Honored Students, this it's called when one addresses one who is not present (well, right now, anyway, as I'm writing this silly prompt).
What is apostrophe?
100
One who shows another's character by contrast (Linton vs. Heathcliff or Linton Heathcliff and Hareton Earnshaw).
What is a foil?
100
The portrait on the wall is in the will (and hides a secret).
What is The House of the Seven Gables?
100
He said, "Wherever they's kids starvin', I'll be there."
Who is Tom Joad?
100
She made him kill a king.
Who is Lady Macbeth?
200
This is what one utilizes to avoid saying something harsh (if you don't know it, you are literarily challenged).
What is euphemism?
200
The details in a great work should suggest this, even if it is implicit rather than explicit.
What is theme?
200
Am I crazy or are those little devils up to something?
What is The Turn of the Screw?
200
He said, "It kills me"--a lot.
Who is Holden Caulfield?
200
Told not to, she did it anyway because she was obeying a higher law.
Who is Antigone?
300
Sometimes inverted, periodic, or loose, this organization of words in the verbal articulation of an idea might an alteration in effect engender.
What is syntax?
300
Like Regency England in Pride and Prejudice or Colonial Boston in The Scarlet Letter.
What is setting?
300
The shadows hold hands as they return from the "colored" carnival.
What is Beloved?
300
This narrator concluded, "Suffering . . . had given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be" before he concluded, "I saw no shadow of another parting."
Who is Pip?
300
He could have been a physician (or a theologian or a lawyer), but he preferred necromancy.
Who is Dr. Faustus?
400
You don't mean what you say.
What is literary irony?
400
Like Catherine Linton Heathcliff and Hareton Earnshaw (and Othello and Pip) these undergo a change in the course of the plot.
What are dynamic characters?
400
The American Dream is corrupted, right down to the Great American Pastime.
What is The Great Gatsby?
400
Who tells his wife he needs a handkerchief?
Who is Othello?
400
They lashed him to a mast, not as punishment, but as protection.
Who is Odysseus?
500
The audience knows; the actors don't.
What is dramatic irony?
500
This is the attitude of a writer to his subject.
What is irony?
500
Luck on Wall Street? It's as simple as ABC.
What is The Sirens of Titan?
500
Who says, "I am Heathcliff." (No, not Heathcliff.)
What is Catherine Earnshaw?
500
He brought a haughty Alice low by means of mesmerism--then felt bad about it.