Romeo & Juliet
Lord of the Flies
Literary Devices
Conventions
Wild Card
100

Where did Romeo & Juliet meet?

A party

100

the leader of the hunters

Jack

100

An example would be "Juliet is the sun"

Metaphor

100

MLA Font and Size

Times New Roman 12

100

Name one 1st Semester book or short story

Possible answers: On the Sidewalk Bleeding, The Cask of Amontillado, Of Mice & Men, The Odyssey, American Born Chinese

200

Juliet is expected to obey her parents, but she secretly marries Romeo, showing she must choose between ____ and _____.

Family and love

200

Who said it? "Give me my specs!"

Piggy

200

An example is “These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder"

Simile

200

Identify the misspelled word:

The student definately finished the assignment on time

definitely

200

What is our room number?

216

300

The problem between the Montagues and Capulets

Family fued

300

What do the boys use to hold their meetings?

The conch

300

Examples from Lord of the Flies include the conch and Piggy's glasses

Symbols

300

Daily Double: Format this sentence correctly for MLA Format.

In MLA format, this type of in-text citation includes "the author’s last name and page number" (Smith 42)

In MLA format, this type of in-text citation includes "the author’s last name and page number" (Smith 42).

300

Mrs. Guelker's favorite sport

Pickleball

400

What punishment does Romeo get after killing Tybalt?

Banishment

400

A pair of twins closely allied with Ralph.

Sam and Eric

400

Example: “O brawling love. O loving hate.”

Oxymoron (combining two contradictory or opposing words)

400

This punctuation mark correctly joins two closely related independent clauses, like in this sentence:
“I finished my homework; I went to bed.”

Semicolon

400

Name one college Mr. Johnson attended

University of Evansville or Washington University in St. Louis

500

The setting of the play

Verona

500

Who said it? "Maybe there is a beast… Maybe it’s only us."

Simon

500

Daily Double: Identify two literary devices in this passage with the matching lines.

"The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beard of flame twenty feet in the air. For yards round the fire the heat was like a blow, and the breeze was a river of sparks. Trunks crumbled to white dust."

Multiple Possible: Imagery, Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Alliteration, Symbolism

500

Where should a Works Cited page be?

at the end, on its own separate page

500

PRICE IS RIGHT: How many units did we complete this school year?

8 (Short Stories, Of Mice & Men, The Odyssey, American Born Chinese, Narrative, Romeo & Juliet, Lord of the Flies, iSearch)