Lit Terms Short Stories MDG & Cask Romeo & Juliet Tom Sawyer Miracle Worker 1pt 1 pt 1 pt 1pt 1 pt 2 pt 2 pt 2pt 2pt 2 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 4 pt 4 pt 4pt 4 pt 4pt 5pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt

Comparing two things using “like” or “as”

What is a simile?

The main idea or message in a story

What is a theme?

Person or thing in conflict with the main character

What is an antagonist?

A difference between how something appears to be and how it really is

What is irony?

Giving an inanimate object human characteristics

What is personification?

Ship Trap Island

What is the nickname of Zaroff’s island?

Ivan

Who is Zaroff’s servant?

Amontillado

What does Montresor lure Fortunato into the basement with the promise of tasting?

Maylay Mancatcher

What is one of the traps Rainsford makes to escape Zaroff?

Catacombs

Where does Montresor take Fortunato to bury him alive?

Verona

What is the setting for Romeo and Juliet?

Paris

Who wanted to marry Juliet?

Stabbed by Tybalt

Who is Mercutio?

Gave Romeo the fatal poison

Who is the apothecary?

Mercutio talked about this fairy who enters people’s dreams to wreak havoc

Who is Queen Mab?

He was originally blamed for Doc Robinson’s death

Who is Muff Potter?

She adopted Huck Finn to make him a “respectable” boy

Who is Widow Douglas?

He is Tom’s half brother

Who is Sid?

The name of the island where the boys went to become pirates

What is Jackson Island?

Tom beat him up at the beginning of the novel, and Becky used him to make Tom jealous

Who is Alfred Temple?

She is the infant child of Kate and Capt. Keller

Who is Helen Keller?

What the Kellers give Helen to pacify her and keep her calm

What is candy?

He desperately wants attention from his father

Who is James?

Annie’s teacher and mentor at the school for the blind

Who is Anagnos?

Helen’s first spoken word

What is water?