Short Fiction-
Unit 1
Unit 1
What was a main theme in Brave New World?
The use of technology to control society, freedom, individuality.
What is the basic measurement in poetry?
Foot
What does Hamlet Sr. want Hamlet to do?
Avenge his death, spare his mother.
What is the message in There Will Come Soft Rains?
Nature is more powerful and will outlast technology, technology won't stand against time
What were the circumstances when the book was written?
A bunch of writers gathered in Lake Geneva for a writing competition. Mary Shelley had the best and scariest story.
What did the Misfit do to the family in A Good Man is Hard to Find?
He killed all of them since the grandma knew his identity.
What is a poem with no particular rhyme scheme?
Free verse
Why does Hamlet not kill Claudius while he is praying alone?
He's afraid that he would go to heaven if he killed him while he's praying.
What is the irony in Rocking-Horse Winner?
Paul wishes for his mother to love him and becomes luckier, only for the whispers in the house to be louder.
What is a belief of the Romantics?
Knowledge is found through nature and emotion, not scientific advancement
What do we discover at the end of A Rose For Emily?
Her dead husband was lying on the bed and an ident in the other pillow next to him.
What is a sad or mournful poem?
Elegy
Who was the person left to tell Hamlet's story?
Horatio
What is the iceberg in Hills Like White Elephants?
The man is trying to convince the woman to get an abortion.
How are Captain Walton and Victor Frankenstein similar?
Both had big, ambitious goals, however, Victor convinced Walton not to pursue his.
What was the irony of the death in The Story of an Hour?
The lady died of a heart disease, not from a broken heart from her husband, but from the new freedom which she lost.
What is unstressed-unstressed-stressed?
Anapest
Why does Hamlet play on a recorder when talking to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
He knows they are playing him.
What does the meaning of the title, Interpreter of Maladies, relate to the story?
Mrs Das wanted the tour guide to interpret her own malady and her situation regarding one of the children not being Mr Das's child.
How does the creature relate to Paradise Lost?
The creature is like Adam: created by Victor
The creature is like Satan: punished and rejected
How was sight conveyed in Cathedral?
The friend couldn't see, but he could see a lot deeper than the husband could.
How many lines in a Shakespearean sonnet and what is the structure?
14 lines, 3 quatrains and a couplet
How is Fortinbras the middle ground of Hamlet and Laertes?
He is both neither hesitant nor too ambitious.
What was the main theme of the animals in Blue Lenses?
Each of the animals represented a person's true character.
How does John Locke's or Jean Jacques Rosseau's theory of personality development compare to the creature?
John Locke: nature vs nurture
Rosseau: stages of development