Storytelling
Oppositions
Imagery
Villains
Make an argument!
100

A reason for The Odyssey's repetitiveness. 

From an oral storytelling tradition/helps to remember it to recite out loud/etc.

100

Paraphrase any line that portrays Othello and Desdemona as opposites.

Probably the black ram/white ewe or Barbary horse lines?

100

This object symbolizes Sir Gawain's failure of honesty. 

Lady Bertilak's green girdle

100

Which animal represents Germans in Maus and why?

Cats - any decent reason why, e.g. main predators of mice (Jewish people) during Holocaust

100

Victor Frankenstein is the real monster.

Anything convincing :)

200

Reason the Duke of Ferrara shows people the portrait of his last duchess.

To intimidate them, basically/tell the story of her wrongs and his revenge.

200

What makes the colours gold and green opposites in Sir Gawain?

Civilization/Christianity vs. Nature/Devil/Paganism

200

Object associated with the Devil's power in "Young Goodman Brown."

(Snake) staff

200

What the Duke of Ferrara displays in his gallery.

Portrait of his dead wife/other art.

200

The Duke of Ferrara murdered his last Duchess.

Anything that includes textual evidence :)

300

In Frankenstein, a factor that makes a jury likelier to believe your story.

Calmness/seeming sane/gender/class/educated background, etc, just NOT truth.

300

What makes the Cyclopes and the Phaiakians opposites?

Uncivilized, inhospitable, rural, vs. civilized, hospitable, wealthy

300

Iago compares his toxic words to this substance's entry into the body.

Poison dripped in Othello's ear.

300

Biblical figure both Frankenstein and his monster compare themselves to.

Satan (or the Devil, Lucifer, the fallen angel, etc)

300

Circe did nothing wrong, actually.

Anything grounded in the text.

400

According to Maus, the irony of the Beckett quote, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."

...he SAID it.

400

The Arctic, the forest, the mountains, and South America all have this in common. 

"Uncivilized" places of wild nature where Frankenstein's creature lives or offers to live.

400

Reason Francoise (Art's wife) is drawn as a mouse.

She requested it/she converted to Judaism.

400

What causes Young Goodman Brown's ultimate loss of faith?

Thinking his wife (Faith) might have joined the devil-worshippers in the woods.

400

Young Goodman Brown ends up on the side of the Devil.

Anything convincing :)

500

Vladek's reason for not wanting Art to include the story about his ex-girlfriend Lucia in Maus.

It's private/improper/has nothing to do with the Holocaust.

500

Why it is an identity crisis for Sir Gawain to laze around in bed while Lord Bertilak goes hunting.

Something about masculine and feminine roles (pursuer and pursued) or gendered space (inside/outside)

500

Something that made the Duchess of Ferrara smile.

Any of: compliments, sunsets, cherries, gifts, mule, the Duke passing her, anyone passing her, simple joys, too many things.

500

What is Iago's true motivation?

We don't know

500

Iago is in love with Othello.

Anything with any reference to the text at all, pretty much :)