Literary Worlds
What is the technique of defamiliarisation?
A literary technique used by composers to present a situation in a way that ‘makes it strange’.
What is the term for the structure of the novel?
Frame narratives or chinese box structure.
Who says about the bible:
"I remember the maps of the Holy Land. Coloured they were. Very pretty. The Dead Sea was pale blue."
ESTRAGON
Which poem is this from?
"And it was déjà-vu, some film made
Of Stalag 17, a bad dream with no sound."
Whatever You Say Say Nothing
What is Ms Zolezzi's favourite colour?
Yellow
What is diacope?
A specific type of repetition where repeated words are broken up by a small collection of words.
e.g. it was a dark night, a dark stormy night.
Who is described as a "pretty present" for Victor?
[full name]
Elizabeth Lavenza
What is the first spoken sentence of the play and by whom?
ESTRAGON: Nothing to be done.
In which poem do we meet a character who is
"Too busy with his knife/ At a tobacco plug"?
Casualty
What books did Ms Zolezzi say she finished reading in the holidays in her introduction to the class in Term 4, 2024?
There were two but I will accept one.
The Wheel of Time
Babel
What text did we read and annotate in our study of Romanticism?
Wuthering Heights
Who was offered to a Turk as a wife?
Safie
To sell his slave, Lucky.
In "Digging," what does the narrator take to his grandfather?
some milk "in a bottle / Corked sloppily with paper"
What month is Ms Zolezzi's birthday?
June
What literary period does "Mrs Dalloway" fit into?
Modernism
List all the books the Monster reads in Frankenstein.
You must identify them ALL or no points.
Milton’s Paradise Lost, portions of Plutarch’s Lives, and Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther.
Which philosopher coined "bad faith" as a means of living an authentic life?
Jean-Paul Satre
Which poem is being described by this critic?
"Heaney leads the reader out of the seeming fog of emotional trauma in the first section, out of the reductive nightmare of spiritual corruption seen in the second, and out of the despair at being apparently unable to find answers to anything in the final section."
Triptych.
What is Ms Zolezzi's favourite text?
Little Women
Define and provide an example of non-sequitur.
A non sequitur is a conversational literary device, often used for comedic purposes. It is something said that, because of its apparent lack of meaning relative to what preceded it, seems absurd to the point of being humorous or confusing.
e.g. Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.
What is the name of the professor at Ingolstadt who first teaches Victor the methods of modern science?
Dr Waldman
How many times does the word 'nothing' appear in the play?
28
Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in what year?
1995
What month did Ms Zolezzi get engaged lest year?
September