A Streetcar Named Desire
Buff, handsome, aggressive and violent head of the household, this main character was famously played by Marlon Brando in the film adaptation of the book
Stanley Kowalski
A Gothic castle, known for it's lavish furnishings, empty rooms, absent owner, friendly housekeeper Ms. Fairfax, and a creepy laugh.
Thornfield
Tsichtinako is the Acoma name for this figure who plays an important role in the creation story of the Laguna Pueblo tribe
Though Woman / Thinking Woman
the place where Paul D symbolically keeps all of his emotions
red tin box
this poetic structure, made famous by The Bard, contains 14 lines and ends with a rhymed couplet called a "volta"
sonnet
"To Be or Not To Be"
this character likes to hide in the shadows of shaded lamps, take a lot of baths, and doesn't want realism but magic!
Blanche DuBois
Jane's narration frequently employs this literary move; "Reader, I married him."
Direct Address
OR
Breaking the Fourth Wall
OR
Metareference
the main character and author Leslie Marmon Silko share this mixed cultural heritage
Laguna Pueblo and white
oh Bluestone Road, this house is haunted by the ghost of Sethe's dead baby
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a TYPE of METric LINE in WHICH unSTRESSED
is FOLlowed BY a STRESSED in FIVE times TWO.
iambic pentameter
Hamlet employs this Shakespearean meta-device to attempt to trick Claudius into admitting his guilt
play-within-a-play
a favorite activity of the men in the play, according to Mitch should never be played in a house with women
Poker
This term, named after a Lord by the same name, is the literary archetype for Rochester's moody, mysterious, manipulative and alluring kind of hero
Byronic Hero
the location of the first atomic bomb test in New Mexico, about 100 miles from the main character's home
Trinity Site
named for the white woman who helps Sethe give birth to her, this character is Beloved's sister
Denver
The continuation of a sentence
without a pause beyond
the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
enjambment
don't get caught behind the curtain while in Gertrude's room like this unfortunate Shakespearean character, who is murdered by the title character
Polonius
"Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light" is a description of her
Blanche
You would probably know her by her laugh, or her tendency to set fires in the middle of the night; Jane knows her as the reason her first wedding was ruined
Bertha Mason
during this war, the main character lost his brother when they were forced to march through the jungles of Japan
this evil man gave Sethe her "tree" and is the leader of the "four horsemen" that arrive to reclaim Sethe and her children
schoolteacher
the literary device found in these lines from Elizabeth Bishop's poem, "Sestina":
It's time for tea now; but the child
is watching the teakettle's small hard tears
dance like mad on the hot black stove,
the way the rain must dance on the house.
personification
Marcellus asks this friend of Hamlet "to watch the minutes of this night, that if again this apparition come, he may...speak to it"
Horatio
Blanche hears this when remembering the trauma of her past
Varsouvania Polka
the literary term for the genre of Jane Eyre, belonging to a kind of text that focuses on the moral and ethical development of a character from a child to an adult throughout the course of the story
Coming of Age
OR
Bildungsroman
the name of the woman who is part of the main character's ceremony; she has "ocher eyes" and wears traditional clothing, and helps him heal
Ts'eh
this is the real-life law that was enacted in 1850 and served as the premise for the story of Beloved
The Fugitive Slave Act
A group of 17th-century poets whose works are marked by philosophical exploration, colloquial diction, ingenious conceits, irony, and metrically flexible lines. Topics of interest often included love, religion, and morality, which the they considered through unusual comparisons, frequently employing unexpected similes and metaphors in displays of wit. Donne is part of this group.
Metaphysical Poets
Marcellus quips this famous line when he suspects that there may be elements that are amiss in his native land
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"