High School: Literature Flashcards
This award-winning novel by Jason Reynolds tells the story of 15 year-old Will who has just seen his brother murdered. Will is visited by ghosts on an elevator ride who tell stories that help Will decide whether to exact revenge
Long Way Down
In which Samuel Becket play do two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, engage in a series of discussions and encounters while waiting for the title character that never shows up?
Waiting for Godot (guh-DOUGH)
In English, what is the superlative form of the words many, much and some?
Most
This award-winning novel by Karen Hesse is a poem that reads like a novel. Name this work that tells the story of Billie Joe who struggles to help her family survive the Dust Bowl years of the Depression
Out of the Dust
This adjective means belonging to a time period other than the one being portrayed
anachronistic
(ann-ACK-ron-ISS-tick)
Identify the book that transitioned to screen in 2022: Kya is accused of murdering Chase in North Carolina
Where the Crawdads Sing
Identify the book that transitioned to screen in 2022: Belly falls for two boys at the beach
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Identify the book that transitioned to screen in 2022: Hercule Poirot solves a murder in Egypt
Death on the Nile
What literary device hints at future events
Foreshadowing
What literary device sets the overall mood and message of the book
Tone
What literary device provides background information to give context
Exposition
What literary device has two contradictory words to describe one thing
Oxymoron
What literary device compares two similar things by saying one is the other
Metaphor
What literary device places two or more dissimilar things side by side
Juxtaposition
What literary device contrasts between how things seem and how they really are
Irony
What literary device appeals to the senses through descriptive language
Imagery
What literary device is a polite way to describe something innapropriate
Euphemism
What literary device term for recurring symbol, model or pattern of character type
Archetype
What literary device is a term for casual and informal language in writing
Colloquialism
(kuh·low·kwee·uh·li·zm
Which Welsh poet and writer is most famous for his poems “And Death shall have no dominion” and “Do not go gentle into that good night”?
Dylan Thomas
When this Young Adult author won the Newberry Award for his 1986 novel, Dogsong, he didn’t know what that meant. Name this author who taught generations of kids to survive in the woods with only a hatchet
Gary Paulsen
In the sentence, “My car broke down and it’s raining; the world hates me!” The phrase “the world hates me” is using p art of something to represent the whole. What is the name for this device?
Synecdodche (Sa-nect-do-Key)
