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100
This is the author of The Odyssey
Who is Homer?
100
This means content or happy
What is jocund?
100
This is the character in the story who always says funny things and makes the audience laugh. Examples: BB-8 Chewbacca
What is the trickster?
100
Sometimes when I ride my bike, especially in the morning. This is an example of a(n) ______________.
What is a fragment?
100
This is Holden's Roommate's name
Who is Stradlater?
200
This is the name of the Goddess who protects Odysseus.
Who is Athena?
200
This word would describe someone's behavior that clearly demonstrated that the person intended to do harm.
What is malevolence.
200
This is a comparison between two or more objects using like or as, but also lasts three lines or longer (more than a one word answer).
What is a Homeric Simile?
200
All of them watches the game intently. The above grammar is (Correct/Incorrect) because ___________________.
What is: This is a subject verb agreement error "All of" references more than one person, which takes on a plural verb.
200
This is the author of "A Raisin in the Sun"
Who is Lorraine Hansberry?
300
This is the name of the blind prophet who shows up in both Antigone and The Odyssey
Who is Tiresias?
300
This group of ____________ tell Macbeth and Banquo their prophecies.
What are beldams?
300
This is the step in the hero's journey when the hero leaves the ordinary world, and goes into the special world
What is Crossing the Threshold?
300
Identify and fix the errors in the following sentence: I go to the store in the morning I drive to school after I work out.
I go to the store in the morning, and I drive to school after I work out. I go to the store, and in the morning, I drive to school after I work out.
300
This the effect the text has on a reader's emotions.
What is mood?
400
This character from the Odyssey would also be known as the "The Shadow" in the hero's journey character list.
Who is Poseidon?
400
Macbeth is the __________. This is because nobody comes close to him in terms of savagery and ruthlessness.
What is nonpareil.
400
Using the word "determined" as opposed to using the word "persistent" is an example of this.
What is diction?
400
Add two fragments to the following sentence: I go to wrestling practice.
What is After school, I go to wrestling practice with my students.
400
This is the difference between George Murchison and Joseph Asagai:
What is: George is an assimilationist who attends college in the US. He has a lot of money, and was born in the United States.
500
These are the two tragic heros and the one epic hero that we have have read about this term (three texts - three characters).
Who is Creon (Sends his own nieces to die and sees his family perish in the process. Tragic Hero - Causes own Downfall) Who is Macbeth (Wants to be king and rule the land but loses everything because of it. Tragic Hero - Causes own Downfall) Who is Odysseus (Epic Hero - Doesn't Die)
500
There is nobody for the desire for more power than Macbeth. This desire is also known as ___________.
What is Avarice?
500
Rob Gronkowski is an animal on the football field and is as quick as a cat. The football often smiles back at him before he spikes it. When he blocks players on the line, he yells, "You shall not pass!", just like Gandalf from Lord of the Rings. Name every piece of figurative language or literary term used in the above passage.
Metaphor Simile Personification Allusion Simile
500
I like to run in the morning: however there are often times where running can make me too tired to finish the day, I need to get more sleep. Fix the sentence above.
I like to run in the morning; however, there are often times where running can make me too tired to finish the day. I need to get more sleep
500
This is what "A Raisin in the Sun" and "Of Mice and Men" have in common.
What is your answer?