The Things They Carried
Pygmalion
Frankenstein
Famous Authors
Poetry
100
Narrator who is drafted into the Vietnam War and who goes through many traumatic experiences with his platoon.
Tim O'Brien
100
I am the man who changed the life of Eliza Doolittle by teaching her how to speak and act in British Society.
Who is Henry Higgins?
100
I am the main character in Frankenstein who is often confused with the creature I created.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
100
I am an American novelist best known for his work of fiction, The Things They Carried (1990), a critically acclaimed collection of semi-autobiographical, interrelated short stories inspired by O'Brien's experiences in the Vietnam War
Who is Tim O'Brien
100
a basic comparison of two generally unlike things that produced insight.
What is metaphor?
200
Tim O'Brien tells a story about how he was an anti-war activist. He was then drafted. He was shocked and frustrated, and waffled between running away to Canada to avoid the draft and simply going. He does not want to disgrace his family, but neither does he want to go to war. He says, "I survived, but it's not a happy ending. I was a coward. I went to war" (244).
What is Paradox.
200
I am an expert in Sanskrit, and an all-around nice guy. Eliza credits my gentlemanly ways for starting her transformation from flower girl to duchess.
Who is Colonel Pickering?
200
While on Vacation at Lake Como, I was adopted by the Frankenstein's after being orphaned by my family.
Who is Elizabeth?
200
I was born in 1797 to William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. I met and fell in love with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and wrote my first novel when I was 20 years old.
Who is Marry Shelley
200
an elaborate simile that compares an ordinary event or situation with the more complex idea in the text that is often recognized by the use of "just as, so then."
What is an epic or Homeric simile?
300
Kiowa's death in The Things They Carried, and especially the location and physical content of the location where he died, functions as a __________ for American Involvement in the Viet Nam War.
What is Metaphor?
300
I function as a metaphor for how the lower, middle class are perceived by Upper Class Englishmen in the play Pygmalion. I am eventually ruined by an American philanthropist millionaire named "Ezra Wanafeller".
Who is Alfred Doolittle
300
Mary Shelley wrote this novel during this period in literary history, (best known for its affinity with nature and the supernatural).
What is the Romantic Period
300
I am an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
a figure of speech in which some significant aspect of an experience is used to represent the whole experience.
What is metonymy?
400
Throughout the book,The Things They Carried, O'Brien switches back and forth between narrative voices, making the question about what's real and what isn't even more confusing. This is an example of __________?
What is changing/shifting Points of View?
400
This is one of the main themes addressed in the play Pygmalion. It focuses on the disparity between the "have"s" and the "have-not"s".
What is class struggle/inequality?
400
This is a literary technique in which a story is told within the context of another story.
What is Framing?
400
I am an Irish playwright, critic and controversialist. I became the leading dramatist of my generation, and in 1925 I was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. My works are best know for incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory.
Who is George Bernard Shaw?
400
an elaborate, intellectually ingenious metaphor that shows the poet's realm of knowledge; it may be brief or extended.
What is a metaphysical conceit (or simply conceit, for short)?
500
The Things They Carried considered to be a ___________, or a work of fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions.
what is a meta-fiction?
500
Like Pygmalion, I am a type of literature that uses humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
What is satire?
500
Mary Shelley was inspired by this Poet whose Rimes became the foundation upon which the Romantic Literary movement was built.
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
500
Born Eric Arthur Blair, I am an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. My work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
Who is George Orwell?
500
a short quotation or verse that precedes a poem (or any text) to set the tone, provide a setting, or give other context for the poem.
What is an epigram?
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