Authors and Artists
I created the world’s most famous fictional detective.
Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
The adaptive reason leaves change their colors according to Diane Ackerman.
What is nothing?
(She says there is none)
I said this: "That is not the man! My uncle, that is not the man!"
Who is Blanche?
This term means "a recurring type or category."
What is a "genre"?
This point on the diagram introduces the characters, setting, and situation of the story.
What is the "exposition"?
I am a self-taught artist who inspires one of the world’s most famous painters.
Who is Henri Rousseau?
The words spoken but not meant in “Miserable Merry Christmas.”
What is, “If I can’t have a pony, give me nothing, nothing”?
I said this: "I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket….That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need."
Sherlock Holmes
This genre of essay has an “impersonal but authoritative voice and a serious tone”?
What is a "formal essay"?
The major turning point for the main character.
I also wrote Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The psychological principle in “How to Get Things Done” is...
What is “Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment”?
My last words were: "Oh, my God! Helen! It was the band! The speckled band!"
Julia Stoner
This is the technical term for when the audience knows something that the main character does not.
What is "dramatic irony"?
This point on the diagram occurs between the inciting incident and the crisis.
What is the "rising action"?
Who is Andrew Wyeth?
The structure that appears repeatedly in the syntactically parallel topic sentences of “An Old Fashioned Iowa Christmas" is...
What is, “There are no such…anymore”?
I often say this: "Nothing Puzzles God"
Who is Jonathan Iwegbu?
The three classic genres of literature.
What are drama, poetry, prose?
What is Denis entering the Sire's house?
I was paralyzed in a car accident, but I won the Man Booker Award in 2007
Who is Chinua Achebe?
The biblical figures alluded to in “Why the Leaves Turn Color in the Fall.”
Who are Adam and Eve?
I said this: "I have heard nothing"
Denis
These are the three key elements of an Impossible Crime mystery.
What are: a sealed or inaccessible environment, a limited pool of suspects, and a rational solution?
This event marks the beginning of the denouement in “Civil Peace.”
What is whenJonathan gives the egg-rasher to the thieves?