The device in "Oh, flowers are as common here, Miss Fairfax, as people are in London."
What is a pun? (and epigram for that matter)
100
The traditional purpose of dystopian literature.
What is to warn present society to mend its ways before it is too late?
Example: Stop being Fascist or else we'll live in a police state.
100
The format whose first body paragraph focuses all on what subject (book 1) and second body paragraph focuses on the other subject (book 2).
What is "block format"?
100
The themes of this era's poetry are Love, Death, and Time.
What is the Renaissance?
100
The "albatross" in the lines below.
"And I thought of the albatross/And I wished he would come back, my snake."
What is a literary allusion?
200
The device in "I don’t see much fun in being christened along with other babies. It would be childish."
What is a pun?
200
The ability to actually believe the lie as truth.
What is "doublethink"?
200
The essay compare and contrast essay format whose body paragraphs are organized by each point of comparison.
EX: Body paragraph 1- Topic sentence: Both 1984 and Brave New World share a hatred of cats. In 1984, cats are seen as.....
What is "point-by-point" format?
200
The poet and era of "Porphyria's Lover" and "The Last Duchess."
Who is Robert Browning?
200
The main differences between the Petrarchian and English Sonnet.
What is the position of the volta? What is the rhyme structure?
300
Algernon's posing as Jack's brother Ernest despite the fact that Jack says "I have no brother, that I never had a brother, and that I don’t intend to have a brother, not even of any kind."
What is irony?
300
Examples of paradox in 1984.
What are "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and "Ignorance is Strength"?
300
The three types of persuasive appeals.
What are ethos, logos, and pathos?
300
This era's literature is known for embracing nature and emotions over society, technology, and traditions.
Bonus: Name the greatest poets of the era (5-6).
What is the Romantic Period?
Poets: William Blake, Wordsworth & Coleridge, Byron, Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley
300
Twentieth century poetry often used this poetic form.
What is free verse or vers libre? (Non rhyming, non-metered language)
400
The use of stereotypical characters in Wilde's plays?
What is to satirize Victorian society and emphasis on decorum?
400
Examples of irony in 1984.
What is The Ministry of Love? Ministry of Truth? Ampleforth's appearance in Miniluv? The idea of "The Brotherhood" being a trap for the thoughtpolice?
400
Name three no-nos of formal academic writing (as differing from informal writing.
What are don't use contractions, don't use personal pronouns, don't use questions or exclamations ever, don't rephrase quotes, etc.
400
The literature of this period is marked by journals, nonfiction writing, political satire, pseudonyms, and the birth of Samuel Johnson's dictionary.
What is the Restoration?
400
The Trench Poets use this type of descriptive language to depicts the horrors of war.
What is imagery?
500
The characteristics of a farce (at least 3).
What are mistaken identities, improbable situations, twists of fate, fast pace, focus on plot as opposed to characters, stereotypical characters, high and low comedy, etc...?
500
The literary purpose of Winston Smith's final paradigm shift.
What is to emphasize the dangers of a totalitarian government?
500
Name 5 transition words for compare and contrast essays.
What is:
nevertheless, by the same token, however, similar to, similarly, alike, etc.
500
The greatest medieval poet who wrote in Middle English, albeit with long prologues.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
500
Alliteration was the dominant structural element of this time periods literature.