Poetry
Allusions
Novel Characters
Literary Terms
Authors
100
A 14 line poem
What is a sonnet
100
Narrow minded, prudish
Who is Mrs. Grundy?
100
forced to wear a letter that is embroidered onto her shirt
Who is Hester Prynne?
100
overexageration
What is a hyperbole?
100
16th century poet that articulated and forever the English language
Who is William Shakespere
200
iambic but varying line lengths
What is an ode?
200
God granted him great wisdom
Who is Soloman?
200
creation that terrorized the townspeople
Who is Frankenstein's monster?
200
situational, verbal, dramatic
What is irony?
200
Often considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian Era and of all time
Who is Charles Dickens?
300
5 terecets, 1 quatrain
What is a villanelle?
300
No trust in others
What is a Doubting Thomas?
300
Arrogant bank owner
Who is Josiah Bounderby?
300
substitute one word or phrase with another that is closely related
What is metonymy?
300
Female Victorian writer, famous for her classic novel involving alienation and horror
Who is Mary Shelly?
400
This poem refers to men as "Wise men, Good men, Wild men, and Grave men
What is Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night?
400
Greek Mythology, male beauty
What is Adonis?
400
Assertion seemingly opposed to common sense because it contains a contradiction, but may have some truth in it?
What is a paradox?
400
His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism
Who is Albert Camus
500
Helped form the conception of Americans as tough, self-sufficient individuals
Who is Robert Frost?
500
Weak, or unassertive person
What is a Milquetoast?
500
Man who is in love with Mersault's decesed mother
Who is Thomas Perez?
500
A figure of speech that employs the use of a part for the whole, or the whole for the part
What is a synecdoche?
500
literary critic that wrote a novel retelling the ancient myth of beowulf
Who is John Gardner
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