When the unexpected happens or the opposite of what one expects happens
What is irony?
200
Bingley's haughty sister who wants Darcy for herself
Who is Caroline Bingley?
200
Hill on which King Macbeth's castle sits
What is Dunsinane?
200
A sudden change in tone, perception, thought, etc,in a poem
What is a volta?
200
Type of satire that moves the exalted and sublime to the level of the ridiculous or commonplace
What is Bathos?
200
Play on words
What is a pun?
300
All the Bennett daughters from eldest to youngest
Who are Jane, Lizzy, Mary, Kitty and Lydia
300
Deliberate telling of half-truths
What is equivocation?
300
The type of satire employed by Austen and Wilde
What is Horation satire?
300
A long speech delivered by a single person in the presence of others
What is a monologue?
400
Where the Bennetts live
What is Longburne?
400
Century in which Shakespeare wrote Macbeth
What is the 17th century?
400
Verbal sparring
What is stichomythia?
400
Form of satire in which the trivial is elevated to the sublime
What is Mock Heroic?
400
Unrhymed iambic pentmeter
What is blank verse?
500
Three of Jane Austen's satirical objects of attack
What are,19th century views on marriage, England's class structure, wrongful first impressions based on pride and prejudice, character types who display hypocrisy, self-righteousness, condescention, etc.
500
Five motif patterns in the play
What are clothing and sewing, sleep/sleeplessness, hands, blood, seeds, growth and procreation, manhood, light/darkness, animals, chain of being, etc
500
Forced to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity
Who is Sisyphus?
500
Imitating a well-known work or style for comedic effect
What is parody?
500
In the likeness of truth--a writer creates characters and settings that seem completely true and believable