Grendel
Although Grendel is the protagonist, he can be classified as this character archetype
What is an anti-hero?
This is Hamlet's closest friend, his only confidant, and one of the play's few survivors
Who is Horatio?
Why is Justine Moritz a maid for the Frankenstein family?
Her mother has passed away and her aunt is cruel, pushing her out of the home to find work.
This term refers to a character who sometimes contradicts themselves while narrating
What is an unreliable narrator?
A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement
What is a hyperbole?
The story "Grendel" is derived from this Anglo-Saxon epic written by an unknown poet
What is Beowulf?
Hamlet devises this plan to determine whether his uncle is guilty.
What is a play-within-the-play?
This narrator is the first that the reader encounters in the novel
Who is Robert Walton?
This is the fictional town where the Bundren family is going to bury Addie
What is Jefferson?
A character and/or story elements that symbolically represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning
What is an allegory?
The dragon gives Grendel this specific advice, which can be interpreted as "find what you love and enjoy it."
What is, "My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it."
This is the term used to refer to extended speeches in Shakespearean drama, such as the famous, "To be, or not to be, that is the question."
What is a soliloquy?
How does Victor Frankenstein bring about his own demise?
By defying the laws of nature and refusing his paternal duties.
This term refers to a repetition of a phrase within a sentence
What is anaphora?
A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule.
This philosophical concept embodies the essence of Grendel's final lines: "Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all."
What is nihilism?
This character is completely innocent, and yet they do not survive the play
Who is Ophelia?
This is the name for the unusual structure of the novel
What is a frame story?
This is the unusual style of the prose throughout the novel
What is stream of consciousness?
A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole, or, occasionally, the whole is used to represent a part.
What is a synecdoche?
What is one of the major themes that John Gardner explores in the novel "Grendel"?
Answers will vary. Themes include art as falsehood, the power of language, isolation, morality of society, and heroism.
Answers may vary. Responses can include madness, revenge, religion, mortality...
These are the major themes in Frankenstein
Answers may vary. Responses can include the quest for knowledge, forbidden knowledge, morality, healing power of nature...
These are the major themes in As I Lay Dying
An object, animal, phrase, or another thing loosely associated with a character, setting, or event.
What is a leit-motif?