Short Stories
This is a mythical story about Daedalus and his wayward son
What is the story of Icarus
This Shakespearian play is set in Verona, Italy and deals with young love, family feuds, and suicide!
What is Romeo and Juliet
This is the term for when an author gives a hint as to what is going to happen later on in the story
What is Foreshadowing
Introductory words, phrases, and clauses need this type of punctuation to separate it from the independent clause.
What is a comma?
This Percy Bysshe Shelly poem supposedly written about Ramses II
What is Ozymandias
This short story, by Shirley Jackson, may have been the inspiration for The Hunger Games trilogy.
What is "The Lottery"?
This play, by Arthur Miller, is set in 1692 in Massachusetts, is a historical fiction representation of true life trials of the time period.
What is "The Crucible"?
This is a term for a situation in which the audience understands something that the character does not
What is Irony
This is the term for a complete though including a subject and a predicate
What is a Sentence
This lead character went to fight in the Trojan War and was unable to come home for 20 years
Who is Odysseus
This story's beginning is focused around two brothers and a sister who are playing a game called Buggers and Astronauts
What is Ender's Game
This play, assumed to have been written by Socrates, is the source for the psychological term "Oedipus Complex."
What is Oedipus Rex, Oedipus the King, or Oedipus Tyrannus.
What is a hyperbole?
This type of conjunction can introduce a clause at the beginning of a sentence (and would require a comma) or in the middle of a sentence (which would not require a comma).
What is a subordinate conjunction?
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In this historical document written on the Eve of Christmas 1776, Thomas Paine identifies the obstacles the colonists faced in the war with Britain and effectively rallied the troops to win the Battle of Trenton.
What is "Crisis No. 1"?
In this short story by William Carlos Williams, the main character, Mathilda, never speaks to her parents or the doctor. It is her defiant actions that create her characterization.
What is "The Use of Force"?
These characters in Shakespeare's Macbeth, are famous for saying, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair:/ Hover through fog and filthy air."
This literary term is present when the author makes a direct or indirect reference to another work of historical, political, cultural, or literary significance.
What is an allusion?
This is the term for a verb functioning as a noun
What is a Gerund
This is the name of the contraption that allowed enemy soldiers to breach the walls of Troy
What is a Trojan Horse
Ambrose Bierce, the author of several Civil War Era short stories, wrote this story about a man's perceptions of being hanged.
Who is "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"?
In a play, an act of speaking one's thought aloud when by oneself for the benefit of the audience.
What is a soliloquy?
This is a rhetorical device where an author purposefully repeats a word or phrase at the beginning of consecutive clauses or sentences.
What is anaphora?
This is the term for a word, phrase, or clause that modifies the meaning of a verb or an adjective
What is an Adverb
The Island of Dr. Moreau was based on this specific are of science