Dystopia
The theme in Children of men
What is infertility?
Offred
Who is the main character?
It contains 14 lines, it is like a poem, and shakespeare wrote more than 150 of them
What is a sonnet?
When a text refers to other known art
What is intertextuality?
Something that conveys humor visually often without words being used at all.
What is gag?
Characteristic of dystopian fiction
what are propaganda, constant surveillance, a protagonist who feels trapped
Blessed be the fruit
What is the handmaids' greeting?
The country Macbeth takes place in
What is Scotland?
The book we lent from the library in the beginning
What is City of Glass?
Humor that is generally perceived by society to be rude or vulgar.
What is Low Humor?
The protagonist in 1984
Who is Winston Smith?
The punishment for rape
What is a good ol’ beating and hanging?
A metric line used in traditional English poetry that Shakespeare uses in his plays and sonnets
What is an iambic pentameter?
The animals mentioned in the text “Erosive”
What are ants?
The exaggeration or oversimplifying traits in a persons looks or behavior in order to make them look funny.
What is Caricature?
The real name of the city of Omales
What is Omelas?
The resistance group
What is Mayday?
You divide the 14 lines sonnet into two parts.
What is the first part, 8 lines (octet), second part, 6 lines (sestet).
the main character in American Beauty
Who is Lester Burnham?
something that doesn't meet our expectations of how the world works.
What is Incongruity?
The first writer to use the name utopia
Who is Sir Thomas More?
Quote found in closet.
What is “Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum”?
The last two lines of a sonnet that change up the circumstances.
What is the couplets?
When multiple genres are combined
What is Pastiche?
Something that can be understood in more than one way.
What is Ambiguity?