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Name that Character Poetry Puzzlers Prose Problems Drama Queens 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500

Row 1, Col 1 What is allusion? In “To Helen,” Edgar Allan Poe praises Sarah Helen Whitman, comparing her beauty to that of Helen of Troy, utilizing this device.

1,2 What is apostrophe? “The Sun Rising” by John Donne Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us?

1,3 What is assonance? And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the sideOf my darling, my darling, my life and my bride. The repetition of the long “i” sound creates this.

1,4 What is free verse? Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set meter.

1,5 What is onomatopoeia? “ I heard a fly buzz when I died.”

2,1 What is an oxymoron or paradox? "I like a smuggler. He is the only honest thief.” (Charles Lamb)

2,2 What is anaphora? “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”

2,3 What is metonymy? “We have always remained loyal to the crown.”

2,4 What is synecdoche? • Julius Caesar: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."

2,5 What is epistrophe? "Then I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be ever'where— wherever you look. Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. . . . . An' when our folk eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build— why, I'll be there.”

3,1 What is soliloquy? • Shakespeare utilizes this kind of speech to help develop dramatic irony as the reader has access to Iago’s evil plotting schemes when he is talking to himself.

3,2 What is external conflict and antagonist? Blanche’s battle with Stanley created this, making Stanley this kind of character.

3,3 What is climax? Identify where you would locate this event in terms of plot structure: When Othello is convinced that Desdemona has cheated on him with the evidence of the missing handkerchief and confronts her about its loss.

3,4 What is a first-person, unreliable narrator? Holden Caulfield is this kind of narrator because of his tendency to lie.

3, 5 What is Gothic? Both Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein are written in this tradition, featuring gloomy scenery, crumbling castles, and supernatural elements, like ghosts and monsters.

4,1 Who is Fa Mu Lan? The warrior woman who fought in the place of her father in the novel by the same name.

4,2 Who is Elizabeth Lavenza? The name of Victor’s wife.

4,3 Who is Horatio? Hamlet’s best friend

4,4 Who is Macduff? Macbeth’s murderer

4,5 Who is Jane Stradlater? Holden Caulfield gets uptight when Stradlater takes this girl, with whom he has fond memories of playing checkers, out on a date.

3,5 Who is Emilia? Iago’s wife and Desdemona’s maid

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