English Quiz

Cave paintings, props to represent something, Biblical people

“All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players”

“Who planted the bomb?,” secret identity, flashbacks, cliffhanger endings, worried characters

Opposites; Jane Austen says men look for wives but in P&P it’s the other way around

Harry’s nemesis, Professor Snape, turns out to be his protector

“Angry pleasure,” “melancholy merriment,” “terrific liar,” “act naturally,” “bittersweet”

“Bah humbug” is a reference that helps develop characters and create associations to well known works

Goal to drive social change; exaggerations of consumption to criticize capitalism

Slaughterhouse Five “So it goes”; a repeated element that has symbolic significance

Texting in a Jane Austen novel; error in chronology

Poetic “slices of life”; “As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea”

“Because I could not stop for Death/ He kindly stopped for me”

Animal Farm is an example of expressing large, complex ideas; political or moral

Subcategory of metaphor; uses “like” and “as”

What if America lost World War II?

Harry’s curiosity about Quirrell’s turban in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s stone

One Thousand and One Nights the bride kept telling stories to save herself from execution; meant to engage reader

Figurative language to evoke the senses; tastes, sights, smells, sounds

Brings people together and has the power to transform how we think

In Romeo and Juliet we know they are alive but they don’t

“I must be cruel to be kind”; questions logic

Comparing Juliet to the sun and extends to saying “kill the envious moon”