L.E.T.'s do this!
Something that stands for or suggests something larger and more complex than what it actually is.
What is a symbol?
Elizabethan poet and playwright who wrote at least 37 plays and over 150 poems.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This structural technique occurs when a poetic line moves onto the next without terminal punctuation. It is often used to maintain a poem's rhythm or to create a specific pacing that reflects the speaker's state of mind
Enjambment
This character, often mistakenly called by his creator's name, is a "man of parts" who projects the perils of a man seeking to play God.
Who is Frankenstein's Monster? (Or Creature)
Mr. Miller's daughter
Who is Kaylee?
Two of the more well-known forms of Sonnets
What are English and Petrarchan?
An indirect reference to a person, event, statement, theme or work made to enrich meaning through the connotations they carry.
What is an allusion?
What is existentialism?
A phrase, line, or group of lines repeated at intervals throughout a poem, often at the end of a stanza. This "patterned" repetition serves to emphasize core themes or shift the poem's emotional weight.
Refrain
In Invisible Man, this manipulative leader recruits the narrator into the Brotherhood but ultimately uses him for political purposes.
Brother Jack
How many siblings does Mr. Miller have?
One - Brother
A story or poem that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
What is an allegory?
Harsh, unpleasant, or discordant sounds.
What is cacophony?
A 19th-century (1800 to 1860) literary movement emphasizing emotion and imagination, rather than logic and scientific thought in response to the Enlightenment.
What is Romanticism?
In drama, this occurs when a character speaks directly to the audience or another character while being "unheard" by others on stage. It is a critical tool for revealing a character's internal conflict or private motivations that contradict their public actions
[aside]
In Crime and Punishment, this character represents moral redemption and encourages Raskolnikov to confess.
Sonia (Sofya Marmeladov)
Mr. Miller's top 3 favorite authors
Who are J.R.R. Tolkien, David Foster Wallace and Hunter S. Thompson?
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
Name that poem.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
A statement that seems self-contradictory or nonsensical on the surface but that, upon closer examination, may express an underlying truth.
What is a paradox?
A 20th century literary genre that often involves supernatural phenomena in an otherwise real-world or mundane setting.
What is magical realism?
This figure of speech uses a part of something to represent the whole (e.g., "all hands on deck"). In literature, writers use this to focus the reader's attention on specific, significant details that stand in for a larger, more complex reality.
Synecdoche
This character stands alone in a high-stakes dramatic situation, using "relevant and sufficient evidence" to challenge the "overarching thesis" of his peers and maintain his "pride and self-respect" against a majority opinion.
Juror 8 (12 Angry Men)
Mr. Miller's currently listening to ___________.
(Song and Artist)
"Barroom Feather" Yonder Mountain String Band
Associated with thinkers like Jacques Derrida, this school of literary theory argues that language is unstable and texts contain internal contradictions that undermine fixed meaning.
Poststructuralism (Deconstruction)
A long speech that a character gives to the audience to express their deepest thoughts and emotions.
What is a soliloquy?
A novelist whose parents were well-known political philosophers and feminist activists.
Who is Mary Shelley?
a form of extended metaphor that often appears in poetry, developing complex comparisons that present images, concepts, and associations in surprising or paradoxical ways.
Conceit
In Crime and Punishment, this calculating character uses Luzhin’s failed scheme to expose his moral corruption and assert his own intellectual dominance.
Arkady Svidrigailov
Mr. Miller's wife's occupation
Therapist
"Ah, love, let us be true
To one another!"
[name that poem and poetic device]
Dover Beach, Apostrophe
This literary element is described in the AP Standards as "The arrangement of the parts and sections of a text, the relationship of the parts to each other, and the sequence in which the text reveals information are all structural choices made by a writer that contribute to the reader’s interpretation of a text."
Narration
This 20th-century literary movement, associated with writers like T.S. Eliot and James Joyce, is known for fragmentation, stream of consciousness, and a break from traditional narrative forms.
What is Modernism?
These assume there are no “gray areas”, limited in scope, and suggesting one side is better than the other, creating a hierarchy. These also create conflict, contrast, and invite complexity
What are binaries?
Though she shares her name with a theological virtue, this character is ultimately identified by her husband not by her face, but by a "pink ribbon" fluttering down from a dark cloud in the sky.
Faith, "Young Goodman Brown"
Mr. Miller's taught previously in two separate places before Gallatin High School -- name either each of the high schools or the cities in which those schools are located.
Erie, CO; Erie High School (would accept Denver, though they are completely separate)
Browning, MT; Browning High School
On the ghost ship of Rime of The Ancient Mariner, these two figures are seen playing a game of dice to determine the fate of the Mariner and his crew.
Who are Death and Life-in-Death?
a. The following is a popular example of this poetic device,
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by,"
b. which also achieves the effect of ____________.
What is caesura? What are inner contemplation, conflict, or hesitation?
Though often treated as a unified “period,” this term for early medieval English literature is a retrospective label; works like Beowulf predate the national identity it implies.
What is Anglo-Saxon literature?
The following sentence utilizes this sentence structure device, popular in both speeches and literature:
"The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason." (G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1908)
What is symploce, the combination of both anaphora and epistrophe?
This "man of many parts" and master of disguise is mistaken for the Narrator because of a pair of dark-green sunglasses and a wide-brimmed hat, representing a world where identity is purely fluid and opportunistic.
Who is Rinehart?
Mr. Miller's middle name is not technically a family name; while it comes from his grandfather, it's actually __________.
His grandfather's nickname ("Sam" / "Samuel")
What is the probability of choosing the correct answer to this question?
A) 25%
B) 50%
C) 60%
D) 25%
There is no answer.
Double Points: this problem is known as the "self-referential probability paradox"