HSC Advanced English Revision

Who is the best dressed teacher at De La Salle College?

Focus statement of an essay; premise statement upon which the discussion in the essay is based

Character or force in a literary work that opposes the main character, or protagonist

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Who is Jay Gatsby's questionable business associate in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby ?

What division were Jay and Nick in during World War I?

In Act III, the honest Elizabeth lies to protect her husband's name. What technique is this?

What does Mary Warren give to Elizabeth Proctor when she returns home from the trials?

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?

In A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bryson ends the book with the line "One Planet, ..."

Recurrent device, formula, or situation.

Which of these characters is not hung for witchcraft?

An overstatement characterized by exaggerated language

The attitude a literary work takes towards its subject and theme.

Sensory details in a work; involves any or all of the five senses.

What is Jay Gatsby's real name?

The Great Gatsby opens with an Epigraph. To whom is the Epigraph attributed?

A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements: "deafening silence."

What does Nick do to earn money?

Which kind of Discovery is not explicitly explored in the Area of Study rubric?

Who did Gatsby ask to play piano when he brought Daisy in his house for the first time?

Who is killed by being pressed?

What is implied by a word.

How many Acts does The Crucible have?

Who says: "Woman, your justice would freeze beer!"

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.

A person or thing that makes another seem better by contrast

Let come what comes, only I'll be revenged most thoroughly for my father.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.