Oh, the words you'll know!
This verb means "to stop by force or put down."
What is suppress?
This literary element is a comparison of two things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
This literary technique is a clue to mislead or distract the reader/audience.
What is a red herring?
Shirley foreshadows the end of the story when the children do this in the beginning.
What is collect stones?
In "Only Daughter," the narrator's father sends her to college for this reason.
What is to find a husband?
This Wyncote school that closed in 2021 is where Ms. Greenberg went to high school.
What is McDevitt?
This verb means "to go abroad; to make a start; to invest."
What is embark?
This literary element gives an inanimate object human characteristics.
What is personification?
This first setting we see provides important characterization about Justice Wargrave.
Where is the first class train car?
The tea the landlady gives Billy tastes like this, which potentially suggests the tea is poisoned with cyanide.
What is bitter almonds?
Stone creates an extended metaphor using this object to discuss the importance of connecting with different perspectives in "Hi. I'm Nic."
What are shoes?
Ms. Greenberg has two of these.
What are cats?
This adjective means "having limits; lasting for a limited time."
What is finite?
This type of conflict is when a character struggles against another character(s) or a situation.
What is external conflict?
This question from Shawn serves as the last words of Long Way Down.
What is "you coming?"
Poe uses this literary device to convey madness in the narrator.
What is repetition?
The narrator's mother gave her daughter this gift, along with some advice about being herself, for Christmas, in Amy Tan's "Fish Cheeks."
What is a miniskirt?
Down on City Line Avenue in West Philadelphia, you'll find Ms. Greenberg's alma mater.
What is Saint Joseph's University?
This adjective means "refined in manner or style; suave."
What is urbane?
There are three types of point-of-view an author can implement. This one tells the story from an outside perspective but focuses on only one character.
What is third-person limited?
The righteous Emily Brent had no mercy for Beatrice Taylor when this happened to the servant girl.
What is get pregnant out of wedlock?
Despite showing up late, this character "wins" the lottery!
Who is Tessie Hutchinson?
Alvarez's sixth grade teacher in "My English" helped her students learn English by having them do this sort of activity.
What is creative writing?
On Faculty Music Friday, Ms. Greenberg selected a song from this artist to play over the speakers.
Who is Stevie Nicks?
This noun means "a hint; an indirect suggestion."
What is intimation?
This literary and rhetorical device describes exaggeration to an extreme degree.
What is hyperbole?
The Rules Will Holloman lived his life by involve these three things.
Crying, snitching, and revenge.
In "The Tell-Tale Heart," we debated whether or we could trust the story being told, which is the name of this concept.
What is narrator reliability?
The narrator has a crush on this boy in "Fish Cheeks."
Who is Robert?
Before her tragic knee injury, Ms. Greenberg definitely could have gone pro in these two sports she played in high school.
What are field hockey and lacrosse?