Literary History
Literary movement in the late 1800's named after the Queen of England, which explores topics such as industrialization, proper conduct, and colonization
What is Victorianism?
This refers to where a story takes place, and can impact the story's plot and mood
This character is an old lady who suffers from dementia, who eventually gets replaced by an AI version of herself
Who is Marjorie?
Nothing is happining. I had lots of tests and different kinds of races with Algernon. I hate that mouse. He always beats me.
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes, Fiction
This science-fiction author is well known for his short story "The Veldt" and his novel Fahrenheit 451
Who is Ray Bradbury?
Literary movement loosely from the end of World War I to World War II which explores concepts such as alienation, technological advancement, experimentation with form, and war trauma
What is modernism?
The viewpoint that a character or author has towards the events or topics in the text
What is tone?
Known as Dr. Jekyll's alter ego, this violent character is described as unsettling despite people not knowing exactly what's wrong with him
Who is Mr. Hyde?
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The Second Coming, W.B. Yeats, Poetry
This Danish author is known for writing violent and dark stories, and a lot of biographers read his issues with unrequited love into fairytales such as "The Little Mermaid"
Who is Hans Christian Andersen?
What is the Southern Gothic?
Saying one thing while meaning another, usually for a comedic or emphatic effect
What is irony?
This character suffers from an intellectual disability but undergoes surgery to make him intelligent
Who is Charlie Gordon?
"And of course it wasn't Toni exactly. But the longer they had her, the less it mattered which Toni had run along the beach, or which Toni had dug up all the bulbs in the garden. The more time passed, the more she became the same dog in their memories"
Marjorie Prime, Jordan Harrison, Play
This playwright won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for his play "Marjorie Prime"
Who is Jordan Harrison?
Literary movement taking place after World War II which is categorized as skeptical and cynical, and questions broad overarching power structures
What is postmodernism?
The phenomenon of something evoking both disgust and pity at the same time
What is the grotesque?
Who is Homer Barron?
"No," said the old woman, "Unless a man were to love you so much that you were more to him than his father or mother; and if all his thoughts and all his love were fixed upon you, and the priest placed his right hand in yours, and he promised to be true to you here and hereafter, then his soul would glide into your body and you would obtain a share in the future happiness of mankind. He would give a soul to you and retain his own as well; but this can never happen."
The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen, Fiction
This Irish poet was also a politician during his lifetime
Who is W.B. Yeats?
This term refers to interracial relationships, which was an anxiety explored in Southern Gothic literature
What is miscegenation
What are stage directions?
This character advises the Hadley family to abandon their HappyLife home and live without technology
Who is Dr. McClean?
"Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the furtherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering. And it chanced that the direction of my scientific studies, which led wholly towards the mystic and the transcendental, reacted and shed a strong light on this consciousness of the perennial war among my members. With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two."
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Fiction
This author was the original novelist for the film "Never Let Me Go"
Who is Kazuo Ishiguro?