Literary Periods
Frankenstein belongs to this era of literature.
What is Romantic?
Literature that is NOT written in verse or meter.
What is prose?
The author's specific word choice.
What is diction?
Shakespearean sonnets are written in this meter.
What is iambic pentameter?
Elizabeth Lavenza's relation to Victor Frankenstein (at least, in the first edition of the novel).
What is his cousin?
This era of literature represents a "reawakening" desire for Classical (Greco-Roman) literature.
What is the Renaissance?
A humorous imitation of another work.
What is a parody?
An object, person, or action in a text that represents a larger idea behind the text.
A foot that has a stressed syllable - unstressed syllable - unstressed syllable.
What is a dactyl?
The name of literary device in which an author uses two different meanings of a verb simultaneously (and Zoe Tice's favorite literary device because Taylor Swift uses it in her songs).
What is a zeugma?
The most famous Victorian era novelist and the writer of Great Expectations.
Who is (Charles) Dickens?
The genre of long, often novel-length poem, often starting in medias res, featuring intervention by the god(s), and originating from oral tradition.
What is epic (poetry)?
This literary device occurs when an other places two contrasting elements side by side in a text.
What is juxtaposition?
Unrhymed iambic pentameter, such as in Paradise Lost.
What is blank verse?
This Latin phrase, translated as "love conquers all", was featured in the general prologue of The Canterbury Tales.
What is amor omnia vincit?
The literary period in which the Latin phrase sapere aude ("dare to know") was coined by philosopher Immanuel Kant.
What is the Enlightenment?
A type of poem that mourns the dead.
What is elegy?
What is a foil?
The author of "The Banking Concept of Education".
Who is (Paulo) Friere?
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold", a quote from W. B. Yeats in his poem "The Second Coming", belongs to this era of literature.
What is modernism?
This literary genre features hamartia, peripeteia, and anagnorisis.
What is tragedy?
This literary device is a type of metonymy, and occurs when a part of something represents the whole, or vice versa. E.g. calling your car "my wheels".
What is synecdoche?
The name for line of poetry with seven feet and each foot consisting of a trochee.
What is trochaic heptameter?
The phonemic change [p] > [f], such as Latin pater and Greek πατήρ to English father, is an example of this linguistic phenomenon, in which Indo-European sounds shift to Germanic sounds.
What is Grimm's Law?