Philosophies
Authors and Themes
First Words
Famous Characters
Literary Terms
100
Enlightenment
What is the philosophical belief that it is important to describe the actual, immediate, the here and now, and the specific action?
100
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is the author of a a book that explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age?
100
The Story of an Hour
Which short story begins "Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death"?
100
Harrison Bergeron
Which character can lift 700 pounds, escape a maximum security prison, dance professional level ballet, and defy gravity?
100
theme
What is the message of a piece of literature?
200
Romanticism
What is the movement emphasizing emotion and imagination, rather than logic and scientific thought?
200
Arthur Miller
Who wrote the dramatized story of the Salem witch trials of 1692 as an allegory of McCarthyism, called "The Crucible"?
200
The Unknown Citizen
Which poem begins: "(To JS/07 M 378 / This Marble Monument /Is Erected by the State)"?
200
Daisy Buchanan
Which character has a voice that is "full of money"?
200
Dramatic Irony
What is it called when the audience knows that what a character EXPECTS and what is true are different?
300
Naturalism
What is the movement that attempts to show how natural forces such as heredity and environment control people?
300
Mark Twain
Who is the author of the novel depicting a young narrator struggling to cope with his growing friendship to an outsider despite the prejudices of his Southern, pre-Civil War upbringing?
300
The Veldt
Which short story begins: "George, I wish you'd look at the nursery." "What's wrong with it?"
300
Mrs. Mallard
Which character upon realizing that someone close to her has died, realizes that suddenly allows her to be "free, free, free"?
300
style
What is the name for the effect created by the types of sentences, words, and plots chosen by an author?
400
Modernism
What is the philosophy that attempted to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of their time (abstact, rule-breaking art)?
400
Robert Frost
Who is the American poet who wrote these lines: “These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep”?
400
anyone lived in a pretty how town
What poem begins: "anyone lived in a pretty how town / (with up so floating many bells down)"?
400
Thomas Putnam
Which character lies, tricks a minister, convinces his young daughter to accuse others of witchcraft, and pretends that he is a good and upright member of his community?
400
Stream of Consciousness
What technique is it that refers to the flow of thoughts in the conscious mind?
500
Postmodernism
What is the Postwar movement skeptical of absolutes and embracing diversity, irony, and word play?
500
Kurt Vonnegut
Whose short story featured a character who is handicapped because his mediocrity-worshipping society cannot handle his greatness?
500
The Devil and Tom Walker
Whose Romanticism era short story begins: "A few miles from Boston, in Massachusetts, there is a deep inlet winding several miles into the interior of the country from Charles Bay, and terminating in a thickly wooded swamp, or morass. On one side of this inlet is a beautiful dark grove"?
500
Peyton Farqhar
Which character is an upstanding gentleman, who nonetheless decides to commit an act of terrorism, and faces the death penalty for it?
500
tone
What literary device encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work?
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