"Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak."
Who is Rosalind in "As You Like It"?
100
Fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions and traditional narrative techniques.
What is "Metafiction"
100
This person is the unknown author of "Beowulf"
Who is the "scop"
100
This character is a hard working garbage recycler who finds himself wrongly accused of murder.
Who is Abdul?
100
Oedipus the King.
What is Tragedy?
200
"Oh! Lord, I am sure your mother can spare you very well and I do beg you will favour me with your company, for I've quite set my heart upon it."
Who is Mrs. Jennings in _Sense and Sensibility_?
200
Five pairs of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables. Shakespeare used this style when writing verse.
What is Iambic Pentameter.
200
This author lived in the 16-17th centuries and is credited with writing 38 plays and 154 sonnets.
Who is William Shakespeare?
200
This woman escapes her life under a totalitarian dictatorship thanks to the sacrifice of her "second" husband.
Who is Sun Moon?
200
As You Like It
What is Comedy?
300
"He took his vorpal sword in hand; /Long time the manxome foe he sought—/ So rested he by the Tumtum tree / And stood awhile in thought."
Who is, the Speaker in "Jabberwocky"
300
A poem concerned with the enjoyment of the pleasures of the moment without concern for the future
What is Carpe Diem.
300
This author and theologian had a talent for writing poetry that took the physical shape of his subject on the page.
Who is George Herbert?
300
What is the name of "Dear Leader"?
Who is Kim Jung Il.
300
Jabberwocky?
What is "mock" Heroic
400
"Well, friend Unferth, you have had your say / about Breca and me. But it was mostly beer / that was doing the talking."
Who is Beowulf in "Beowulf."
400
This term refers to works that are not written in 'verse' (poetry) such as novels or Shakespeare's "lower born" characters.
What is prose.
400
This author from our course is Canadian, and she is known for writing futuristic novels with dystopian themes.
Who is Margaret Atwood.
400
This character has more "sensibility" than "sense".
Who is Marianne?
400
Sense and Sensibility
What is Comedy?
500
"I, like an usurp'd town to another due,/Labor to admit you, but oh, to no end;/Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,/But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue."
The Speaker in John Donne's "Batter My Heart."
500
This term refers to the moment that occurs when a situation seems to developing in one direction, then suddenly goes in the completely opposite direction.
What is reversal?
500
When he got older, this poet and theologian changed his ways - From a womanizing writer of metaphysical poetry to becoming the pious dean of St. Paul's Cathedral.
Who is John Donne?
500
This character laments that women spend too much time concerned about their looks when they should spend more time cultivating their personalities. (after she lends the Baron a pair of scissors)