Frankenstein
Faust
Tale of Two Cities
Romanticism
Literary Devices
100

The author of Frankenstein.

Who is Mary Shelley? 

100

The original language Faust was written in. 

What is German? 

100
The name of Jerry Cruncher's son.

What is Jerry/Young Jerry?

100

The Romantics held this to be the ultimate power, sometimes for healing, sometimes for destruction.

What is nature?
100

A figure of speech that directly compares two unrelated things by stating one IS the other, suggesting a shared quality.

What is a metaphor?

200

The first name of Doctor Frankenstein.

What is Victor? 

200

Dr. Faust's first name.

What is Heinrich?

200
The Year of Our Lord that the book began.

What is 1775/One Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy-Five?

200

The name of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem about a sailor who shot an albatross.

What is the Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

200

Two similar characters contrasting with one another to bring out their differences.

What is a foil?

300

The subtitle of the book.

What is "Or, the Modern Prometheus"?

300

The full name of the author.

What is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

300

Charles Darnay's real name (not his mother's maiden name)

What is Evremonde/Marquis St. Evremonde?
300

The philosophical movement which Romanticism was reacting to.

What is the Enlightenment (also acceptable: Rationalists/Empiricism)?

300

A non-human thing represented as an acting character (e.g. What Dickens does with the town Saint Antoine).

What is personification?

400

The husband of the author of Frankenstein.

Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?

400

The name of the nocturnal festival of April 30th on which witches gather and dance around bonfires

What is Walpurgis Night?

400

Defarge's true first name (not Jacques)

What is Ernest?

400

The art style that came immediately following Romanticism.

What is Impressionism?

400

A part that metaphorically represents a whole.

What is synecdoche?

500

Any one of the three books (which the monster found in a portmanteau) which made up his education.

What is Paradise Lost (Milton), Plutarch's Lives, and The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe)?

500

The words said by the voice of God at the very end of the book as Mephistopheles is saying Gretchen is condemned.

What is "is saved!" ?

500

The address of Dr. Manette's prison cell.

What is One Hundred and Five, North Tower?

500

The names of two Romantic painters.

Who are (any two of the following): Delacroix, Goya, Turner, Freidrich, Rousseau, Church, Cole, Bierstadt, Constable, Blake, Courbet, Daumier, Millet?

500

A descriptive technique used by Dickens to create vivid, memorable scenes, like snapshots or a striking, still moment on stage.

What is a tableaux?

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