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How many lines are in a Sonnet?

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14

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What is the term used for the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent words?

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Alliteration

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What is the term for a comparison using like or as?

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Simile

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What is the main theme in John Steinbeck‘s of mice and men?

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Friendship

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What is the setting of mice and men?

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Soledad California

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What do you call a poem that tells a story?

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Narrative

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What is the recurring idea or image in a text called?

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Motif

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What type of irony involves a discrepancy between what a character says and what the audience knows to be true?

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Dramatic irony

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What do we call a speech given by a character alone on stage?

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Soliloquy

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What is the term for the overall atmosphere or feeling in a literary work?

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Mood

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9
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Who wrote of mice and men?

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John Steinbeck

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What is the term for exaggerating statements? Not meant to be taken literally?

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Hyperbole

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What do we call the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities?

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Symbolism

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12
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What form of poetry does not have a regular rhyme or rhyme scheme?

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Free verse

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What is the term for an indirect or passing reference to another text or historical event?

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Allusion

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14
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What is a technique used to give human qualities to animals or object?

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Personification

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15
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Who wrote Sonnet 116?

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William Shakespeare

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16
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What does Sonnet 116 say true love is not affected by?

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Time

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17
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In ‘if-‘, what does the speaker encourage keeping when others are losing theirs?

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Head

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18
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What feeling does the poem piano evoke?

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Nostalgia

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19
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In ‘half past two’, what is the child unable to understand?

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Time

20
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Who is George’s companion of mice and men?

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Lenny

21
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What type of figurative language uses like or as to compare to things?

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Simile

22
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What time describes a struggle between opposing forces in a story?

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Conflict

23
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In Of Mice and Men, what is the name of the old swamper with a missing hand?

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candy

24
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What is the term for descriptive language that appeals to the senses?

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imagery

25
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What is the narrative perspective of Of Mice and Men?

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Third-person

26
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What literary device is used to hint at future events in a story?

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Foreshadowing

27
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What term describes the way an author develops a character?

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Characterisation

28
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What is the name of the ranch boss’s son in Of Mice and Men?

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Curley

29
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What is the term for an implied comparison without using ‘like’ or ‘as”?

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Metaphor

30
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Who is the only black character in Of Mice and Men?

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Crooks

31
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What is the repetition of vowel sounds in poetry called?

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Assonance

32
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What is the term for giving inanimate objects human characteristics?

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Personification

33
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What is the term for a series of words that start with the same consonant sound?

A

Alliteration

33
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What is the attitude of the writer towards the subject called?

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Tone

34
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What is a three-line stanza in poetry called?

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Tercet

34
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What do we call a pause in the middle of a line of poetry?

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Caesura

35
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What do you call a break in a poem’s formal structure or meter?

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Enjambment

36
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What is the regular pattern of rhyme at the end of lines in a poem called?

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Rhyme scheme

37
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What is the beat or pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem?

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Rhythm

38
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What is the name of the town George and Lennie flee from at the beginning of the novel?

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Weed

39
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What is the term for the use of opposite ideas close together for effect?

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Juxtaposition

40
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What does Lennie carry in his pocket at the beginning of the novel?

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Mouse

41
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What is the term for a repeated word or phrase in a poem?

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Refrain

42
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What is Slim’s role on the ranch in Of Mice and Men?

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Jerkline Skinner

43
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Who offers to contribute money to buy the farm with George and Lennie?

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Candy

44
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What is the term for repetition of consonant sounds in close proximity?

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Consonance

45
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What dream does Curley’s wife reveal to Lennie?

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Actress

46
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What type of poem mourns the loss of someone or something?

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Elegy

47
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What does the ranch symbolise in the novel?

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Isolation

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