Authors
He's considered to be Margaret Atwood's major influence when she began to write The Handmaid's Tale.
Who is George Orwell ?
That's the name of the king whose nursery rhyme "divorced, beheaded and died, divorced, beheaded, survived" is referring to.
Who is King Henry VIII ?
It is the genre that was made popular in the English-speaking world by Poe, Shelley or Stoker.
What is gothic (horror) ?
It is the process of including something into something else of the same nature.
What is a mise en abyme ?
It is the type of shot that will focus on the landscape, framing the subject from a very long distance.
What is an extreme long shot ?
He is the creator of jazz poetry.
Who is Langston Hughes ?
His real name was William F Cody.
Who is Buffalo Bill ?
That's the type of poetry Shakespeare wrote.
What's a sonnet ?
That's the adjective that qualifies a narrator the reader or viewer shouldn't trust.
What is "unreliable" ?
It is the technique that uses what is in the background to create a meaningful effect
What is the depth of field ?
It is considered to be Shakespeare's most famous metric
What is the iambic pentameter ?
That's the character the segregation laws were named after ?
Who is Jim Crow ?
It is the subgenre described by Margaret Atwood as being a dystopia where nothing has been added that doesn't already exist or hasn't existed in the past.
What is speculative fiction ?
That's the term representing a stereotype in a story or in a movie.
What's a trope ?
It is the word describing modern western movies after the 1950s, where the depiction of Native Americans and settlers is more balanced.
What is revisionist ?
She wrote Mrs Dalloway, a novel famous for constant stream of consciousness
Who is Virginia Woolf ?
That is the name of the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion all over the USA in 1972.
What is Roe v Wade ?
It is the name John Waterhouse, Frank Dicksee and Arthur Hughes for example, gave to their brotherhood.
What are the Pre-Raphaelites ?
It is the process of overusing OR, AND or BUT in a sentence.
What is a polysyndeton ?
He is the director of The Searchers
Who is John Ford ?
That is the name of the German author whose pyramid is supposed to describe the stages of many dramatic plots.
Who is Gustav Freytag ?
It is the country where The Pilgrims lived for ten years before they sailed to America aboard The Mayflower.
What is The Netherlands ?
He was the author who first wrote about a utopia, thus giving the name of his work to the genre.
Who is Sir Thomas More ?
It is the term used to define an increase, especially regarding an emotion or effect (tension, for example)
What is "heightening" ?
This is the movie that John Wayne won an Academy Award for and that was remade in 2010 by the Coen Brothers, starring Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld.
What is True Grit ?