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a recurring word, phrase, symbol, image in a literary work
What is motif?
100
a type of government that is dependent upon religion
What is a theocracy?
100
"There be no blush about my name."
Who is Abilgail Williams from The Crucible?
100
Mrs. Tessie Hutchinson
What is Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery"?
100
He wrote "Civil Disobedience."
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
200
a comparison that does not use like or as
What is a metaphor?
200
of the devil
What is diabolism?
200
He had come like a thief in the night. And each one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died in the despairing posture of his fall.
Who is the narrator from "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe?
200
Rev. Samuel Parris
What is Arthur's Miller play, The Crucible?
200
He was Thoreau's mentor.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
300
words or prhases repeated for effect
What is repetition?
300
anger derived from unjustice
What is indignation?
300
"There is a prodigious danger in the seeking out of loose spirits."
Who is Rebecca Nurse from Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible?
300
Jem Finch
What is Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird?
300
Lawrence and Lee
Who wrote The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail?
400
visions that the author's words create
What is imagery?
400
a person whose actions that differ from stated beliefs
What is hypocrite?
400
"Entailments were bad," I was advising him, when I slowly awoke to the fact that I was addressing the entire aggregation. The men were all looking at me, some had their mouths half-open.
Who is Scout from Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird?
400
Miss Maudie, Calpurnia, and Miss Caroline
What is Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird?
400
She is known for her short poems and her solitary lifestyle.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
500
repeating initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
500
to atone for sins
What is penitence?
500
When the doctor's came, they said she had died of heart disease - of the joy that kills.
Who is Mrs. Louise Mallard from Kate Chopin's short story, "The Story of an Hour"?
500
Edna
What is Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening?
500
AP Lit teacher
Who is Mr. Klimas?