Vocabulary
Doing the right thing when no one is looking.
What is integrity?
A word that means the same as another word.
What is a synonym?
A “cask of” this sherry figures prominently in an Edgar Allan Poe tale.
What is amontillado?
Celia Keenan-Bolger won a 2019 Tony as this daughter in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Who is Scout?
If it belongs to you, prove it by correctly using this piece of punctuation.
What is an apostrophe?
Boring, ordinary
What is mundane or banal?
It’s the central message in a literary work; in music it precedes “and variations”
What is theme?
Readers’ letters to Shirley Jackson about this 1948 short story asked where the title event was held & if they could go & watch.
What is "The Lottery"?
This lawyer from a famed 1960 novel shares a name with an ancient Roman renowned for his wisdom.
Who is Atticus?
On keyboards you’ll find a comma by itself and as part of this other punctuation mark.
What is a semicolon?
Overly flattering; suck up
What is a sycophant?
It’s the overall emotion created by a work, or in grammar, a verb form like subjunctive or imperative.
What is mood?
This narrator of a Poe story lures Fortunato to his doom with the promise of a fine Spanish sherry.
Who is Montresor?
She published under her middle name; her first name was Nelle, Ellen backward, in honor of her grandmother Ellen Finch.
Who is Harper Lee?
When writing a list or using multiple verbs in one sentence, it is recommended to follow this format.
What is parallel structure?
The feeling that something bad is going to happen.
What is foreboding?
Fortunato's bells
What is a motif?
This classic short story's ending is a question (with no answer).
What is "The Lady or The Tiger"?
The family name of the "victim" in To Kill a Mockingbird.
What is Ewell?
The comma named for this school often precedes the words “and” and “or”.
What is Oxford?
almost flawless; nearly perfect
What is infallible?
This story about two brothers has a title referencing a specific colored bird.
What is "The Scarlet Ibis"?
In 1828, actor Thomas Rice began playing a blackface character named this, a term later used to describe racist laws.
What is Jim Crow?
Strunk and White’s 5th rule of usage says, do not join independent clauses with this; use a semicolon, as we just did.
What is a comma?