Paper
What is the standard number of paragraphs in the assignment and how many pages were required?
2/ Five
Who is Macbeth initially loyal to at the start of the play, and which three characters prophesy his rise?
The King/ The Witches
In Sonnet 18, what is the poem’s speaker comparing his beloved to, and what final claim does the speaker make about the poem’s power?
The speaker compares the beloved to a summer’s day.
Final claim: the poem will give the beloved eternal life—their beauty will live forever in the lines of the poem.
Define livid as used in literary contexts.
extremely angry
This character finds the conch and first uses it to call meetings?
Ralph
What needs to be included at the end of your introductory paragraph?
Thesis
These are the people Lady Macbeth plans to blame Duncan's death on.
The King's guards/Chamberlains.
In “A Dream Within a Dream,” this image emphasizes the speaker’s sense of loss and slipping away?
What is the golden grains of sand slipping through the speakers fingers.
Define rift
To break open; to split.
What does the conch come to symbolize as the boys’ society changes?
Law and order; The "adult" life
Name two reliable source types students should cite in an informative essay.
Scholarly article/ Book/ News Outlets
Macbeth sees this floating before him right before he's supposed to kill the king. Why?
A bloody dagger. It shows Macbeth's declining mental state due to the stress of his decision to kill the king.
This author wrote "After Apple Picking"
Who is Robert Frost.
What does lexicon mean?
A dictionary; the vocabulary of a particular trade, group of people, or the like.
This character speaks to "The Lord of the Flies" and it states that beast is actually what? (Something this character suggested earlier, but no one listened).
Who is Simon and the beast is only the children on the island. (Only us)
Describe the correct MLA in-text citation format for a direct quote from an article with one author
Wade, Nicholas. "Meet Luca, the Ancestor of All Living Things." The New York Times, New York Times, 26 Jul. 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/science/last-universal-ancestor.html
(Wade). Author's last name.
This wood will move to Dunsinane hill according to the witches prophecies.
Birnam
In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” explain the significance of the final stanza’s repetition and the phrase “and miles to go before I sleep.”
It emphasizes the length this speaker must go before he can rest. He has a long journey.
Define rendezvous
A designated meeting place. A place where people habitually meet. A pre-arranged meeting.
The opposite of the conch which represents law and order is this, which represents savagery.
The Lord of the Flies/ The beast/ the pig head.
Name two pieces of information you need in order to make a correct citation.
Author, title of Work, Title of Website, Publisher, URL, Publish date, Access Date.
Compare how the play and the staged performance you watched treated the theme of fate versus free will. How did fate affect the free-will choices of Macbeth?. Think about what Banquo and Macbeth do differently with their prophecies that the witches gave them.
The witches’ prophecy suggests fate, but Macbeth’s own choices like actively deciding to murder Duncan show exercise of free will. Macbeth could reject the prophecy but chooses to pursue it.
The literary device of a metaphor is used to represent the choices we make in our lives and how sometimes they lead us to places where we can't go back and change them in this poem.
What is the Road Not Taken?
Define crony, synthesis, and effervescent
Crony: a close friend or companion, often with a negative implication of favoritism.
Synthesis: the combination of ideas or elements into a coherent whole.
Effervescent: lively, bubbly, or vivacious in personality or manner.
What do Ralph and Jack represent in terms of humanity? Think about their roles in the novel.
Ralph represents democratic order, cooperation, and the impulse toward civilization; Jack represents authoritarian rule, primitive instinct, and the impulse toward savagery.