Flies & Raisin
Grammar
Literary Terms
Writing
Literary Trivia
100

Who is the main antagonist in Lord of the Flies?

Jack

100

Hand me your test. 

What's the subject? 

Implied you 

100

Really descriptive language that relates to one or more of your senses

Imagery

100

In analytical writing, always avoid personal ________.

Pronouns 

100

Poet and playwright who wrote Hamlet

Shakespeare 

200

Who says the following? 

 "Here I am a giant--surrounded by ants!"  

Walter 

200

Receives the action 

Direct Object 

200

A comparison that uses the words "like" or "as"

Simile

200

The sentence that establishes the main point of an essay

Thesis Statement

200

What was the pen name of Eric Blair?

George Orwell

300

Which character suggests of the beast that "maybe it's only us"? 

Simon 

300

Kick me the ball. What is "me"? 

Indirect object 

300

Using objects, people, etc. to represent ideas 

Symbolism

300

The first sentence in an introduction paragraph/ what grabs your reader's attention 

hook 

300

Novel in which a character is told to "stay gold" 

The Outsiders

400

What's ONE thing that Langston Hughes compares a dream to?

Rotten meat, candy, a raisin, a heavy load, a bomb?

400

My mom is a dentist

What is "dentist" in this sentence?

Predicate noun 

400

An unreliable narrator or sunny imagery matched with a horrifying ending would both be examples of...

irony 

400

Write about a story in the _______ tense. 

present 

400

Poet who wrote "Two woods diverged in a wood, and I/ --I took the one less traveled by."

Robert Frost 

500

Who pushes the rock on Piggy and has a stick "sharpened on both ends"? 

Roger 

500
Ends in "ing" and is a verb acting as a noun 

gerund 

500

A literary device that means exaggeration

Hyperbole

500

How would you correctly cite a quote from an author named Sue Fisher that appears on page 34?

(Fisher 34) 


following the quotation

500

Author of Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens