A literary device where the author creates a character whose primary purpose is to create a contrast to another character by laying emphasis or drawing attention to the latter’s traits and characteristics through the former’s obviously contradictory ones.
What is a foil?
100
Grand Isle
What is The Awakening?
100
This is the first character to die in Wuthering Heights.
Who is Mrs. Earnshaw?
100
Both of these texts discuss the impact of the inferior treatment of women during the end of the 19th century.
What are The Awakening and A Doll's House?
100
A statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true
What is paradox?
200
The process of using conjunctions or connecting words frequently in a sentence, placed very close to one another, as opposed to the usual norm of using them sparsely, only where they are technically needed.
What is polysyndeton?
200
A mental hospital... somewhere?
What is Catcher in the Rye?
200
RIP last character to die
Who is Heathcliff?
200
Poor Heathcliff is both victim and proponent of this theme in Wuthering Heights.
What is the (often disparaging) relationship between social classes?
200
Using a part of something to refer to the whole
What is synechdoche?
300
The depiction of a strong connection, link or bond between the different senses
What is synesthesia?
300
This symbolizes King Lear's insanity and loss of control.
What is the storm?
300
The kind of countryside surrounding WH and TC
What is moorland?
300
Grow up, already!
What is the "coming of age" theme in Catcher in the Rye?
300
Understatement (at its finest)
What is litotes?
400
A reference to a concept, a person or an object that has served as a prototype of its kind and is the original idea that has come to be used over and over again.
What is an archetype?
400
The common characteristics that link the moors to Catherine and Heathcliff's relationship
What are "wild" and "unpredictable"?
400
Ding, dong; ding dong! This is the day that Hareton and Catherine plan to marry.
What is New Years Day?
400
Can I see who I am? These are two universal ideas in Invisible Man
What is "blindness" and "personality identity?"
400
The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt
What is a euphemism?
500
The fatal flaw in many tragedies
What is hubris?
500
This allows the set to function as an extended metaphor of the Nora's entrapment in her "Doll House"
What a one room setting?
500
The person who raises Hareton during his infancy.
Who is Nelly?
500
Oh, sweet, Zeus: this theme is discussed in both Antigone and Oedipus Rex.
What is "fate vs. free will"?
500
The process of using conjunctions or connecting words The use of phrases and words that are noted for possessing an extensive degree of notable loveliness or melody in the sound they create