Authors
Essential Question
Genres
Etymology of WOD
Literary Elements
100

Gulliver's travels

Johathan Swift

100

Which of these inferences about Gulliver and the Lilliputians is best supported by the excerpt from Chapter lV?

D. The Lilliputians freed Gulliver in hopes he would fight for them.

100

Gulliver Travels is...

a work of fiction 

100

From French meaning "an untying"

Denounement 

100

Refers to when and where a story occurs 

setting

200

Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley

200

Which of these lines from the poem best supports the correct answer to question 3?

D. in the black mirror/ a woman's trying to erase name:/ No, she's brushing a boy's hair.

200

The poem "Facing it" is...

a free verse poem 

200

From the word bissextus, which refers to February 29th 

Bissextile 

200

The same sound or letter at the beginning of multiple words in a sentence or phrase 

Alliteration 

300

Ode on a Grecian Urn

John Keats

300

Which phrase best supports the meaning of offended in paragraph 1?

D. "sun began to grow hot"

300

Ode on a grecian urn is....

Romantic Poetry 

300

From new Latin and means mode of working 

Modus operandi 

300

Important aspects of a story 

plot 

400

Facing it

Yusef Komunyakaa

400

Which definition of the homonyms of ligature best fits the way the word is used in paragraph 1?

C. something that is used to tie or bind 

400

Ozymandias is a...

Sonnet 

400

Comes from Yiddish kveln meaning "to be delegated"

Kvell

400

the use of words and descriptions to create mental images 

Imagery 

500

Liberty Tree

Thomas Paine

500

Which of the following adjectives best explains Gulliver's attitude toward the Lilliputians in paragraph 4 of Chapter l?

C. unfazed 

500

Hawaii"s Story by Hawaii's queen is a...

Autobiography 

500

Comes from synchronous from the greek word meaning "together in time"

Synchronicity 

500

Phrase that conveys the sound of something 

Onomatopoeia