Literary History
Literary movement in the early 1800's that prioritizes subjectivity, nature, and emotion.
British author who wrote Frankenstein when she was just nineteen
Mary Shelley
"His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips."
Imagery or juxtaposition
This character suffers a wide misconception of his name being the name of his creator.
Frankenstein's monster OR creature
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
"Ozymandias," Percy Shelley, poem
This war is known as the first "modern" war, where instruments of destruction such as nerve gas, trench warfare, tanks, flamethrowers, and landmines were used.
World War I
This Southern Gothic author attended the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1945.
Flannery O'Connor
"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me Man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?"
Rhetorical question
This character is the subject of Krystal Valladares's poem, where she is depicted as a bride slain by her lover.
Medusa
Name one historical event that contributed to the movement of Romanticism
Industrial revolution, American/French Revolution, invention of modern science, etc.
This author is known for writing fantastical sci-fi novels. Some of her works include The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea fantasy series loosely adapted by the Japanese cinema house Studio Ghibli.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Name that rhyme scheme:
"But I am carried back against
My will into a childhood where
Autumn is bonfires, marbles, smoke;
I lean against my window fenced
From evocations in the air.
When I said Autumn, Autumn broke."
(Song at the Beginning of Autumn by Elizabeth Jennings)
ABC/ABC rhyme
This mythological figure is the subject of Lord Byron's poem. He is eternally tortured for giving fire to humans, where he is chained to a cliff while vultures rip out his organs.
Prometheus
"... but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming," poem
World War II/Post war government research grants
Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1932, this author is known for exploring dark subject matters in her poems such as suicide, death, abuse, and family conflict.
Sylvia Plath
This literary device has the Greek words for "sharp" and "dull" in it, and refers to a contradictory phrase
Oxymoron
This morally-gray serial killer is the antagonist in "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
The Misfit
"Science fiction is often described, and even defined, as extrapolative. The science fiction writer is supposed to take a trend or phenomenon of the here-and-now, purify and intensify it for dramatic effect, and extend it into the future."
Ursula K. Le Guin, introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness, nonfiction
Name one historical event that contributed to Joan Didion's breakdown in "The White Album"
The moon landing, Civil Rights movement, Vietnam War protests, rock music, serial killers, etc.
This Modernist author is known for poetry such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the 5-part epic poem "The Waste Land." He often uses fragmented imagery and alienation.
T.S. Eliot
This poetic device refers to words at the end of lines that have the same vowel sound, but not the same end sound. Example: wed and death
Imperfect rhyme OR slant rhyme
This eponymous character is the main character of Shelley Jackson's experimental electronic novel, where a fictional Mary Shelley remakes Frankenstein's monster's bride.
Patchwork Girl
"Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", poem