Shakespeare
Literary Terms
Gatsby
Years Past
Grammar, Usage, and Style
100

The form of poem that Shakespeare used most often.

What is the sonnet?

100

Descriptive language that engages the senses in a story, poem, or other literary work.

What is imagery?

100

Tom's wife and Tom's mistress.

Who are Daisy and Myrtle?

100

The seventh and most important commandment in Animal Farm.

What is "All animals are equal"?

100

The acronym that helps recall the first letters of the coordinating conjunctions.

What is FANBOYS?

200

The street name in Brooklyn Heights that is also the family name of one of Shakespeare's young lovers.

What is Montague?

200

The poetic equivalent of the "narrator" in a story, novel, or other piece of prose.

What is the speaker of a poem?

200

The poetic phrase that Fitzgerald uses to describe the forlorn industrial area about halfway between West Egg and Manhattan.

What is the "valley of ashes"?

200

The town where Little Fires Everywhere takes place.

What is Shaker Heights, Ohio?

200

"she", "who", "myself", "his", "which", and "them" are examples of this part of speech.

What is a pronoun?

300

The character in Hamlet who declares that "brevity is the soul of wit."

Who is Polonius?

300

Poetry in which the rhythm does not follow a regular, repeating pattern.

What is free verse?

300

What Nick sees when he "glance[s] seaward" at the end of Chapter One.

What is "a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of a dock."

300

The village that is the main setting in Things Fall Apart.

What is Umuofia?

300

The part of a sentence that includes a verb and states something about the subject.

What is a predicate?

400

The three main genres of Shakespeare's plays.

What are comedies, tragedies, and histories?

400

An author's brief, indirect reference to a person, place, event, or thing that is outside the text.

What is an allusion?

400

The job that Nick holds in the city.

What is a bond salesman?

400

The article of clothing that Holden Caulfield picks up in New York City.

What is a red hunting hat?

400

The kind of conjunction that connects a dependent clause with an independent clause.

What is a subordinating conjunction?

500

A prophecy says that Macbeth will only be vanquished when this comes against him in his castle.

What is Birnam Wood?

500

The device in poetry in which the words of one line "run on" and carry over into the next line to complete its meaning.

What is enjambment?

500

The cardinal virtue that Nick believes he possesses.

What is honesty?

500

Janie's three husbands in Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Who are Logan, Joe ("Jody"), and Tea Cake?

500

The punctuation mark that connects two related complete sentences.

What is a semicolon?