Tone
Reading Skills
Figurative Language
Symbolism
Besties' Facts
100

Tone is 

How the author feels about certain characters or events in a story. 

100

In literature, what does personification mean?

What is giving human traits to nonhuman things 

100

Define Figurative Language

What is phrases not meant to be literal

100

Symbolism is...

Giving words or phrases meanings other than their literal ones. 

100

Who are the Besties?

What is Eggleston and Lusk <3

200

The difference between tone and mood is

What is tone is the attitude that an author takes toward a work and mood is how the reader feels after having read the work. 

200

What is the meaning of the Latin suffix -ion, which appears in the words confusion and suspicion?

What is the act or condition of

200

Two types of figurative language that compare are

What is metaphors and similes 

200

What did the greasers hair symbolize in the Outsiders 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYjOUpRuwWs 1:15

What is pride and respect  

200

What is the Besties' favorite hour? 

What is second hour

300

What is the tone:

"I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noise steadily increased. Why WOULD they not be gone? I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the observations of the men, but the noise steadily increased. O God! What COULD I do?” (Poe)

What is nervousness, insanity, guilt.

300

What is typically found in a thesaurus?


What is synonyms and antonyms 

300

What is the meaning of the metaphor:

The big job was not yet finished, but Nathan could see the light at the end of the tunnel.

What is the completion of a difficult task 

300

What does an eagle usually symbolize

Freedom

300

Where is the Besties' favorite place to go on plan?

What is Chick-Fil-A

400

What is mood:

I am in the birds that sing,
I am in each lovely thing.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there. I do not die. (Frye)

What is peaceful, content. 

400

Using context clues, choose the correct meaning of the French phrase faux pas in this sentence:

The diplomat studied local customs so that she would not make a faux pas at the important ceremony.

What is a social mistake

400

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called" (Shakespeare)

What is being compared to what

Romeo to a rose

400

What is the important symbol in this clip and what does it represent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzH-gn4d5wY 1:00

The badge and it represents pride and love 

400

What is the name of the Besties' text group?

What is the Queens

500

What is the mood:

And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don't know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn't the best. We complained about it. So we've got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we've got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing. (Barthelme)

What is mournful. 

500

Read this passive-voice sentence:

There will be ten performances, beginning June 21st and ending July 1st.

How can this sentence be revised by using the active voice to emphasize who is doing the action?  

What is The cast will perform the play ten times between June 21st and July 1st. 

500

What is being compared:

"A nation wearing atomic armor is like a knight whose armor has grown so heavy he is immobilized; he can hardly walk, hardly sit his horse, hardly think, hardly breathe. The H-bomb is an extremely effective deterrent to war, but it has little virtue as a weapon of war, because it would leave the world uninhabitable." (White)

What is the H-bomb is being compared to armor that restricts a soldier. 

500

What is a symbol in the Tell-Tale Heart and what does it represent?

What is the eye, which represents evil, 

or the heart, which symbolizes the narrator's guilt and conscience

500

Lusk and Eggleston aren't in their rooms...where are they?

What is Mrs. Gatlin's room