Vocabulary
Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion.
What is obstinate?
A character in a work who does not change.
What is a static character?
The career that Beneatha wants to pursue.
What is a medical doctor?
The type of pet Nick had for a few days before it ran away.
What is a dog?
The time period in Irish history that provides the background, or enveloping action, for “Everything in this Country Must.”
What are The Troubles?
No longer existing or functioning.
What is defunct?
An image, object, character, situation, theme, even a word that the writer uses repeatedly throughout a work.
What is a motif?
The breakfast Ruth serves Walter in scene one, despite his complaints.
What are scrambled eggs?
The cardinal virtue Nick suspects of himself.
What is honesty?
The epiphany that Josh Michaels has in “The Lifeguard.”
What is that Mrs. Lovenheim doesn’t even know who he is?
A trace of something that is now vanished or lost.
What is a vestige?
A disruption to the equilibrium of the story that introduces the conflict.
What is a complication?
The names of both of Benatha’s “love interests” in the play.
What are George Murchison and Joseph Asagai?
The two physical “proofs” Gatsby initially shows Nick of his background.
What is the medal from Montenegro and the photo from Oxford?
The type of narration utilized in “The Free Radio.”
What is first-person observer?
A state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts; a daydream.
What is a reverie?
A story in which all the characters participate in a web of symbolism; they have a one-to-one correspondence with religious, political, or moral ideas they represent in a deeper layer of symbolism.
What is an allegory?
The name of the neighborhood where the Youngers’ new house is located.
What is Clybourne Park?
The name of George Wilson’s neighbor who runs a coffee joint.
What is Michaelis?
The type of fish that serves as a symbol in “A Family Supper.”
What is fugu?
Apparently attractive but in reality having no value or integrity.
What is meretricious?
When the setting alludes to events in the world beyond the little circuit of the characters; the drama of the protagonist’s story is surrounded by a larger drama involving all society.
What is an enveloping action?
Mama’s full name.
What is Lena Younger?
Name at least two activities from Gatsby’s schedule from when he was a boy that his dad shows Nick.
What are rise from bed; dumbbell exercise and wall-scaling; study electricity; work; baseball and sports; practice elocution, poise and how to attain it; study needed inventions?
The first sentence of “The Old Man Slave and the Mastiff.”
What is “The mastiff was a monster”?