A Doll's House
What is the name of the father and husband in the play?
Torvald
Words that appeal to the five senses are called:
Imagery
“Lips like sugar...sugar kisses”- Simile or Metaphor?
Simile
What is a stanza?
A group of lines
Which text structure relies on the flow of time and sequence?
Chronological
What is the name of the country in which the play was written?
Norway
What is a question that is not expected to be answered?
Rhetorical question
Vocabulary word that focuses on the emotional context of an author’s word choice?
Connotation
This line from "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden most appeals to the sense of ______?
'through refracting tears'
sight
Name all 3 terms external Conflict is between (character vs. ____)
Society, nature, or character
What holiday is being celebrated at the time of this play?
Christmas
Jerk = to tug something suddenly: is this denotation or connotation?
Denotation
What is dramatic irony?
When the audience knows something the characters do not.
Read the following line from the poem 'Monet's Waterlilies'.. is it an allusion, alliteration or simile?
'Today as the news from Selma and Saignon’
Allusion
Read the passage from "Two Kinds.”
And then I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me—because I had never seen that face before. I looked at my reflection, blinking so I could see more clearly. The girl staring back at me was angry, powerful. This girl and I were the same. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won'ts. I won't let her change me, I promised myself. I won't be what I'm not.
Is this extrinsic motivation or intrinsic??
Intrinsic motivation: The narrator refuses to change her true nature to please someone else.
Helmer is a ______ archetype
ruler
Is this an overstatement or an understatement? and a simile or a metaphor?
Unfortunately, it is precisely the men or women of genius who mind most what is said of them. Remember Keats. Remember the words he had cut on his tombstone. Think of Tennyson; think but I need hardly multiply instances of the undeniable, if very fortunate, fact that it is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Overstatement and metaphor
What does one call the non-speaking parts of the script of a play that describe the characters’ actions?
Stage Directions
What is the difference between fixed form poetry and free form?
Fixed form:
Poetry that relies on a strict number of lines, stanzas, rhyme, or rhythm
Free form: no regular rhyme or meter number of lines
Which rhetorical device is used in the underlined portion of this text?
She had no chance of learning grammar and logic, let alone of reading Horace and Virgil. She picked up a book now and then, one of her brother's perhaps, and read a few pages. But then her parents came in and told her to mend the stockings or mind the stew and not moon about with books and papers. They would have spoken sharply but kindly, for they were substantial people who knew the conditions of life for a woman and loved their daughter.
Alliteration
Which two characters lost their spouses before the play begins?
Christine and Krogstad
What rhetorical device is being used here??
There's emptiness behind their eyes / There's dust in all their hearts / They just want to steal us all and take us all apart
Metaphor
What is an archetype??
D. a character, image, or theme that stands as a universal symbol for basic human experiences
What was the “miracle” Nora hoped for?
That Torvald would step up and take the blame, showing his love was more important than his honor.
What is the equation for inference?
Text evidence + prior knowledge