Authors and Titles
The 1923 poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" was written by what American poet?
William Carlos Williams
This poetic device refers to splitting a sentence across multiple lines of verse without using punctuation.
Enjambment
Kazuo Ishiguro's "A Family Supper" has this kind of non-traditional ending, raising the stakes without a pay off.
Anti-climax
This literary style is named after it's author, and is known for its focus on the absurdism of bureaucracy.
Kafkaeseque
In Ernest Hemingway's short story, the woman at the train station says the nearby hills look like this, which gives the story it's title.
White Elephants
The 1954 poem by Philip Larkin, which examines the decline of religion in 20th century Britain, is titled what?
"Church Going"
This device, displayed prominently in Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," involves breaking the fourth wall, such as by speaking directly to the reader or a text acknowledging itself as fictional
Metaficiton
Octavia Butler's "Speech Sounds" is an example of this sub-genre of science/speculative fiction
Post-apocalyptic
This artistic movement was based on the lives of shepherds, and focuses on the beauty and joy of simple rural life
Pastoralism
They owe debts to Gregor's employer
Name the author/poet who wrote the following lines:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Symbols and symbolism
In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," Gilman tries to convey the harm and horror of the rest cure by employing various themes and aesthetics of what literary genre?
Gothic
What artistic movement inspired the poem "The Red Wheelbarrow"?
Imagism
W. H. Auden's poem "Musée des Beaux Arts" alludes to what Greek myth?
The fall of Icarus
The 1966 poem "Digging" was written by what Irish poet?
Seamus Heaney
Imagery is the evocation of what sense(s) through literary description?
All senses
This philosophy is centred around a desire to transcend human limits and the human body entirely, hoping to become something greater through technological means.
Transhumanism
This late 18th and early 19th century movement is defined by its departure from rationalism and it's focus on intensity, emotion, and self-expression.
Romanticism
In Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's story "Big Water," what is the name the narrator gives to Lake Ontario?
Niibish (meaning "Big Water")
John Keat's 1819 poem, which reflects on the nature of art, is titled what?
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
What is Iambic Pentameter?
This term refers to a work of art that references or describes a real, specific work of art.
Ekphrasis
Vincent Miller's "The Man Plant" is meant to be a satire of what philosophy/movement?
Experimental science and the scientific method
What is the name of the son/protagonist in Kazuo Ishigruo's "A Family Supper"?
He is unnamed