Marquez was heavily influenced by this literary work
The Metamorphosis
Name either of the two main characters in A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Pelayo and Elisenda
the action or process of making or becoming greater in size or amount and the literary technique that breaks the details of a story and scatters them throughout
augmentation and fragmentation
the lady who looks like a tarantula
experience of a foreign body within oneself
a bird's wings
freedom
Marquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature in this year
1982
The family initially hides the angel here
The chicken coop
the condition of being illegitimate and the genre of fictional narrative that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value
bastadism and absurdism
the angel being locked away from view, only to be discovered by the people
something that is intended to remain secret now revealed
a visitor piercing the angel is an allusion to when this biblical character was pierced by a spear
Jesus
Marquez was born in this country
Colombia
This steals the attention away from the angel (DAILY DOUBLE)
The tarantula-lady
a theory of international relations established in the post-World War II era that seeks to explain international politics as a result of human nature and literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy
classical realism and magical realism
the light being viewed as water, something it is not
commingling of the familiar and the strange
the angel putting up with abuse and torture is an allusion to the story of this biblical man
Job
Marquez died in this year
2014
Name one of the supposed miracles that the Angel performed on others
cured Elisenda’s child, let a blind man walk again, or helped someone almost win the lottery
a type of cancer that begins in germ cells (sperm or eggs) that occurs most often in the ovaries and testicles and comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss
sac tumor and black humor
the angel viewed as an old man, and creature with wings (DAILY DOUBLE)
commingling of the familiar and the strange
the Angel's cage symbolizes this
societal control
This person called Marquez “the greatest Colombian who ever lived"
Juan Manuel Santos
Elisenda is chopping this root vegetable when the Angel starts to fly
Onions
a combination of statements, ideas, or features of a situation that are opposed to one another and type of fiction in which the author alludes to the artificiality of a work by departing from traditional narrative techniques
contradiction and metafiction
the tarantula lady eating meatballs
commingling of the familiar and the stange
When Father Gonzaga arrives to give his verdict on whether or not it really is an angel, he warns the visitors that it may be a trick of the devil. Similarly, when Jesus healed a man who was supposedly possessed by a demon, he was accused of using the power of this man, the prince of demons
Beelzebub