Books (Semester 1)
(State the AUTHOR and BOOK title.)
This author dedicated this memoir to his mother.
Who is Trevor Noah, author of Born a Crime?
(State the CHARACTER, BOOK, and AUTHOR) This mythical figure originally appeared in Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West.
Who is the MONKEY KING from American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang?
This term describes things like sentence type and length.
What is SYNTAX?
This part of the essay appears at the end of the introduction. It's a clear statement of the author's argument.
What is a THESIS STATEMENT?
This famous Elizabethan playwright died of a hangover.
Who is WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE?
(State the CHARACTER, BOOK TITLE, and AUTHOR)
This character lost his glasses... and then his life.
Who is PIGGY from Lord of the Flies by William Golding?
(State the CHARACTER, BOOK, and AUTHOR) This lovesick idiot let his friend flirt with a girl for him.
Who is Claudio from Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare?
This is the space that exists between panels in a graphic novel.
What is a GUTTER?
What acronym did we use for introductions and conclusions, and what does each letter stand for?
G-S-T (General-Specific-Thesis)
This activist fought to end apartheid in South Africa.
(State the CHARACTER, BOOK, and AUTHOR.)
This (hallucinated?) character is based off of the Devil.
Who is the Lord of the Flies from Lord of the Flies by William Golding?
This hilarious trick helped a bunch of Greek soldiers escape a monster's cave.
Some variation of "Odysseus told the Cyclops his name was Nobody."
Is this an example of direct or indirect characterization? Why?
“My father was loving and devoted, but I could only see him when and where apartheid allowed” (Noah 35).
This is direct characterization because Trevor Noah is explicitly telling us about his father's personality.
This sentence comes at the end of a paragraph. It wraps up the main argument of that paragraph.
What is a CONCLUDING STATEMENT?
This kind of magazine is filled with celebrity gossip.
What is a TABLOID?
English, Zulu, Xhosa, Tsonga, and Afrikaans
(State the CHARACTER, BOOK, and AUTHOR) This art teacher always helped his students express their feelings, no matter how difficult they were.
Who is Mr. Freeman from Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson?
This is an (often indirect) reference to another text in a work of literature.
What is an ALLUSION?
What's wrong with this in-text citation? (Hint: There are TWO MISTAKES here.)
After Ursula convinces Beatrice that Benedick loves her, she says, "Some cupids kill with arrows, some with traps." (Shakespeare, 3.1.112).
Correct citation: "Some cupids kill with arrows, some with traps" (Shakespeare 3.1.112).
(Remove the extra period and comma.)
This author was a teacher before he was a novelist.
Who is William Golding?
The House on Mango Street takes place in this major American city.
What is Chicago?
This modern-day film, starring Glen Powell and Sidney Sweeney, is an adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing.
What is Anyone but You?
What kind of meter did Shakespeare use?
IAMBIC PENTAMETER
What is the problem with this analysis?
When talking about the Beast, Simon says, "Maybe it's only us" (Golding 180). This is happening because the boys think they saw a beast on the mountain and they are talking about it.
This analysis summarizes the plot. It doesn't analyze anything.
This is the famous epithet that Homer used to describe the Mediterranean Sea.
What is "the wine-dark sea"?