She "saw her life as a great tree in leaf, with things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone."
Who is Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God.
100
This novel is the ultimate story of the "one that got away."
What is Old Man in the Sea.
100
This is what tragic heroes possess that shows excessive pride.
What is hubris.
100
This is a type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using the words like or as.
What is a simile.
100
This is the author of the Joy Luck Club.
Who is Amy Tan.
200
She lived through the death of her husband only to marry her son! (EEEEEWWWW!!)
Who is Jocasta
200
Marlow travels up this river in Africa after a renegade company man
What is The Congo
200
King Lear's faithful servant who he banishes.
Who is Kent.
200
Words such as ZAP! POW! and BOOM! describe this literary term.
What is onomatopoeia.
200
The blind prophet from both Oedipus Rex and Antigone.
Who is Tierisias.
300
She wrote about her not too buoyant main character: "But when she was there beside the sea, absolutely alone, she cast the unpleasant pricking garments from her, and for the first time in her life she stood naked in the open air."
Who is Kate Chopin
300
This regal figure promises justice for Oedipus in Sophocles's play, but gets his comeuppance in a later Sophocles play.
Who is Creon.
300
This occurs for the audience after they experience the downfall of the tragic hero and all its implications.
What is catharthis.
300
When an author creates a character completely different from another so that both are defined clearly by their differences you have this.
What is a foil.
300
This a type of poem consisting of thirty-six lines of any length divided into six sestets and a three-line concluding stanza called and ENVOY.
What is a Sestina.
400
This character's name in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching god tried to have an affair with Teacake and her name also rhymes with a candy car.
Who is Nunky
400
This is the name of the character who becomes unstuck in time in Vonnegut's Slaughter House Five.
Who is Billy Pilgrim.
400
The two daughter who praised King Lear to his face, but secretly talked poorly of him behind his back.
Who are Goneril and Regan.
400
This is a humorous imitation of another, usually serious, work.
What is a parody.
400
This is the last line of Slaughterhouse Five.
What is "Poo-tee-weet?"
500
This young lady's mother dies of a cerebral aneurysm in the opening chapter of the Joy Luck Club.
Who is Jing-Mei (June) Woo
500
This is the name of the crazy author in Vonnegut's novel.
Who is Kilgore Trout.
500
This type of mutilation occurred in both tragedies, King Lear, and Oedipus Rex.
What is a persons eyes getting gouged out.
500
"Shall I Compare thee to a summer's day?" is an example of this type of meter.
What is iambic pentameter.
500
This allows for two or more simultaneous interpretations of a word, phrase, action, or situation.