The three main types of literature are prose, poetry, and ________.
What is drama?
100
The name for stories that are written about the struggles young people go through as they enter adulthood.
What is coming of age?
100
Giving human-like qualities to an inanimate object.
What is personification?
100
This story is credited for helping improve the healthcare of women in America, especially mental healthcare.
What is "The Yellow Wallpaper"?
100
The father of transcendentalism.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
200
The most concentrated (says the most in the fewest words) genre of literature.
What is poetry?
200
The characteristics of this style include characters who are misfits, the dark side of humanity, and a Southern setting.
What is Southern Gothic?
200
The seeds in Death of a Salesman.
What is a symbol?
200
This writer is known for portraying down-and-out characters who worked with their hands as they pursued the American Dream. He won a Pulitzer for his novel that depicts farmers displaced by the Dust Bowl.
Who is John Steinbeck?
200
These two writers studied this semester are Minnesota natives.
Who are F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tim O'Brien?
300
Where a thesis statement appears in a paper.
What is the introduction and the conclusion?
300
A narrative in which characters and objects symbolize abstract ideas.
What is allegory?
300
A philosophy that focuses on nature and the importance of staying true to one's own individuality.
What is transcendentalism?
300
This novel portrays the dream American's have of being self-supportive and able to "live off the fatta the land."
What is Of Mice and Men?
300
This very prolific writer and Princeton professor took inspiration for one of her most famous short stories from an article in Life magazine titled "The Pied Piper of Tuscon."
Who is Joyce Carol Oates?
400
Type of writing or speaking that aims to sway the audience's opinion to agree with the writer or speaker.
What is persuasion?
400
When a story's ending is questionable, such as the ending of "Where are you Going, Where have you Been?"
What is an interpretive ending?
400
This type of irony is used when Mr. Shiftlet in "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" asks God to "wash the slime from this earth!" and a rainshower suddenly pours down on Mr. Shiftlet.
What is dramatic irony?
400
This literary work portrays an average American family as they struggle to achieve the stereotypical American dream, even though it forces them to deceive themselves and others.
What is Death of a Salesman?
400
This writer was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify in front of the Un-American Activities Committee.
Who is Arthur Miller?
500
The fourth step in Monroe's Motivated Sequence.
What is visualization?
500
The titles The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, "Where are You Going, Where have you Been?" are ______________ to other famous works.
What are allusions?
500
The five types of imagery are....
What are sight/visual, sound, smell/olfactory, touch/tactile, and taste/gustatory?
500
Name three works of literature we studied this semester that are about the attempt to achieve the American Dream.
What is Death of a Salesman, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
500
This writer's unique style is characterized by short sentences, concrete imagery, and a lot of dialogue, probably due to his training as a journalist.