A situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory, but on inspection turns out to be true, or at least makes sense.
What is a paradox?
100
The repetition of consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
100
The author of 1984 and Animal Farm.
Who is George Orwell?
100
Write about ___________ and ____________ when the prompt asks you about "the meaning of the work as a whole."
What is theme and tone?
100
The quality of being pleasing to the ear, esp. through a harmonious combination of words.
What is euphony?
200
A type of irony, often bitter, whose purpose is to injure or hurt.
What is sarcasm?
200
The repetition of vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
200
The author of Catcher in the Rye.
Who is J.D. Salinger?
200
The author's word choice.
What is diction?
200
A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.
What is cacophony?
300
A form of metaphor which substitutes a part for the whole.
What is synecdoche?
300
The running-on of one line of poetry into another.
What is enjambment?
300
The author of The Crucible and Death of a Salesman.
Who is Arthur Miller?
300
An author's style = _________________, _________________, and _______________.
What is diction, syntax, and tone?
300
Give a thesis for the following prompt: Novels and plays often include scenes of weddings, funerals, parties, and other social occasions. Such scenes may reveal the values of the characters and the society in which they live. Select a novel or play that includes such a scene and, in a focused essay, discuss the contribution the scene makes to the meaning of the work as a whole.
Give thesis.
400
The opposite of hyperbole. It's the kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is.
What is understatement?
400
A line of ten syllables using the pattern of unstressed/stressed.
What is iambic pentameter?
400
The author of The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
400
TPFASTT is a way to analyze poetry. TPFASTT stands for:
What are title, paraphrase, figurative devices, attitude (tone), shifts, title, and theme?
400
Give a thesis for: Novels and plays often depict characters caught between colliding cultures -- national, regional, ethnic, religious, institutional. Such collisions can call a character’s sense of identity into question. Select a novel or play in which a character responds to such a cultural collision. Then write a well-organized essay in which you describe the character’s response and explain its relevance to the work as a whole.
Thesis:
500
When Shakespeare writes "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears," in Julius Cesar, he is using this literary device.
What is metonymy?
500
A poem consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg.
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
500
Spell the name of the author of Hamlet.
Who is Shakespeare?
500
Sentence length, grammar, and sentence patterns are all ways to analyze this.
What is an author's syntax?
500
Write a thesis for: Critic Roland Barthes has said, “Literature is the question minus the answer.” Choose a novel, or play, and, considering Barthes’ observation, write an essay in which you analyze a central question the work raises and the extent to which it offers answers. Explain how the author’s treatment of this question affects your understanding of the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary.