To Kill a Mockingbird Mockingbird Rhetoric Hamlet Hamlet

To Kill a Mockingbird

Mockingbird Rhetoric

Hamlet

Hamlet Rhetorical Devices

SAT Preparation

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To Kill a Mockingbird Rhetoric Hamlet Rhetorical Devices SAT Preparation Word of the Day $100 $100 $200 $200 Hamlet $300 $300 $400 $400 $500 $500 $400

1 - 100 This is Scout’s real name.

1 - 100 What is Jean Louise Finch?

This is Atticus’s “secret skill. ”

1 - 100 What is he is a great shooter of guns?

The events of the novel take place during this decade.

1 - 100 What is 1930 s?

The mockingbird motif is associated with this overarching theme of the story.

1 - 100 What is loss of innocence or coming-of-age?

This character is based on an actual historical figure named Ruby Bates.

1 - 100 Who is Mayella Ewell?

When Atticus explains that Mayella was beaten by someone who must have led with his left, he is employing this rhetorical device. 1 - 100

1 - 100 What is logos?

When Atticus says “In the name of God, ” he is employing this rhetorical device.

1 - 100 What is ethos?

When Atticus begins two consecutive sentences with “In the name of God, ” he is employing parallel structure, as well as this device.

1 - 100 What is anaphora?

When Atticus ends two consecutive sentences with “black man, ” he is employing this rhetorical device.

1 - 100 What is epistrophe?

When Atticus suggests that Tom possessed the “unmitigated temerity” to feel sorry for a white woman, unmitigated most likely means this.

1 - 100 What is absolute?

1 - 100 Hamlet tries to prove Claudius’s guilt by doing this.

1 - 100 What is presenting a play called the Mousetrap?

This character immediately acts as a foil for Hamlet, as he also asks for permission to leave Denmark at the beginning of the play.

1 - 100 Who is Laertes?

When Hamlet argues with his mother, this character is hiding behind the curtain.

1 - 100 Who is Polonius?

This is the reason that Hamlet does not kill Claudius when he has the chance.

1 - 100 What is he does not want Claudius to go to heaven?

This is the literary term for when the audience knows something the characters do not know – like who is behind the curtain.

1 - 100 What is dramatic irony?

1 - 100 This is what Hamlet is debating in the “To be or not to be” soliloquy.

1 - 100 What is suicide?

When Hamlet mentions characters like Hecuba and Hercules, he is employing this literary device.

1 - 100 What is allusion?

When Hamlet wishes that “the Everlasting had not fix’d / His canon ’gainst self-slaughter, ” he is suggesting this.

1 - 100 What is his wish that God did not forbid suicide?

When Hamlet talks about churchyards yawning and hell breathing, he is employing this literary device.

1 - 100 What is personification?

When Claudius talks to his knees, he is employing a special type of personification known as this.

1 - 100 What is apostrophe?

1 - 100 Lions and tigers (A) may be identical in size, (B) but the tiger is (C) the fiercer animal and the lion (D) the strongest. (E) No error

1 - 100 D. the strongest

The decline in science education during the period (A) had two causes: less (B) funding for scientific research (C) with a decrease in jobs (D) related to space and defense. (E) No error

1 - 100 C. with a decrease

Crabs (A) living in polluted waters will come (B) in contact with large numbers of disease-causing microorganisms because (C) it feeds (D) by filtering nutrients from water. (E) No error

1 - 100 C. it feeds

The frequent name changes that the country has undergone _____ the political turbulence that has attended its recent history. (A) Argue against (B) Contrast with (C) Testify to (D) Jeopardize (E) Sustain

1 - 100 C. Testify to

Some interactive computer games are so elaborately contrived and require such _______ strategies that only the most ______ player can master. (A) byzantine…adroit (B) nefarious…conscientious (C) devious…lackadaisical (D) onerous…slipshod (E) predictable…compulsive

1 - 100 A. byzantine…adroit

Government by the few, especially a small faction 1 - 100

1 - 100 What is an oligarchy?

To certify, perhaps with a stamp or a seal

1 - 100 What is notarize?

Full of or exhibiting servile compliance – like Roderigo in Othello.

1 - 100 What is obsequious?

An extreme form of skepticism that denies existence is real

1 - 100 What is nihilism?

A half, part, portion, or share

1 - 100 What is moiety?

Jurgis and his family get taken advantage of in this type of bank loan scam, in which the lenders target vulnerable and ignorant people who need money

What is predatory mortgage lending?