A poet known for his works on the African-American experience, as well as works that infused jazz sounds into poetry.
Who is Langston Hughes?
100
Never was seen so black a day as this
What is inversion?
100
An extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
100
The type of literary theory you are using if you examine the way different gendered characters interact in a story.
What is feminist theory?
200
Author of The Great Gatsby
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
200
A poet known for his lack of capitalized letters.
Who is e.e. cummings?
200
A sentence that demands that its audience do something.
What is an imperative sentence?
200
"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun"
What is a metaphor?
200
The type of literary theory you are using if you examine the way different classes interact in a story.
What is Marxist theory?
300
The author of Huck Finn
Who is Mark Twain?
300
The writer who coined the phrase "the lost generation"
Who is Gertrude Stein?
300
A sentence that suggests that its audience do something.
What is hortative?
300
Saying "White House" to stand in for all of the American government.
What is metonymy?
300
The type of literary theory you are using if you examine the influence of the id, ego, and superego on a character.
What is psychoanalytic theory?
400
The author of The Awakening
Who is Kate Chopin?
400
The writer most associated with Southern Gothic literature, with characters like Manley Pointer and The Misfit
Who is Flannery O'Connor
400
"And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing."
What is a periodic sentence?
400
"All hands on deck"
What is syndecdoche?
400
The type of literary theory you are using if you examine the way a character follows the traditional hero's journey.
What is archetypal theory?
500
The playwright of The Crucible
Who is Arthur Miller?
500
The creator of the Imagist movement
Who is Ezra Pound?
500
"Her moving wings ignited like tissue paper, enlarging the circle of light in the clearing and creating out of the darkness the sudden blue sleeves of my sweater, the green leaves of jewelweed by my side, the ragged red trunk of a pine."
What is a cumulative sentence?
500
"He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men."
What is a zeugma?
500
Another term for an antihero, like Gatsby or Batman.