern audience and mark the four-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's death. To do this, Hogarth commissioned well-known writers to select and re-imagine the plays.
400
What term did T. S. Eliot use to describe a set of objects, images or events that evokes a particular emotion without directly naming that emotion?
The objective correlative
400
Correctly name Nam Le's text on the Mod C presciption list. Hint: It starts with Love.
Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice
400
What concept is being described here and to which rubric does it belong?
The unity of a text; its coherent use of form and language to produce an integrated whole in terms of meaning and value.
Texual integrity.
Module B: Critical Study of Literature.
500
What was the original name of the search engine Google when it was first created in 1996?
BackRub.
500
What is an anomaly?
something that deviates from the expected
500
Felix’s students identify eight “unique incarceration events” in The Tempest. Name four of them.
500
What are the sources of the two epigraphs that open The Hollow Men?
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and the English Guy Fawkes tradition, specifically children asking for “a penny for the Old Guy”
500
What narrative perspective uses the pronoun "You" to make the reader a direct character inside your imaginative text?
Second-person narrative voice.
500
The Mod C Rubric notes that "writers use language creatively and imaginatively for a range of purposes." Name two of these purposes.
to express insights, evoke emotion, describe the wonder of the natural world, shape a perspective or to share an aesthetic vision.
600
Which marsupial has fingerprints so closely resembling human fingerprints that they have occasionally confused crime scene investigators?
The koala
600
How much money does Abigail steal from Parris, leaving him penniless?
Thirty-one pound is gone. I am penniless. (He covers his face and sobs.)
600
Accounts of the 1609 shipwreck of which English vessel are believed to have influenced Shakespeare’s depiction of the tempest and island?
The Sea Venture, which was shipwrecked near Bermuda.
600
What fictional colonial character from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is declared dead in the poem's opening epigraph?
Mistah Kurtz.
600
What specific literary device involves writing down a character's unfiltered, continuous internal thoughts exactly as they happen?
Stream of consciousness.
600
According to the Common Module Rubric, texts "invite responders" to do one of four things. Name the four things.
see the world differently
to challenge assumptions
ignite new ideas
reflect personally