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something is itself and represents something else

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symbol

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Who is the author of “Nothing Gold Can Stay”

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Robert Frost

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What is the rhyme scheme for “Nothing Gold Can Stay”?

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AA BB CC DD

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In the poem, every two consecutive lines there is a repeating rhyme scheme. What do we call two consecutive lines that rhyme?

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A Couplet

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What is the meaning of the title of “Nothing Gold Can Stay”?

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one’s innocence is impermanent and will be lost as he/she gains experience/wisdom

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In this poem, how many couplets are there?

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4

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In line 3, the voice in the poem states, “Her hardest hue to hold”, which two literary devices are found in this line?

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alliteration and personification

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In line 6, the voice states, “So Eden sank to grief”. Which literary devices are being utilized by the voice?

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allusion and personification

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“Nothing Gold Can Stay” is a fixed form poem.

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True

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What is the setting of “The Lottery”?

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June 27th in a small village at 10am

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What does the number 3 symbolize in “The Lottery” as well as other literature?

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the Holy Trinity (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost)

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Who is the official of the Lottery?

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Mr. Summers

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The name “Delacroix” symbolically means____________.

a. Of the earth
b. Of the soil
c. Of the cross

A

C

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In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, the rocks symbolize ____________.

a. the foundation of the village
b. burial, punishment, and martyrdom
c. an allusion to the Bible about the Gospel of St. John
d. both b and c
e. none of the above

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b. burial, punishment, and martyrdom
c. an allusion to the Bible about the Gospel of St. John

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What does Mr. Graves symbolize?

a. entombment or burial
b. a serious or somber situation
c. both a and b
d. none of the above

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C. A and B

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What was the Greek Festival of Thargelia?

a. a ceremony where people were honored as heroes
b. an annual ceremony where a male and female were sacrificed for the prosperity of the community
c. a ceremony where people celebrated the gods of revelry
d. none of the above

A

b

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The transferring of one’s sins to persons or animals and then sacrificing them, people believed that their sins would be eliminated, a process that has been termed the______________.

a. the scapegoat archetype
b. the recipient of just desserts
c. the Thargelia manifesto
d. none of the above

A

a

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The boys collecting of the rocks, the villagers’ reluctance to help Mr. Summers with the black box, and the villagers’ behavior during the lottery’s selection of the slips of paper, all exemplify which literary device?
a. anaphora
b. simile
c. foreshadowing
d. withholding of information
e. both c and d

A

e

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Which character “wins” the Lottery?

a. Old Man Warner
b. Rousseau
c. Tessie Hutchinson
d. Mr. Graves

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c

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Which is not true about the Lottery?

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Who do married daughters in the Lottery draw with?

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Their husband’s family

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What is the theme of “The Lottery”?

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It is dangerous to BLINDLY follow tradition

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Should a chapter in a novel be italicized, underlined, or in quotation marks?

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Quotation marks

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Should a short story be italicized, underlined, or in quotation marks?

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Quotation marks

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How should the title of a longer work of literature be punctuated?
Italics/underlined
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Title of an essay: quotes, italicized, underlined?
quotes
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How should the title of a play be punctuated?
Italics/underlined
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Correct or incorrect punctuation: "The Lord of the Flies"
Incorrect!
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Correct or incorrect punctuation: The Lottery (italicized)
Incorrect!
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Correct or incorrect punctuation: "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Correct!
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Correct or incorrect punctuation: Michelangelo's sculpture "David"
Incorrect! (Major piece of art)
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Correct or incorrect punctuation: Homer's epic poem The Iliad (italicized)
Correct!
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Correct or incorrect punctuation: Newspaper opinion editorial article "Why You Should Give Your Teenager a Crock Pot"
Correct!
34
Quotes or italicized/underlined: Tangled (movie)
italicized/underlined
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Correct or incorrect punctuation: The Psych (italicized) episode "Weekend Warriors"
Correct!
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Correct or incorrect punctuation: "Avatar: The Last Airbender"
Incorrect!
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Quotes or italicized/underlined: Phineas and Ferb
italicized/underlined
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Quotes or italicized/underlined: The episode called Rollercoaster
Quotes
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Quotes or italicized/underlined: C. S. Lewis's essay The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment
quotes
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Quotes or italicized/underlined: Owl City's album Cinematic
italicized
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What are the 6 types of conflict?
man vs man man vs self man vs society man vs nature man vs unknown/supernatural man vs technology/machine
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What are the points of the Freytag Plot Pyramid?
Exposition Inciting Moment/Incident Rising Action Climax Falling Action Resolution Denouement
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What is the denotative meaning of a word?
Its literal dictionary definition
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What is the connotative meaning of a word?
Its figurative or poetic meaning.
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What point of view is "In Praise of Bats" told from?
First-person
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What is objective information?
Factual information
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Is subjective information factual?
Nope!
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“A few strays looped and fed near us, passing like shuttles through the weave of the trees.” The line in bold and italicized is an example of which literary device? a. metaphor b. simile c. alliteration
Simile
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61. “In a medieval simile of the Venerable Bede’s, life is depicted as a beautiful and strange winged creature that appears at a window, flies swiftly through the half-lit banquet hall, and is gone.” The lines in bold and italicized is an example of which two literary devices? a. metaphor and allusion b. simile and anaphora c. simile and allusion d. metaphor and diction e. none of the above
c
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“…the sunset doing a shadow dance over the water…” The line in bold and italicized is an example of which literary device(s)? a. personification b. zoomorphism c. imagery d. both a and c e. none of the above
d
51
According to Rousseau, men in a state of nature do not know good and evil. a. True b. False
TRUE SAUCE!
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(True or False) According to Rousseau, the first rules of justice develop only with the existence of private property. a. True b. False
True and blue!
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According to Rousseau, once an individual has left the state of natural existence, becoming part of a society that promotes justice and order, he /she cannot return to that state of nature. a. True b. False
True, man.
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What is the tripartite? a. the three parts of human character: the idea, the reality, and the superior reality b. the three parts of the human soul: the interior soul, the exterior soul, the logical soul c. the three parts of the human psyche: the Id, ego, and superego d. none of the above
C
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Who was the psychologist who theorized the tripartite? a. Rousseau b. Dr. Koenninger c. Sigmund Freud d. Saul McLeod e. none of the above
C (not giving credit to Plato)
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Who was the Enlightenment political philosopher who analyzed the “Noble Savage Myth”? a. Sigmund Freud b. Rousseau c. Saul McLeod d. Henry Kissinger e. none of the above
B
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In the grocery store, Tommy really wants a candy bar, but decides to wait until he can pay for it because he does not want to be punished. This is an example of which part of the psyche? a. id b. ego c. superego d. none of the above
b
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Tommy really wants a candy bar and thinks about stealing it; he feels so guilty he confesses to his mom. This is an example of which part of the psyche? a. id b. ego c. superego d. none of the above
c
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(True or False) According to Freud, the superego consists of two parts: the conscience and ideal self
T
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During which war did William Golding serve? a. War of 1812 b. World War I c. World War II d. the Korean War e. none of the above
c
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(True or False) After serving during the war, William Golding believed that he had seen enough to realize that every human was capable of being a Nazi
T
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(True or False) William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies is an example of an allegory.
T
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(True or False) William Golding did not believe that even good people could be corrupted.
F
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In Lord of the Flies, what happens to the plane to make it crash? a. Ran out of fuel b. shot out of the sky by an enemy force or possibly the force of an atomic bomb’s explosion c. Mechanical issues d. a hurricane
b
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What ailment does Piggy have that prevents him from doing certain activities? a. blindness b. anxiety c. depression d. asthma
d
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Who is the first character to see the Beast? a. Simon b. Piggy c. Jack d. one of the littluns
d
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What do the littluns build on the beach? a. sand castles b. a fort c. huts d. a shrine to the Beast
a
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Which boy is said to have dark shadows that creep under his swarthy (darkened by the sun) skin? a. Jack b. Roger c. Ralph d. Henry
b
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(True or False) In the beginning of Lord of the Flies, Jack is selected as the leader of the boys
F
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(True or False) In the beginning of Lord of the Flies, Ralph is the leader of the choir boys
F (TRICKY)
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(True or False) A powerful lightning storm causes the “scar” on the island.
F
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Who attempts to guide Ralph’s decisions about how to effectively organize the boys on the island?
Piggy
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Compare Ralph’s plan to build huts and a signal fire with Jack’s plan to go hunting. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each plan?
Discuss.
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Think about how the conch is used in Lord of the Flies. What does it represent?
Discuss.
75
general statement about life?
Theme
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a non-human given figurative human characteristics?
personification
77
a hint of future events in a story
foreshadowing
78
category of literature
genre
79
problem in a story
conflict
80
events caused by solution
falling action
81
reactions to climax
resolution
82
character who/that attempts to stop someone or something
antagonist
83
strategies an author uses to give character personality
characterization
84
any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story.
motif
85
character who attempts to achieve or change something
protagonist
86
beginning of story, tells character, setting, mood
exposition
87
series of events that tell a story
plot
88
attempts to solve problem
rising action

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