Literary Concepts
Literary Concepts
Pride and Prejudice
Antony and Cleopatra
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100

What is the term for the central idea or message in a story?

Theme

100

What is a long speech by one character on stage called?

Monologue

100

What theme is introduced in the very first line of the novel?

Marriage

100

Which country symbolizes passion and indulgence?

Egypt

100

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

This is the first sentence of what novel?

Pride and Prejudice

200

What do you call language that appeals to the senses?

Imagery

200

“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew…” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What sound device is used here?

Alliteration

200

Who is Jane’s love interest?

Charles Bingley

200

What is the name of Antony’s deceased wife?

Fulvia

200

What colour is associated with envy in literature and idioms?

Green

300

What is the use of hints about future events in a story?

Foreshadowing

300

“Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me.” – Emily Dickinson

What literary device is used to present Death?

Personification

300

What is the name of the Bennet family estate?

Longbourn

300

What are the names of Cleopatra’s two main attendants in Antony and Cleopatra?

Charmian and Iras

300

What is the name of the Roman leader Cleopatra previously had a child with before Antony?

Julius Caesar

400

What is the term for a reference to another work or historical figure?

Allusion

400

What is a play that ends in suffering or death of the protagonist?

Tragedy

400

Who proposes to Elizabeth and gets rejected?

William Collins

400

What is the term for the political alliance between Antony, Octavius Caesar, and Lepidus?

Triumvirate

400

What was Jane Austen’s original title for Pride and Prejudice?

First Impressions

500

What kind of irony occurs when the audience knows something the character does not?

Dramatic Irony

500

What is the term for a humorous scene or character that appears in a serious or tragic work to relieve tension?

Comic Relief

500

What is Mr. Darcy’s first name?

Fitzwilliam

500

What is the literary term for excessive pride or arrogance that often leads to a character’s downfall?

Hubris

500

Who invented the name "Jessica"?

William Shakespeare

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