Literature
What is the name of the ancient tale that tells the story of Odysseus and his trials and adventures before he finally returns home to Iliad?
What is The Odyssey?
Joseph Campbell coined the term ________, which describes a similar pattern that many stories - across time and cultures - often follow. We learned about this in The Odyssey.
What is the monomyth? Or what is the hero's journey?
Which is correct:
A. I had homeworks today, I had to tell my friend to stop bothering me so I could finish.
B. I had so much homework today, I had to tell my friend to stop bothering me so I could finish.What is B?
The best writers are _________.
What is rewriters?
"People like what they eat, not eat what they like." Which book did we read about this idea and what does it mean?
What is Mary Roach's Gulp? And what is people are conditioned to like certain foods based on society or the environments they live in and what they are given as children, not because they choose to like them naturally?
Who is credited for The Odyssey and The Iliad and what kind of work did he do?
Who is Homer, the traveling minstrel, bard, poet, rhapsode?
What is the vantage point from which a story is told?
What is narrative point of view?
How do I change the verb were to past tense?
What is I can't because it's already past tense?
Writing has many different purposes. To inform, persuade, entertain, etc. List the different purposes we have written this year.
What is story-telling, expressing, reflecting, analyzing, informing, and persuading?
In Factfulness, Hans Rosling shows us that the world is no longer a dichotomy between "developing" and "developed" or between "the West" and "the Rest." Looking at data, he shows us that the world is really divided into 4 income levels, with 5 billion people living in the middle income levels. If the population of the world is 7 billion now, how many people live on the first level of income and the 4th level of income?
What is 1 billion on each of those levels? (Now only 13 countries or 6% of the world lives in "developing" countries.)
What type of poem was Shakespeare known to be a master at?
What is a sonnet?
"I totally bombed my exam and my mom is going to kill me!" This statement is an example of what type of literary device?
What is a hyperbole?
Which is correct:
A. My teacher told me I had to use an database, but it could be any kind, even Google!
B. My teacher told me I had to use a database, but it could be any kind, even Google!
C. My teacher told me I had to use the database, but it could be any kind, even Google!
What is B?
What is the backbone of an essay - it tells the reader at the beginning what the rest of the essay will address?
What is thesis statement(s)?
Which famous character from Shakespeare says these lines:
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
Who is Juliet?
Authors will often weave a repeating object, idea, or word throughout a story to lead the reader to the theme of the story. What could this be called?
What is a motif? (Or, what is a symbol?)
We see faulty thinking all around us, but because we are often swayed by authority or popular opinion, we may miss these ________.
What is fallacies?
True or False: I can start a sentence with because or and.
What is true?
In formal writing, there are different formatting guidelines to follow. Some teachers or professors require APA or _____.
What is MLA?
Mrs. Elshoff has lived in _______ countries?
What is 8? (Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Pakistan, Poland, USA, Japan)
Literature is meant to illuminate the human experience so that we can live in others' experiences and see the common humanity that we all share. What are the universal messages authors convey that transcend time and culture called?
What are themes?
The best way to acquire vocabulary deeply is not to memorize lists of words, but to _____ for pleasure and learn Latin _____ ______.
What is read and root words?
If I start a sentence with because, it must be as a ________ing conjunction, which means it will have a comma after the dependent clause. An example of this is__________?
What is "Because I am so good at grammar, I aced this random Jeopardy game!"
In writing, it's not so much the amount of text or the length of the sentence that counts, it's more the ________ that counts.
What is quality? What is effectiveness?
The human brain is wired for sight and sound, but not for _______. _______ came into existence over the span of 2,000 years of human history and it takes every child about 2,000 days to learn to _______. The kind of deep thinking that ______ requires literally shapes our cognitive processes and our brains and help us see the world from many perspectives.
What is reading?