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The author of The Handmaid's Tale.
Who is Margaret Atwood?
A structural division in poetry.
What is a stanza?
The emotional quality of a passage or the perceived attitude of a speaker towards a thing or idea in the text.
What is TONE?
An example is: "I could probably manage to survive on a salary of two million dollars a year."
What is understatement or litote?
The character of Macduff serves as this to his nemesis Macbeth.
What is a dramatic foil?
This novel, published in 1937, is considered a work of regional literature, focusing on the people, culture, and dialect of Southern blacks.
What is Their Eyes Were Watching God?
A division of seven lines in a poem.
What is a sestet?
The author's choice of words based on their exact or connotative meaning for effect.
What is DICTION?
The line "Life is but a walking shadow" from Macbeth is an example of this literary device.
What is metaphor?
"The whole pageantry of the year was awake, tingling near the edge of the sea concerned with itself."
What is personification?
A possible theme for this work is that the unchecked pursuit of ambition can corrupt a person's mind and soul.
What is Macbeth?
In poetry, the repetition of vowel sounds in consecutive words: “which din dims the light.”
What is assonance?
Telegraphic sentences, monosyllabic words, and exclamatory statements all fall under this category.
What is SYNTAX?
In the saying "The pen is mightier than the sword," "pen" stands for thought and reason, while "sword" represents physical warfare.
What is metonymy?
"To say: 'I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all —'"
What is an allusion?
A theme of this work could be that compliance and conformity lead to oppression and violence.
What is The Handmaid's Tale?
The name of a poem that has 3 quatrains and ends with a rhyming couplet.
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
The sentence "Without a dream, without faith, without hope, there is nothing" is an example of this literary technique.
What is parallelism?
In George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984, the political party in power uses the slogan “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.”
What is paradox?
In Macbeth, Ross says that Norway's kind must pay Scotland "Ten thousand dollars to our general use," despite the fact that the dollar was not the monetary unit in use at the time the play is set.
What is anachronism?
Their Eyes Were Watching God, following the personal journey and growth of its protagonist, Janie Starks, could be considered this kind of novel, the German word for "education novel."
What is a bildungsroman?
When the poet addresses something or someone that cannot answer or is not present, something nonliving or inanimate.
What is apostrophe?
An elaborate and often extended metaphor that compares two very unlike things, as in John Donne's "Holy Sonnet 14," where God is compared to a conquering army.
What is a conceit?
The wicked stepmother, the dizzy blonde, and the absent-minded professor are examples of
What is a stock character
The use of words to create an unharmonious, discordant sound, as in “With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, / Agape they heard me call.”
What is cacophony?