Literature References
The subtitle of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
What is The Modern Prometheus?
A word that imitates or suggests the sound it represents.
What is onomatopoeia?
Poetry with nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech and have no fixed structure.
What is free-verse poetry?
The day of Read-A-Thon.
When is October 31st?
The cuisine of the restaurant Aki works at.
What is Vietnamese?
The last name of the literary siblings who used the pen names Acton Bell, Currer Bell, and Ellis Bell due to stigmatisation of female authors at the time.
Brontë
A story where characters or events represent larger ideas.
What is an allegory?
A three-line Japanese poetic form with a five-seven-five syllable structure that captures a moment in time, often featuring nature.
What is a haiku?
The day of the Art & Writing Showcase.
When is Tuesday, October 21st?
The religion Aki practices.
What is Buddhism?
The Shakespeare play featuring the line "Screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail."
What is Macbeth?
A common phrase that means something other than its literal wording, often dependent on cultural context.
What is an idiom?
A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.
What is an ode?
The deadline for Scholastics Art & Writing Awards.
When is December 12th?
Aki's favorite jazz album.
What is "Head Hunters" by Herbie Hancock?
The poet who wrote the following lines: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I… I took the one less traveled by."
Who is Robert Frost?
Repetition of a word or phrase at the start of successive sentences.
What is an anaphora?
A five-line poem with a specific AABBA rhyme scheme and a humorous, often nonsensical, subject.
What is a limerick?
The next workshop held by Ori.
What is world building?
The name of the crab on Aki's keys.
Who is Carlos?
Whom Grendel from Beowulf is descended from.
Who is the biblical figure Cain?
When two or more parallel clauses are inverted.
What is chiasmus?
A complex form of six six-line stanzas followed by a three-line envoi, where the end words of the first stanza are repeated in a specific pattern at the end of the lines in the subsequent stanzas.
What is a sestina?
The last workshop of the year on December 16.
What is holiday card and bookmark making?
The only color Aki has dyed his entire head of.
What is purple?