This type of fiction, as championed by Margaret Atwood, delves into "what could be" in the future.
What is speculative fiction?
100
The name of the city where Victor Frankenstein lives.
What is Ingolstadt?
100
The author of "Bartleby, the Scrivener."
Who is Herman Melville?
100
Who said: "A guiltless death I die."
Who is Desdemona?
200
The name of the villain in Othello.
Who is Iago?
200
This type of writing is actually about writing itself: the words, phrases, process, and more.
What is metafiction?
200
In the 1818 Edition, the creature frames Justine by doing this.
What is placing William's locket on her person as she passes by?
200
The author of "My Last Duchess"?
Who is Robert Browning?
200
Which poet wrote these lines: "What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families / shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the / avocados, babies in the tomatoes!"
Who is Allen Ginsberg?
300
A young and handsome lieutenant under Othello's command who becomes one of Iago's victims.
Who is Cassio?
300
This word refers to a fictional place where everything is as bad as possible. It is also known as the opposite of utopia.
What is dystopia?
300
The date that Frankenstein was published for the second time.
What is 1831?
300
The author of Trifles.
Who is Susan Glaspell?
300
This character said, "I have a pretty present for my Victor--tomorrow he shall have it."
Who is Victor Frankenstein's mother?
400
The method by which Othello kills Desdemona.
What is suffocation?
400
This text is a quotation or phrase that appears at the beginning of a novel. It suggests themes or context for the words that follow.
What is an epigraph?
400
The character through which the reader gets the frame narrative of Frankenstein.
Who is Captain Walton?
400
The author of the phrase, "Ask not for whom the bell tolls ... the bell tolls for thee."
Who is John Donne?
400
In which short story does the main character say: "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."
What is "Araby"?
500
This character says, "Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see. /
She hath deceived her father and may thee." (1.3)
Who is Brabantio (Desdemona's father)?
500
This term refers to the way that certain hierarchical binaries intersect to create a sense of identity. It can be used to assess privilege and oppression.
What is intersectionality?
500
One of three books that the creature reads as part of his initial education.
What is either: Sorrows of Werter by Goethe, Plutarch's Lives of Ancient Greeks and Romans by Plutarch, or Paradise Lost by John Milton.
500
The author of "Anecdote of the Jar"
Who is Wallace Stevens?
500
William Carlos Williams wrote which poem that contains the following lines:
"sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings’ wax
unsignificantly
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed"