This dark-haired, chisel-jawed hero of our story is shocked by the question "Are you happy?" and questions everything he has ever known.
Who is Guy Montag?
100
Juliet's family and one half of the famous Verona feud
Who are the Capulets?
100
"A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse," is an example of this.
What is iambic pentameter?
100
Juliet vehemently calls Romeo "A damned saint! An honourable villain!" This is an example of this literary device.
What is an oxymoron?
100
A topic sentence for an entire paper; the contract between you and your reader
What is a thesis?
200
A beast that is used to euthanize undesirable members of society; nearly attacks the main character on more than one occasion
What is the Mechanical Hound?
200
The only "villain" of the play; dies after being stabbed by Romeo
Who is Tybalt?
200
Hannah has written a play. In one scene, her main character tells the audience that he is going to propose to his girlfriend tonight. Even though the girlfriend is on stage at the time, she does not hear the line. This section of her play is an example of this.
What is an aside?
200
When Romeo sees Juliet and exclaims "I have never seen true beauty before tonight," this is an example of this literary device. After all, he was just talking earlier about Rosaline's beauty, which he had obviously seen before!
What is hyperbole?
200
To rewrite something line for line, with complete ideas intact, in your own words
What is paraphrasing?
300
This girl smells like apricots and communes with Nature; she dies when she is killed by recklessly driving teenagers
Who is Clarisse McCllelan?
300
The theatre where Romeo and Juliet and other Shakespearean plays were performed
What is the Globe Theatre?
300
Ray Bradbury mentions over 20 other books in Fahrenheit 451. These "mentions" are examples of this.
What are allusions?
300
"They leaped like deer on the moon."
This line from "Harrison Bergeron" is an example of this literary device.
What is a simile?
300
This syllable comes first in a line of iambic pentameter
What is the unstressed syllable?
400
A genre of fiction (often science fiction) that showcases a future world that is frightening and undesirable
What is dystopian?
400
A form of play in which the main character(s) are brought to ruin or extreme sorrow
What is tragedy?
400
“With the brass nozzle in his fists, the great python spitting its venomous kerosene on the world,” Guy Montag burns books. This quotation is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
400
"O heavy lightness!" Romeo exclaims. This is an example of this literary device.
What is an oxymoron?
400
A way of approaching a text that deconstructs it to find deeper meaning
What is critical analysis?
500
The control and limitation of ideas in society
What is censorship?
500
Quick-witted friend of Benvolio; quick to start a fight or comment on another character's manliness; dies in a sword fight
Who is Mercutio?
500
"For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, do ebb and flow with tears,"
This line, delivered to Juliet, is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
500
"You have dancing shoes with nimble soles; my soul is full of lead," Romeo tells his friends. This wordplay is an example of this literary device.