Literary Devices
Two words that begin with the same consonant sound
What is alliteration?
The author of Mrs. Dalloway
This poem by Sylvia Plath concerns a cosmetic surgery
This novel by Sylvia Plath concerns the narrator Esther Greenwood's descent into depression and suicidal ideation
What is The Bell Jar?
Dr. Padusniak's preferred kind of shirt in the colder months of the year
What is a turtleneck?
An address to a someone absent, an inanimate object, or an abstract concept
What is apostrophe?
The author of Fantomina
Who is Eliza Haywood?
The three types of sonnet
What is Petrarchan, Shakespearean, and Spenserian?
This Shakespearean comedy follows Prospero, his daughter Miranda, and their servants Ariel and Caliban on an otherwise deserted island
What is The Tempest?
Dr. Padusniak can speak this non-English language more-or-less fluently?
What is German?
What is anaphora?
The author of Antigone
Sophocles
The Italian term for a shift in tone or mood between stanzas (often in a sonnet)
What is a volta?
This tragedy by Euripides has the titular character murder her own children before escaping in a chariot provided by the sun god
What is Medea?
Dr. Padusniak had this many dogs and this many cats at the beginning of the school year
What is two dogs and two cats?
What is deus ex machina?
The author of Wuthering Heights
Who is Emily Brontë?
The literary term for lines of poetry connected without end punctuation such as a period or semi-colon
What is enjambment?
The name for a shortened version of a novel
What is a novella?
The name of the jazz-bossa nova singer Dr. Padusniak has played throughout the year
Who is Mei Semones?
A literary description of architecture, a painting, or other scene
What is ekphrasis?
The author of many lais, including Bisclavret, or The Werewolf
Marie de France
The two most dominant types of metrical foot in English speech, writing, and poetry
What are iambic and trochaic?
What is catharsis?
The period of history and literature Dr. Padusniak studied to earn his PhD
What is the middle ages?