Terms
Latin term meaning, “In the middle of the action.”
What is in medias res?
He is the protagonist of 1984.
Who is Winston Smith?
The names of Hamlet’s college friends who were summoned to Denmark by King Claudius.
Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
A sonnet has this many lines.
What is 14?
Forest the Ghost says 1984 belongs to this subgenre, where the setting is a future world that is unjust and grim.
What is dystopian literature?
Term simply meaning 'the order of words.'
What is syntax?
This character romanced Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God with a game of checkers.
Who is Tea Cake?
Phrase Hamlet uses to describe his plan to act like a madman.
What is his antic disposition?
This is often called the “heartbeat meter” because it mimics the sound of the heart.
What is iambic pentameter?
Forest the Ghost says this is the term for a play performed within a play that analyzes the form of drama itself.
What is metatheater?
When the normal subject-verb-object (SVO) word order is rearranged for emphasis.
What is inversion?
She is the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
The antagonist in A Doll’s House who Nora borrowed money from.
Who is Krogstad?
Form of poetry that laments the death of a person, place, or idea.
What is an elegy?
Forest the Ghost says that in order for an essay to earn 3 pts in the evidence/commentary row, it must establish this.
What is a line of reasoning?
German word for a coming-of-age novel.
What is a bildungsroman?
Term for a citizen in 1984 who is NOT a party member.
What is a prole?
He says, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be” and “To thine own self be true”
Who is Polonius?
Mojave tribe poet whose book “When My Brother Was an Aztec” is widely celebrated
Who is Natalie Diaz?
Forest the Ghost says “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is a Harlem Renaissance novel. “Renaissance” is a French word that literally means this.
What is rebirth?
a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or poem, intended to suggest its theme
What is an epigraph?
Government department where the protagonist of 1984 worked.
What is the Ministry of Truth?
A Doll’s House is considered the very first drama of this literary movement.
What is realism?
Famous English poem that ends, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, —that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
What is 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'?
Forest the Ghost says both of the novels we studied together this year were mainly told from this POV.
What is third person?