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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?