Story Structure
What is often the term for a main character in a story?
What is a hero?
_______ is the hero and _______ is the villain in the play Macbeth.
Who are MacDuff and Macbeth?
What book has the lines, "Six Little Soldier Boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five"?
What is And Then There Were None?
What is England?
Why did Jane Austen write Pride and Prejudice?
What is to criticize her society's marriage institutions?
What is the literary term for the name of the person who writes a book?
What is an author?
_______ is the hero and _______ is the villain in the novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde?
Who are Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde?
Which book begins with the words, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"?
What is Pride and Prejudice?
From what country did Bram Stoker come?
What is Ireland?
Why did the authors of Celtic legends and lore pass down their stories?
What is to inspire good values in their people?
What literary term we learned this year refers to the best example of something; James Bond is one, as well as certain, significant numbers (like 3 or 12).
What is Archetype?
_______ is the hero and _______ is the villain in "The Story of Finn MacCool?"
Who are Finn MacCool and Finn's uncle, the king.
What play has the lines, "Look like th’ innocent flower/ But be the serpent under ’t.”
What is Macbeth?
From what country does Robert Louis Stevenson come?
What is Scotland?
Why did the scops who told the saga of Beowulf preserve their tales?
What is to show the change in society from pagan to Christian values?
What specific story structure, that we read this year, appears in both The Canterbury Tales and Frankenstein?
What is a Frame Story?
_______ is the hero and _______ is the villain in "The Cauldron of Changes"?
Who are Gwion and Ceridwen? (Also acceptable answers are Merlin and Talesin, Gwion's other names.)
What ancient British Isles saga contains the words, "I shall gain glory or die.” “Fate will unwind as it must!” ?
What is Beowulf?
From what county do the story of "The Cauldron of Changes" come?
What is Wales?
Why did Robert Louis Stevenson write The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde?
What is to warn of the evils of alcohol?
What kind of book, organized around characters who write letters that relate the plot and character development, is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
What is an epistolary novel?
_______ is the hero and _______ is the villain in the story of Beowulf.
Who are Beowulf and Grendel?
Which of the books we read Spring Semester contains the lines, “The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led the Eloi to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size strength and intelligence.”
What is The Time Machine?
From what country does the story of Beowulf come?
Why did Bram Stoker write Dracula?
What is Stoker was racially prejudiced against immigrants?