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Secondary stories all tying into one main story.
What is a frame story?
100
The form of government being criticized in "Animal Farm."
What is Communism?
100
Beowulf is this kind of poem.
What is a folk epic?
100
A journey of moral or spiritual significance.
What is a pilgrimage?
100
In Macbeth, these characters said, "Foul is fair, and fair is foul".
Who are the Witches?
200
The classification of Shakespeare's play Macbeth.
What is a tragedy?
200
The pig in "Animal Farm" who was exiled by Napoleon and his dogs.
Who is Snowball?
200
Compound metaphors used to describe objects or activities.
What is kenning?
200
Wrote the Canterbury Tales.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
200
This man wrote Macbeth.
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
The process of developing a character's personality.
What is characterization?
300
The first ghost to visit Ebenezer Scrooge.
Who is Jacob Marley?
300
This king hired Beowulf to rid his mead hall of Grendel.
Who is Hrothgar?
300
A form of poetry popular with the lower class, often involving the supernatural.
What are ballads?
300
Famous form of poetry, very popular in Renaissance culture, usually written in iambic pentameter and includes 14 lines.
What are sonnets?
400
A poetic meter with five stresses and 10 syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
400
Ebenezer Scrooge sends this to Bob Cratchit's home anonymously on Christmas Day.
What is a turkey?
400
The people Beowulf was hero of.
Who are the Geats?
400
The exemplum tale involving three men who tried to cheat death, and ended up killing one another over a pile of gold.
What is "The Pardoners Tale"?
400
This character was not "born of woman" and was allegedly the only man who could kill Macbeth.
Who is Macduff?
500
A short story meant to teach a moral lesson (The Pardoners Tale.)
What is an exemplum?
500
"Animal Farm" is this kind of story.
What is a satire?
500
Beowulf used these to defeat Grendel.
What is his hands?
500
This man owned the Tabard Inn and was the judge of story quality in "The Canterbury Tales".
Who is Harry Bailey?
500
In Macbeth, this character attempts to wash imaginary blood from her clothing in a fit of anxiety.
Who is Lady Macbeth?