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Emo Short Stories and Mythlogy for
the Common Freshman
© 2006 by Mr. Mayers
Pretty Powerful Poetry
The Curious Incident of
Mice and Men
Literary Terms…Wait,
what?
IDK Vocabulary
Grammar fo yo Grandma
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Statue imagery
Faulkner uses _______ to describe Miss Emily as a “fallen monument” or “idol”.
Crystal Stair
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Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son” uses the image of what in order to contrast the realities of life?
Sherlock Holmes
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Christopher’s major influence in solving mysteries can be attributed to what literary character?
personification
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What is the process of providing human qualities to inanimate objects?
vex
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IDK what it means to annoy or irritate
adjective
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What is the part of speech? I took the longest flight out of Texas.
Hybris, or Excessive Pride
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Though Heracles suffered from excessive emotions, he did not suffer from what?
Returned love
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According to the speaker in “Luxury”, what does the speaker reveal as the ultimate luxury?
He cannot tell lies.
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Christopher’s inability to understand jokes is difficult
because of what reason?
hyperbole
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“Seeing the whole world with the push of a button.”
apocryphal
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IDK what it means when something is false but seemingly true.
adverb
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What is the part of speech? They actively participated in the discussion of literature.
Cleaning of the Augean Stables
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Which of Heracles’ labors was the most degrading and did not officially count because he received payment for it?
Confident, stern, straightforward, motivation, persevering
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Name one tone that Hughes uses to illustrate the attitude of the speaker in “Mother to Son”?
Not give her a name
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In order to demonstrate the brotherhood of men and the threat of women towards that brotherhood, Steinbeck chooses to do what for Curley’s wife?
Tone
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Passionate, arrogant, insulting, personal, proud, and foreboding are all examples of what?
mollify
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IDK what it means to pacify or make less severe.
Predicate nominative
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The person who won was Elyssa. Elyssa is acting as the predicate nominative or predicate adjective of the sentence?
3rd Person Omniscient
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The “Lottery” is told through what point of view? (Be specific)
Rites of Passage
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In Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Making a Fist”, the speaker undergoes their own _______ in the line, “the borders we must cross separately.”
They allow him to be alone
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What does being an astronaut and Christopher’s post-apocalyptic dream have in common?
Foreshadow
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Christopher’s father telling Christopher not to continue with his investigations is example of what?
unfathomable
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IDK why Sarah would do something so terrible to someone; I cannot even conceive it.
Predicate adjective
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Finally, the scent of our dishwasher was lemony. lemony is acting as the predicate nominative or predicate adjective of the sentence?
Humans are prone to sin and evil
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What would be a central theme to the “The Black Cat” based on the actions of the protagonist of the story?
punctuation
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The poem is very unique in subject matter, what is strange about the words and lines of Emily Dickenson’s “I Died for Beauty”?
They are all round-static characters.
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What do Lennie, Curley, and Curley’s wife all have in common?
Allegory
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A story told in which the plot, characters, and setting all have a second level of meaning is called what?
coquettish
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IDK who keeps sending me these notes, but this playful behavior is a bit flirtatious.
Kaylin
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Reggie gave Kaylin a diamond ring for her birthday. What is the indirect object of the sentence?