Short Stories
This short story was about a woman who murdered her husband with a leg of lamb
"Lamb to the Slaughter"
This happened to Romeo and Juliet at the end of the play
They die :(
A rhetorical device that uses logic to persuade an audience
Logos
Satire is used to ____________ society
Criticize
What is the action verb?
Alice led the way
led
This short story is about a smart house that burns to the ground
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
“you shine above me like a winged messenger from heaven” is an example of a...
Simile
What rhetorical device is this an example of?
Imagine an elephant pacing endlessly in a small enclosure, its eyes dull and its movements repetitive—clear signs of stress and unhappiness.
Pathos
This is what Jonathon Swift proposed people start eating
Babies
Is this irony or not?
Your best friend says "you are a great friend" to you
Not ironic
A myth about the god of love and the mortal he falls in love with
Cupid and Psyche
This specific type of irony occurs when the audience knows that Romeo is at the party as a Montague under his mask, but other characters do not
Dramatic Irony
When the speaker uses "we" or "us" in their speech it is...
Direct Address
This is who Johnathon Swift is criticizing when he wrote "A Modest Proposal"
The rich politicians of Ireland
What text feature uses space at the bottom of the page to clarify information?
Footnotes
In the lines, “in the living room, the voice-clock sang…as if it were afraid that nobody would,” what type of figurative language is Bradbury using?
Personification
When Juliet says this, she uses...
"That's the way doves carry Venus so fast, and that's why Cupid has wings that let him fly as fast as the wind."
An allusion
What famous activist is using ethos in the quote below?
"I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference"
Martin Luther King Jr.
The title "A Modest Proposal" is an example of ________ irony
Verbal
The name of Romeo's servant
Balthasar
What type of irony is used in the quote below
"At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head."
Situational irony
What year was Romeo and Juliet written?
If you get the century right, you get half points.
1597
Who wrote The Prince, which persuades new princes to use violence to take over new territories?
Niccolo Machiavelli
The persona that Johnathon Swift embodies in "A Modest Proposal" is
A rich politician who is making a crazy new proposal
The major political movement occurring when Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is
The Civil Rights Movement