Lang & Lit IOC Review Part I

Which artist was the most played on Ms. Pederson's Spotify in 2019?

Stylistic Feature? “Still, it must be hell, to be a man, like that. It must be just fine. It must be hell."

Which common Lost Generation topic is included in “Cat in the Rain”?

What is the CORRECT title of Atwood's novel?

Which of these events was not occurring when The Handmaid's Tale was published?

What percentage of Americans have blue eyes?

Text? “Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house..."

Stylistic Feature? “I’m sitting...in the client position, as if I’m a bank customer negotiating a hefty loan.”

Which poem conveys this theme? You have to hear all sides of the story to fully know the truth.

In which country did the Lost Generation produce their work?

Text? “I rub some of the lipstick along my cheekbones, blending it in."

Stylistic Feature? “But calm and unruffled as if removing an obstacle”

Which text is this from? “Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

What is the fate of the snake in "The Accomplice"?

When was "Big, Two-Hearted River" published?

Text? “But the car headlamps coming toward us make it seem we’re in some thirdworld movie”

Where and when was Grace Nichols born?

What is the purpose of the burnt grasshoppers in "Big, Two-Hearted River"?

What is a resemblance in the sounds of words or syllables between their vowels?

Stylistic Feature? A narrative mode that depicts the thoughts passing through a character's mind.

Text? “...Malinche, Now that the fog of these centuries has started to life a little...”

What is the meaning/connotation of Malinche/Malinchista?

Text? "It’s not really an operation at all.”

What type of narration does The Handmaid's Tale utilize?

A comparison made with an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

What was the name of the right-wing women’s leader spearheading the fight against the ERA?

Which text has the following theme: Language is a tool of power.

What is the name of the blue guy on Spongebob who always gets angry?

Text? “Already Snake rears, ready to strike, I fear for the grace of Swan’s life.”

How tall was Hemingway?

What is the practice or art of using an object or a word to represent an abstract idea?

Fill in the blank of the Washburn School Song: Cheer for the orange and blue ____ forever.

Text? “The train went on up the track out of sight, around one of the hills of burnt timber."

Text? “The American and the girl with him sat at a table in the shade, outside the building."

What stylistic feature is used here? "Their room was on the second floor facing the sea.”

Which author was involved in multiple wars?

Stylistic Feature? “...leaving in the sun this bare space they had once covered with shadow”

Stylistic Feature? “...the one who with the gift of tongues bore Cortez an empire as well as a son.”

What writing technique did Hemingway coin and use frequently in his writing?

Do bananas have radiation?

The theme of facing death making a person succumb to telling the truth is shown in what text?

Title? “Malinchista - they say meaning a sell-out Malinchista - a word that shadows your name”

What’s the smallest country in the world?

Which text? “Christ I had misplaced twenty years of my life!"