"______is known by thirst" is Dickinson's way of saying a need is only realized when it is absent.
What is "Water"?
100
A glove that is thrown down, which symbolizes a challenge.
What is a gauntlet?
100
In this Shakespearean drama, "star-crossed lovers" are denied their love because of "a name."
What is Romeo and Juliet?
100
This author penned works on the disillusionment of World War I, and the battles of an old man with the roaring sea.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
100
I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--
The stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air
Between the Heaves of Storm ( Dickinson)
Is a good example of this.
What is near rhyme?
200
When Dimmesdale sees Chillingworth during the "Vigil" scene, he points to him and says, "I ______ __________ _________!"
What is "I HATE THAT MAN!"
200
To go round in circles, roundabout...
What is circuitous?
200
This play's genre is most suitably a COMEDY, for it features the downfall of a Jew, the topic of many Christian jokes.
What is The Merchant of Venice?
200
Judge Hawthorne in Miller's The Crucible is the ancestor of the famous author who penned the story of Hester Prynne.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
200
Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout…
is an example of this device.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
300
The final words in A Farewell to Arms reminds us of the theme throughout the novel. He walks alone in the ______.
What is "rain?"
300
Another word for rain, and it begins with p.
What is precipitate?
300
This drama was written during the McCarthy era and dramatizes the events that led to the Salem witchcraft trials of the 1620s.
What is The Crucible?
300
"I could not stop for death" and "I heard a fly buzz when I died" were both written by this poet, whose works were only known posthumously.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
300
"As two spent swimmers, that do cling together" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is simile.
400
Shakespeare's Macbeth opens with these famous paradoxical lines: "Fair ________ _____________ and ____________ is ___________."
What is "Fair is foul and foul is fair."
400
Witches and wizards deal with the supernatural, and this word is synonymous with magic.
What is occult?
400
Shakespeare utilized this type of verse when writing most of his plays.
What is blank verse?
400
Transcendentalism traversed the American landscape thanks to this writer.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
400
out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more:
This comparison is known as this.
What is metaphor?
500
An aphorism in today's culture draws its inspiration from this line in Macbeth: "Can the _______speak true?"
What is "Devil"
500
This word has its origin in Greek mythology, and is synonymous with "mighty".
What is herculean?
500
A Shakespearean drama has this amount of acts.
What is five?
500
This author described the decadent lifestyle of the roaring twenties in an American classic.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
500
Murderer: My lord, his throat is cut.
Macbeth: Thou art the best of the cut-throats
Is an example of this device.