The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
100
Also known as the "Great War," lasted from 1914 to 1919. Involved 32 nations, 20 million people died, new weapons: machine guns, poison gases, airplane bombers and submarines.
What is World War I?
100
Name the poet:"i carry your heart with me (i carry it in)"
Who is e.e. cummings?
100
Name the author:"Farewell to Arms"
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
100
Name the poet: "Out, out-"
Who is Robert Frost?
200
The repetition of vowel sounds in words.
What is assonance?
200
A global war that last from 1939 to 1945. Over 60 million people were killed. It ended with the dropping of the atomic bomb in Japan.
What is World War II?
200
Name the poet:"If We Must Die"
Who is Claude McKay?
200
Name the author: "How It Feels to be Colored Me?"
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
200
The period from 1920-1933, in which alcohol was made illegal.
What is prohibition?
300
Language that communicates any ideas beyond the literal meaning of words.
What is figurative language?
300
In October of 1929 stocks took a nosedive in this event.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
300
Name the poet:"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Who is Robert Frost?
300
Name the author: "Winter Dreams"
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
300
Name the author: "A Rose for Emily"
Who is William Faulkner?
400
An indirect reference to a person, place, event or literary work within which the author believes the reader will be familiar.
What is allegory?
400
A period of severe drought and dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage.
What is the Dust Bowl?
400
Name the poet: "Mother to Son"
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
Name the author: "The Grapes of Wrath"
Who is John Steinbeck?
400
An emancipated young women who embraced new fashions and the urban attitudes of the day.
Who are flappers?
500
A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or for humorous effect.
What is hyperbole?
500
The decade of the 1920s regarded as a boisterous era of prosperity, fast cars, jazz, speakeasies and wild youth.
What is the Roaring Twenties?
500
Name the poet: "The Red Wheel Barrow"
Who is William Carlos Williams?
500
Name the author: "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
Who is Katherine Anne Porter?
500
A technique developed by modernist writers to present the flow of a character's seemingly unconnected thoughts, responses, and sensations.