BIG CITY LIFE
What city is the setting of Bowery Station, 3:15 AM?
New York City
What word is often used to describe the dark, rainful and creepy atmosphere?
Gloomy
Insomnia (unable to sleep)
This literary/poetic device is used especially in Haiku to let the reader sense the nature
Imagery
How can we explain why we cringe?
The ireconsilable gap
What literary term describes the time and place of a story?
Setting
The typical setting for a gothic horror
A remote ancient castle
What does "the bell jar" symbolize?
Isolation and mental illnesses
How do we seperate the lines and paragrpahs in a poem?
Verses and Stanzas
Ethos logos pathos
In Everyone Talked Loudly in Chinatown, what theme is central to the story?
Identity / cultural conflict / belonging.
In "The man who loved flowers" we here on the radio "a hammer murderer on the loose" which is the protagonist himself - What do we call this?
Foreshadowing
What type of literary device is used in the office when the contrast between the chaotic workers and the viewers perception contrasts?
Irony
What was the theme in "On turning Ten" by Billy Collins
Growing up
Dictionary definition and something we associate the word with
Denotation and Connotation
What atmosphere is often created in big city stories?
Loneliness / chaos / isolation
Is hamlet er tragedy or comedy?
Tragedy
How does "The killing joke" tell the reader about the different reasons for why the Joker goes mad?
By using flashbacks
Meduse poem line: “my bride’s breath soured, stank / in the grey bags of my lungs”
A metaphor
What is the structure of a Haiku
5-7-5
What does the city often symbolize in literature?
Opportunity and danger
Why do we crave horror (if we ask stephen king?)
To let out anticivilization emotions
Name Svendsens for categories of evil
Demonic - Instrumental - Idealistic - Stupid
What caracterizes a shakespearen sonnet?
14-line structure and uses iambic pentameter
Who wrote the decleration of independence and when?
Thomas Jefferson jule 4th 1776