METAPHOR OR SIMILE: “The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner.'

METAPHOR OR SIMILE: 'I'm happier than a pig in mud.'

METAPHOR OR SIMILE: “Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet.'

METAPHOR OR SIMILE: 'Men's words are bullets, that their enemies take up and make use of against them.'

Create a SIMILE using 'tests' or 'testing' as the subject of your sentence.

NAME THE TYPE OF IRONY: In both the book and film versions of THE WIZARD OF OZ, Dorothy travels to a wizard and fulfills her challenging demands to go home, before discovering she had the ability to go back home all the time.

NAME THE TYPE OF IRONY: The title of the short story 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair.'

NAME THE TYPE OF IRONY: In the play ROMEO AND JULIET, the audience knows that Juliet appears to be dead, but is really just asleep. Romeo, however, believes she is truly dead, and takes poison to commit suicide.

NAME THE TYPE OF IRONY: describing someone 'as pleasant and relaxed as a coiled rattlesnake.'

NAME THE TYPE OF IRONY: At the end of the short story 'Story of an Hour,' Mrs. Mallard, who has a weak heart, dies unexpectedly when her husband walks through the door. She dies because she is literally heartbroken that he is alive (loss of potential freedom). The doctors say she died because she was happy to see him alive, of, '...joy that kills.'

NAME THE SOUND DEVICE(S) USED: 'Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog-fox gone to ground.'

NAME THE SOUND DEVICE(S) USED: A box of biscuits / A box of mixed biscuits / And a biscuit mixer

NAME THE SOUND DEVICE(S) USED: Betty Botter had some butter, / 'But,' she said, 'this butter's bitter. / If I bake this bitter butter, / It would make my batter bitter. / But a bit of better butter, / That would make my batter better.' / So she bought a bit of butter – / Better than her bitter butter – / And she baked it in her batter; / And the batter was not bitter. / So 'twas better Betty Botter / Bought a bit of better butter.

NAME THE SOUND DEVICE(S) USED: A tutor who tooted the flute / Tried to tutor two tooters to toot / Said the two to the tutor / “Is it tougher to toot / Or to tutor two tooters to toot?”

NAME THE SOUND DEVICE(S) USED: Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. / While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. / Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. / Freezy trees made these trees’ cheese freeze. / That’s what made these three free fleas sneeze.

The part of the story where conflict escalates (gets worse).

Define the term 'climax' in relation to a story.

The part of the story where setting, character, and background information is established.

Describe the climax of the short story 'Story of an Hour?'

The fancy (French) name for the resolution section of the story. / (10 bonus points for correct pronunciation)

NAME THE LITERARY TERM: 'Pink is what red looks like when it kicks off its shoes and lets its hair down. Pink is the boudoir color, the cherubic color, the color of Heaven's gates... Pink is as laid back as beige, but while beige is dull and bland, pink is laid back with attitude.'

NAME THE LITERARY TERM: In Fitzgerald's novel THE GREAT GATSBY, weather is used to indicate characters' moods and plot shifts.

NAME THE LITERARY TERM: a reference to something famous to make a point (i.e.: history, art, politics, literature, science, pop culture, sports, etc.)

NAME THE LITERARY TERM: the feeling the author brings to the piece or the attitude the author takes (towards the subject, audience, or character[s]).

NAME THE LITERARY TERM: a symbol that repeats (i.e.: the color green in THE GREAT GATSBY).

TWO PARTS: (1.) Describe the CLIMAX of the short story 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair.' / (2.) Describe the CLIMAX of the novel THE GREAT GATSBY. / Be prepared to defend your answers!