Show:
Literary Terms
Othello
Poetry
Random
MCAS
100
Time, season, location, historical era all pertain to this.
What is setting?
100
The main setting of the play.
What is Cyprus?
100
Bam! Boom!
What is Onomatopoeia?
100
Giving non-human things human characteristics
What is personification?
100
List the order of the three days of testing
What is two days of readings and open responses and one day of long composition.
200
This is the highest point of tension or drama in a plot
What is the climax?
200
He is the gull Iago manipulates throughout the play.
Who is Roderigo?
200
These are sections of poems.
What are stanzas?
200
What are the three parts to this word? unhappiness
What are the prefix, the base word, and the suffix?
200
Name two multiple strategies
What are process of elimination and bracketing?
300
He or she must have a flaw that causes a downfall.
What is a tragic hero?
300
The piece of evidence that turns Othello against Desdemona.
What is the handkerchief?
300
The captain couldn't keep the men in the cabin is a example of this poetic device.
What is alliteration?
300
Jocasta gouges out her eyes for this reason - and it's not just because her husband was her son!
What is because she failed to see the truth?
300
You should remember this acronym for Open Responses
What is AEEEEEE?
400
this is a comparison used without like or as
What is a metaphor?
400
This is the metaphor Iago uses to describe jealousy.
What is the green eyed monster?
400
The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme
What is rhyme scheme?
400
List tragic flaw do Othello, Okonkwo, and Creon have in common?
What is pride?
400
The MCAS usually contains what 4 genres of readings.
What is poetry, non-fiction, fiction, and drama?
500
Verbal, dramatic, and situational are all types of this.
What is irony?
500
This major theme is displayed during the 'hidden conversation"
What is appearance vs. reality?
500
A sonnet is divided this way
What is 3 quatrains and a couplet.
500
Recite the riddle of the Sphinx that Oedipus solved and explain its' metaphor.
What is "What goes on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon, and three feet in the evening?" Life.
500
This acronym is a helpful reminder of what you need to put in an essay, but it is a little creepy to say.
What is HOT MEAT?