the Shelleys
The name of Mary Shelley's mother.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
Especially prominent in YA novels like the Hunger Games and Twilight, this trope is irritating to many readers.
What is the love triangle?
"To love another person is to see the face of God" is a quote from this book.
What is Les Misérables?
This Irish modernist author is best known for his piece about a day in Dublin.
Who is James Joyce?
An ancient greek philosopher who believed in using dialectic as a means to find the "absolute truth".
Who is Plato?
Age of Mary Shelley when she met Percy.
16 years old
From the Harry Potter series to Star Wars, this trope pops up again and again in the adventure story lexicon.
What is the Chosen One trope?
The author of the satirical novel that explored faraway lands such as Lilliput, Blefuscu, and Brobdingnag on a voyage originally bound for the South Seas.
Who is Jonathan Swift?
The author of Heart of Darkness.
Who is Joseph Conrad?
One of Aristotle's 3 proofs that refers to an argument that appeals to the audience by emphasizing the speaker's credibility and authority.
What is ethos?
How Percy Shelley died.
What is drowning?
The trope that best describes Darcy and Elizabeth's relationship trajectory in Pride and Prejudice.
What is Enemies to Lovers?
The Russian author of Crime and Punishment.
Who is Fyodor Dostoyevsky?
This 1922 long form poem is some of T.S Eliot's best work.
What is the Waste Land?
The appeal (Aristotle's 3 proofs) that is most emphasized in this quote from Frederick Douglass:
"...suddenly you hear a quick snap, like the discharge of a rifle; the fetters clank, and the chain rattles simultaneously; your ears are saluted with a scream, that seems to have torn its way to the centre of your soul!"
What is pathos?
The name of Percy Shelley's first wife.
Who is Harriet?
This homophobic trope cost the TV series The 100 an abundance of loyal viewers after season 3.
What is Bury Your Gays?
"Pine Eyes" is the literal translation of this character's name in the Italian novel.
Who is Pinocchio?
This Irish writer is known for plays such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame.
Who is Samuel Beckett?
The name of the group of professional teachers in 5th century B.C.E. who travelled Greece teaching the art of rhetoric as a way to manipulate the truth, not share the "absolute truth."
Who are the Sophists?
The name of Percy Shelley's first large poetic work.
What is Queen Mab?
The Age-Gap Romance trope existed between these two characters in Charlotte Bronte's novel.
Who are Mr. Rochester and Jane Eyre?
The French author of The Phantom of the Opera.
Who is Gaston Leroux?
This Southern Gothic novel has fifteen characters, a dying mother, and the iconic line "My mother is a fish".
What is As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner?
Aristotle's 5 canons of rhetoric.
What are invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery?