Literary Devices
The Great Gatsby
MLA Format
ACT Grammar Practice
Ms. Hernandez Trivia
100

This literary device gives human characteristics to a non human object.

What is personification?

100

This is the term for the part of town where people who recently become rich live.

What is West Egg?

100

This is the font every MLA essay should be in.

What is Times New Roman?

100

I grew up with buckets, shovels, and nets waiting by the back door; hip-waders hanging in the closet; tide table charts covering the refrigerator door; and a microscope was sitting on the kitchen table.

A. NO CHANGE

B. Would Sit

C. Sitting

D. Sat

What is C. Sitting?

100

Ms. Hernandez moved to Ohio from this state.

What is Texas?

200

These two literary Devices are most confused with each other.

What is Metaphor and Similie?

200

Daisy was clutching this item when she claimed she wanted to call off the wedding with Tom.

What is a letter?

200
In your intro paragraph you need a thesis statement, a summary, and...

What is a road map to your essay?

200

Having studied, my mother is a marine biologist.

A. NO CHANGE

B. As my mother's interest is science, she is

C. My mother's occupation is that of

D. My mother is 

What is D. My mother is?

200

This month is the month Ms. Hernandez gets married.

What is December?

300

What literary device is being described in this description.

"In To Kill a Mockingbird, when Atticus tells his children Jem and Scout that it's a sin to kill a mockingbird because mockingbirds cause no harm to anyone; they just sing. Because of these traits, mockingbirds in the novel represent innocence and beauty"

What is Symbolism?

300

Gatsby recognizes Nick because of this.

What is they were in the same war together?

300

This website will help create MLA work cited citations.

What is Mybib?

300

Everything was subservient to the disposal of the tides.

A. NO CHANGE

B. Was defenceless in the face of the 

C. Depended on

D. trusted in 

What is C. Depended on?

300

This chocolate is Ms. Hernandez's favorite chocolate.

What is Hersheys? 

400

This passage is an example of: 

"She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?" - from Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

What is a metaphor?

400

Daisy and Gatsby do this, which leads to Tom finding out about the affair.

What is they exchanged glances together at a dinner party.

400

You must do this action before every paragraph.

What is indent?
400

I grew up with buckets, shovels, and nets waiting by the back door; hip-waders hanging in the closet; tide table charts covering the refrigerator door; and a microscope was sitting on the kitchen table.

A. NO CHANGE

B.waiting, by the back door,

C. waiting by the back door,

D. waiting by the back door

What is A. NO CHANGE

400

Ms. Hernandez is _____ years old.

What is 24?

500

This literary device is being described in this description.

Frankenstein's creature learns to speak in part by reading Milton's Paradise Lost, and so his language is advanced and elevated, full of thee's, thy's, and thou's. He has this elegant, formal speech but the Creature is ugly with deformed features and terrible strength that creates an uncanny, terrifying effect.

What is Juxtaposition?

500

This scenario happens, causing Myrtle to be killed by Daisy.

What is jumping in front of Gatsby's car?

500

These four things make up a MLA essay heading.

What is your name, your teachers name, course, and date?

500

The moon being aligned with Earth and the sun when full or new.

A. NO CHANGE

B. Since the moon is

C. The moon is

D. The moon

What is C. The moon is?

500

This is Ms. Hernandez's zodiac sign.

What is Gemini?