This is the character from Macbeth who provides comic relief after the murder of King Duncan.
Who is the drunken Porter?
100
Swift used understatement, shock value, and exaggeration when writing this type of literature.
What is satire?
100
Wordsworth's "The World is Too Much with Us" reflects the central Romantic value that man needs to appreciate ___ more.
What is nature?
100
The Victorian era of society in England was marked by strict adherence to ___.
What is rules/manners/propriety/being ladylike and gentlemanly/etc.
100
In "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," Gray is using this literary device when he speaks of "Honor's voice" and "Flattery's" ability to soothe.
What is personification?
200
Macbeth realizes that the witches have tricked him by showing him three of these.
What are apparitions?
200
This word would best describe the tone of Johnson's "Letter to Lord Chesterfield."
What is sarcastic?
200
Burns' "To a Mouse" is written in a Scottish ____ to show respect for the common man.
What is dialect?
200
In Sassoon's "Dreamers," the soldiers dream about this on the battlefield.
What is home and normal life (baseball, going to work).
200
"The Demon Lover," although set during WWII, is not necessarily a story about war. The protagonist most likely suffers from this illness, which causes her to feel paranoid.
What is PTSD? (post traumatic stress disorder)
300
Macbeth hallucinates this object leading him to Duncan's room the night of the murder.
What is a daggar?
300
The two authors of "The Spectator," the first periodical essay.
who are Addison and Steele?
300
The Ancient Mariner is cursed because of this action.
What is shooting (or killing) the albatross?
300
In "A Room of One's Own," Woolf creates a fictional tale about the sister of this literary figure.
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
In Bowen's "The Demon Lover," the story of her former fiance in WWI is told through this narrative structure.
What is flashback?
400
This is the speaker of the following quote: "But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail".
Who is Lady Macbeth?
400
In "A Modest Proposal," Swift's real message is that a solution must be found to improve ____ in Ireland.
What is the economy? (Or help for the poor, quality of life for the poor, etc)
400
Complete the quote from the poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn:"
"Beauty is ____, ____ beauty-- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
Hint-- it's the same word!
What is truth?
400
Owen's "Ducle et Decorum Est," conveys this theme about war.
What is that war is futile, horrific, etc.? (It is NOT sweet and honorable to die for one's country!)
400
Since there is so much deception in "Macbeth," there are many times when the audience knows something the characters do not. This is an example of this type of irony.
What is dramatic irony?
500
When Duncan says, "There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face," he is referring to this character.
Who is the former Thane of Cawdor? (A traitor!)
500
Samuel Johnson pokes fun at himself in his dictionary entry for this word (it's the term for his profession, and starts with an "L"!)
What is lexicographer?
500
Byron compare's the subjects beauty to ____ in "She Walks in Beauty"
What is the night sky?
500
What is a supportable theme from "To an Athlete Dying Young"?
What is that age and youth are fleeting? (It is better to die while at the height of success rather than see one's star fade)
500
"Cloudless climes and starry skies," and "waves in every raven tress" are examples of this literary device used in "She Walks in Beauty" to emphasize the subject's unique beauty.