Opening Sentence | Who said that? | Literary words | Characters | Short stories/ poetry |
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What is
Moby Dick
Call me Ishmael
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What is
Billy Bibbit
"Ah, it's n-no use. I should just k-k-kill myself."
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What is
Alliteration
Sandy saw seals at the seashore
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What is
Edna Pontellier
Not the mother of the year
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What is
Porphyria's Lover
Murmuring how she loved me- she too weak, for her hearts endeavor, to set its struggling passion free from pride, and gainer ties dissever, and give herself to me for ever.
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What is
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
They're out there.
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What is
Iago
"But such a handkerchief- I am sure it was your wife's- did I today see Casio wipe his beard with."
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What is
Metaphor
A figure of speech using an implied comparison of two seemingly unlike things for their common qualities
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What is
Randle McMurphy
Big red headed gambler, a con man, and a backwoods boxer.
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What is
Young Goodman Brown
Faith kept me back a while
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What is
Catch-22
It was love at first sight.
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What is
Azar
"Wars a bitch."
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What is
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another associated with it. "The White House declared"
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What is
Jay Gatsby
A wealthy young man living in a gothic mansion
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What is
A rose for Emily
Yellow
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What is
Pride and Prejudice
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, ,just be in want of a wife.
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What is
Tea Cake
"'Tain't no trouble tush say whut's already so. You'se uh pretty woman outside uh bein' nice."
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What is
Prose
Fiction and nonfiction written in ordinary language- anything that isn't a poetry or drama.
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What is
John
The son of the director.
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What is
To his coy Mistress
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
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What is
Waiting For Godot
Nothing to be done.
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What is
Yossarian
"Don't believe the official report."
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What is
Syntax
The way the author puts phrases, clauses, and sentences together.
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What is
Bianca
A courtesan
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What is
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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