Lang & Lit IOC Review Part I

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

Do bananas have radiation?

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

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

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

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

Which author was involved in multiple wars?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where and when was Grace Nichols born?

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

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

In which country did the Lost Generation produce their work?

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

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

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

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

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

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

How tall was Hemingway?

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

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

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

What is the meaning/connotation of Malinche/Malinchista?

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

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

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

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

What percentage of Americans have blue eyes?

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

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

What’s the smallest country in the world?

What is the CORRECT title of Atwood's novel?

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

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