Stories
Rhetorical devices
Writers
100

Which novel evolves around an abandoned city and a broken relationship? 

What is "The end of something?"

100

What are the three modes of persuasion?

What are ethos, pathos and logos? 

100

Who wrote "Hills like white elephants?"

Who is Ernest Hemmingway?

200

Recite Hemmingways shortest poem. 

Hint: Starting with "For sale". 

What is "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

200

What rhetorical device makes a comparison between two unlike things? 

What is a metaphor? 

200

Who wrote "Popular mechanics"? 

Who is Raymond Carver? 

300

Which novelle is this from? 

He took a glass out of the carton. He took the newspaper off the glass. He broke the seal on the whiskey. 

"How about the TV?" the boy said. 

"Twenty-five."

"Would you take fifteen?" the girl said. 

"Fifteen's okay. I could take fifteen," the man said. 

What is "Why don't you dance?"

300

What is a parataxis? 

What are short simple sentences placed side by side? 

300

Which one of the writers we worked with practiced dirty realism? 

Who is Raymond Carver?