Hordle ordle durr

Last week I gave a quiz on 20 essential literary terms. Prior to this, I gave my students a worksheet with the terms and had them write the definitions. Mind you, these are essential terms, not random things I want them to know for my own amusement. I told them last week that they could study their terms and their quizzes (so they'd know which ones they missed), and they could retake the quiz today for a higher grade. 

I didn't just have some kids who did worse on this quiz than the previous quiz. I had kids who just memorized the order of the correct answers on the previous quiz, erroneously thinking that I would give them the exact same quiz this time too. 

Man, you should have been in my classroom to see the looks of absolute surprise when they discovered that I'm not a total idiot and I changed the order of the literary terms and the definitions. It's safe to say that many pants were shat. Then there was this brilliant exchange:

Student *working on her CRT prep packet*: What's theme?

Me: What do you mean, what's theme? 

Student: What does it mean?

Me: It's on your lit terms, and it was on both quizzes.

Student: It was?

Me: Don't talk to me.

You know what this calls for, don't you?