Literary Devices
This class is as easy as pie.
What is a simile?
The period in which both of the texts we've covered so far were published.
What is the Postmodern Period?
A Shakesperean sonnet is composed of ___ lines.
What is 14?
Ms. Maudie; "It’s like angels’ breath this evening.”; secret friendship
What are mimosas?
Turns out, New Year's Day in 1752 was a precursor of Flag Day due to her birth in Pennsylvania.
Who is Betsy Ross?
Tom took ten terrible tests.
What is alliteration?
A literary period that looked to navigate our relationship with nature. Notable artists of the period include Walt Whitman and W.B. Yeats.
What is Romanticism?
The century in which R&J was published.
What is the 16th century?
Ms. Dubose; “Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you?"; innocence
What are camellias?
From the French for "to glue", it's the form of art in which pieces of paper or other materials are glued to canvas.
What is collage?
"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky..."
What is personification?
The period in which "Sea Fever" was published.
Romeo's surname.
What is Montague?
Mayella Ewell; "...cared for as tenderly as if they belonged to Miss Maudie Atkinson..."; hope/warning
What are geraniums?
The nickname of Fast and Furious Star Mark Sinclair Vincent.
Who is Vin Diesel?
"Jem says I was. He read in a book where I was a Bullfinch instead of a Finch. Jem says my name’s really Jean Louise Bullfinch, that I got swapped when I was born and I’m really a..."
What is an allusion?
The period directly before the Edwardian Period.
What is the Victorian Period?
The first of the pair to die.
Who is Romeo?
The 3rd item found in the Radley Place Tree.
What is a pack of gum?
The final sentence of the introductory paragraph of a Literary Analysis.
What is a thesis statement?
"I fear too early, for my mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night’s revels, and expire the term Of a despisèd life closed in my breast By some vile forfeit of untimely death."
What is foreshadowing?
The period in which Shakespeare produced his work, primarily.
What is the Elizabethan Period?
The Balcony Scene.
What is Act 2 Scene 2?
_______ tells Jem and Scout: “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
Who is Ms. Maudie?
A person that DOES NOT believe that Shakespeare produced all of his works.
What is an anti-Stratfordian?