Key Characters
Literary Luminations
Plot Particulars
Themes and Theses
Prompts of the Past
100

free-spirited mid-20s women who opposes the party through her love affair with Winston

Who is Julia

100

The constant irritant on Winston's leg; used as a symbol to represent his toil of emotions towards the Party

What is Winston's varicose ulcer

100

What was the name of the tavern where TIM drove Norton to when he became ill?

What is the golden day 

100

What motif did the "lifting the veil" statue represent? 

What is the veil reveals revealing (education) and hierarchy (lowering)

100

2019 Prompt: In what way(s) does the unnamed narrator of Invisible Man hold an “ideal view of the world”?

-TIM is naive about other’s intentions
-He fails to admit that racial hierarchy exist or to see its effects.

200

He let Nora borrow money to afford her trip to Italy.

Who is Krogstad

200

This object carried by the Invisible Man contains all his psychological baggage and all the physical possessions from his past exiles.

What is TIM's Briefcase

200

Tim wakes up in the company hospital after what event at the paint factory?

What is Boiler explosion

200

What large themes are shown in the Dolls House

What are women should have more of a place in society and not be held down by societal standards and expectations

200

Select a novel, play, or epic in which a character experiences such a rift and becomes cut off from "home", whether that home is the characters birthplace, family, homeland, or other special place. Then write an essay in which you analize how the character's experience with exile is both alienating and enriching, and how this experience illuminates the meaning of the work as a while. (King Lear) 

- Lear first exiles his own daughter Cordelia, and yet he himself is exiled entirely in the open country by his daughters and is forced to reevaluate the way he see's his daughters love and their love for him.

300

The man who caused TIM to be kicked out of his college

Who is Norton

300

Name this motif that involves Lear's idea of respect for one's parents and loyalty to one's king, be important regardless of circumstance. 

What is Nature's role in the play

300

Reagan and Goneril fought over this man

Who is Edmund (he was playing them both to get what he wanted; keeping his options open)

300

What are the 3 general topics king lear addresses

What is relationship, status, religion and family

300

Choose a novel or play in which a character deceives others. Then, in a well written essay, analyze the motives for that characters deception and discuss how the deception contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. (Doll's House)

-Nora deceives her husband about the true reason for the trip to Italy, as well as the financial undertaking she is in, and how the debt has grown out of control.

400

Nora's foil character. She starts off with no familial obligations and ends with Krogstad. Opposite of Nora.

Who is Mrs. Linde

400

What is Tod Clifton doing on the street after he leaves the brotherhood that upsets TIM?

What is Clifton is selling Sambo dolls which upsets TIM as this perpetuates racist stereotypes

400

What did Nora do to distract Torvald from opening his mail?

What is practices her tarantella

400

What types of conflicts are in 1984?

What is Man vs Society

400

Many works of literature feature characters who accept or reject a hierarchal structure. This hierarchy may be social, economic, political, or familial, or it may apply to some other kind of structure.
Choose a work of fiction in which a character responds to a hierarchy in some significant way.

Name a hierarchal structure in IM  

- the Brotherhood

- American Society 

- the factory 

500

This president of the college TIM gets kicked out of, of which TIM meets in his office and learns a hard truth about how he maintains his status and power

Who is Bledsoe

500

King Lear and Gloucester both lack insight into the true intentions of their children and cannot really "see" the other characters around them. This is seen through the motif of...

What is blindness

500

Nora closes the (blank) when she leaves Torvald at the end of the book

What is the door

500

In Invisible Man, how does TIM's view of invisibility change throughout the book?

What is At the beginning TIM believes invisibility can bring safety and allow him to take down the racial hierarchy from within. At the end, TIM wants to come out of hibernation and become visible to make an impact in society.

500

What is the name of the narrator of invisible man? 

Gotcha! Trick question! 

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