Question Bee
What causes May to leave the house for the Wailing Wall on the night of her death?
Zach's mother calls and reveals that Zach is in jail, which May didn't know.
Who is with Macbeth when he encounters the witches for the first time?
Banquo
Wall-E is all alone on planet Earth except for his pet, which is what type of animal?
A cockroach
Which flower appears "fluttering and dancing in the breeze" in Wordsworth's poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud?
Daffodils
If sound is described as non-diegetic, who can hear it?
The audience, but not the characters in the world of the film (the diegesis)
Who plays the role of Rosaleen in The Secret Life of Bees film?
Jennifer Hudson
What noble title does Macbeth have at the start of the play?
Thane of Glamis
The opening song from Wall-E comes from the soundtrack belonging to which iconic musical?
Hello, Dolly!
What was the name of the abbey in Wordworth's poem - the first we studied in the Romantic unit of Term 1?
Tintern Abbey
Complete this famous line from Macbeth:
"Look like the innocent __________, but be the _____________ under it."
flower, serpent
What special possession of her mother's is Lily gifted at the Boatwright house and wears when T. Ray arrives?
A whale brooch
What are three reasons that Macbeth gives for choosing not to kill Duncan?
He is Duncan's kin (family), his host, and his subject. Duncan is a good king and a good man who is well-liked by his subjects. And he has no reason to commit the act aside from his own "vaulting ambition."
What is the name of the satirical technique that involves presenting the opposite of the natural order? (e.g. parents behaving like children; animals behaving like humans, etc)
Reversal
In the poem Ozymandias, who tells the narrator all about the "colossal Wreck" of the pharoah sculture?
A traveller (from an antique land)
Lady Macbeth calls on the spirits to: "Take my milk for gall." What is gall?
Bile/bitter poison
What is the name of the lawyer who gifts Zach a legal book, and assists Rosaleen to fight her charges at the novel's conclusion.
Clayton Forrest
In what way doesn't Lady Macduff conform to Elizabethan gender ideals for women?
She doesn't conform because she speaks out against her husband and criticises his decision to leave her and their children at home.
In what year as Wall-E produced and released?
2008
In The Birth-day, readers are told that "Pale Misery mingles with the throng." Identify the poetic technique that Robinson has employed.
Personification
In class, we accused the witches of being equivocal. What does it mean to equivocate?
To be deliberately unclear or ambiguous.
What does Rosaleen steal from the church on the day she attempts to register to vote in Sylvan?
A paper fan
The witches prophesise that no person of "woman born" will be able to defeat Macbeth. How does this lull him into a false sense of security? How is he defeated?
Macduff, who ultimately kills Macbeth, is born by Caesarian rather than a natural birth.
In Wall-E, characters' ground-paths are colour-coded aboard the Axiom. The robots' path is white, stewards get a red path, while the human ground-path is which colour?
Light blue
In The Birth-day, Robinson states: "Take physic, Pomp!" let Reason say: / "What can avail thy trappings rare?"
"Physic" is archaic language meaning what?
Medication
Which word beginning with 'H' describes Ozymandias' arrogance?
hubris