Stories
What the man in To Build a Fire failed to do that got him killed.
What is Build a Fire?
Romeo and Juliet takes place in this Italian town.
What is Verona?
Maycomb's boogeyman
Who is Boo Radley?
The way Mr. Cunnigham pays his legal debts to Atticus.
What is goods (food, crops, cotton, nuts)?
The motif exemplified by God telling Adam and Eve that they can go wherever they want and eat anything in the Garden of Eden except the Tree of the fruit of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
What is The One Forbidden Thing?
In A Worn Path, what an old woman went on a long trip to get
What is medicine?
The place where Romeo first sees Juliet.
What is the Capulet's masquerade party?
The Finch's black cook/ mother figure
Who is Calpurnia?
The crime Boo was alleged to have committed that got him locked away.
What is stab his father in the leg with scissors?
According to this motif, when a hero dies it is never in a fair fight but always due to this.
What is Betrayal?
What Dee (Wangero) tried to take in "Everyday Use" that her mother wouldn't let her.
What is Quilts?
The type of figurative language Mercutio uses when he says, "call for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man".
What is a pun?
The Greek hero who killed Medusa
Who is Perseus?
The injury Jem suffered when he was 13 years old.
What is a badly broken arm?
The name of the motif wherein a story starts "in the middle of the action".
What is "In Medias Res"?
Rob Bilott's legal campaign to help farmer Wilbur Tennant resulted in the widespread banning of this chemical compound.
What is PFOAs, C8, PFAS, fluorochemicals/ hydrocarbons?
The town that Romeo flees to in exile.
What is Mantua?
The white trash woman that falsely accused Tom Robinson of rape
Who is Mayella Ewell?
The thing Ms. Caroline told Scout she had to tell her father that made her so upset.
What is stop reading to/ teaching her?
The motif that always happens just after a Hero's Call to Adventure that is represented in Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" when Ender's tracker is removed at the start of the story.
What is Refusal of the Call to Adventure?
Name one mistake the man makes in Jack London's "To Build a Fire"
What is 1) left a fire, 2) built a fire under a tree, 3) struck all of his matches at once?
The part of Tragedy that occurs when the Montagues and Capulets are brought together at the end of the play.
What are the Restoration of Social Order?
The goddess that made Hercules go crazy and kill his children and wife.
Who is Hera?
The real life trial that Tom Robinson's trial was based on.
What is The Scottsboro Boys trial?
The motif where an older mentor figure always shows up early in the story when the hero is at his lowest point and gives him a boon to help him complete his trial.
What is The Wise Old Man?