Archetypal Hero
Othello
A Raisin in the Sun
Madison
Mad Sons
100
Stories about archetypal heroes follow a specific sequence of events called this.
What is the Hero's Journey?
100
This is how Shakespeare reveals a character's thoughts to the audience.
What is soliloquy or aside?
100
The play is set in this decade.
What are the 1950s?
100
Madison has this many floors.
What is 7?
100
In the bible, this son of Abraham would have been really mad at his father for agreeing to sacrifice him to God.
Who is Isaac?
200
After the hero crosses the threshold, he or she enters this middle phase (of three main phases) of the Hero's Journey.
What is the Initiation?
200
This is the dramatic effect in which the audience knows more than a character does.
What is dramatic irony?
200
This is Beneatha's internal conflict.
What is her identity?
200
Madison has this many exists from the building directly onto the street.
What is 4?
200
Jorge is the son of this Cuban ex-dictator and he got mad when his uncle took control of Cuba.
What is Who is Fidel Castro?
300
This is the era and region of the world that created the archetypal hero.
What is Ancient Greece?
300
Shakespeare uses this literary technique to help his audience characterize Desdemona not only as loyal, but as divinely pure (godlike in purity).
What is juxtaposition to Emilia?
300
This is Walter's internal conflict.
What is what kind of man he will be?
300
This is the quotation engraved directly above the main entrance to Madison.
What is "Education is the true foundation of civil liberty"?
300
Eric Snipes is the mad son of this man who died in police custody after being put in a headlock by the arresting NYPD officers in Staten Island.
What is Who is Eric Garner?
400
This is the BIGGEST diversion from the Ancient Greek archetype that we see in modern Heroes' Journeys.
What are female heroes?
400
Othello is a tragedy because this many people have died by the end of the play.
What is 5 (Brabantio, Othello, Emilia, Desdemona & Roderigo)?
400
Hansberry uses a dying plant, struggling to survive as a symbol that tells the audience this message.
What is the Younger family is dying but struggling to survive?
400
This female Supreme Court Justice graduated from James Madison High School in 1950.
What is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
400
This current NY governor got mad when citizens started a petition against renaming the Tappan-Zee Bridge after his father Mario Cuomo.
Who is Andrew Cuomo?
500
This is the character that guides the hero through his or her trials.
What is the mentor?
500
This is how you spell the author's last name.
What is S-H-A-K-E-S-P-E-A-R-E?
500
This is why Clybourne Park is a dangerous place for the Younger's to live.
What is it is a white neighborhood?
500
Madison is bordered by these four city blocks.
What are Bedford Ave, Quentin Rd, East 27th St, and Ave. P?
500
Prince George got mad at his dad, this future king of England, when his sister, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana was born last May.
Who is Prince William?
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