UMD English Knowledge
Literature an English major should know
English Track Facts
Unscramble
Literary Devices
100

The name of the recital hall in Tawes 

What is Ulrich 

100

A 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf following the Ramsay family   

What is To the Lighthouse

100

The benchmark introductory course to the English major

What is ENGL301

100

Enpicl

What is: Pencil  

100

The feeling a reader experiences throughout a literary work 

What is mood / atmosphere? 
200

The names of all the English tracks 

What is... 

Literary and cultural studies 

Language, Writing and Rhetoric 

Creative Writing 

Media studies 

200

An old English epic poem about a hero's journey frequently taught in ENGL310 

What is Beowulf 

200

There are four historical periods of the English historical studies - name at least 3 of them

  • Beginnings, Medieval, and Early Modern Periods
  • Long Eighteenth Century
  • Long Nineteenth Century
  • Modern and Contemporary Periods
200

Mamgrra 

What is: Grammar

200

A story whose sole purpose is to represent an abstract conception or idea 

What is an allegory

300

The academic student writing journal 

What is Interpolations 

300
1958 novel which explores the impact of colonialism's destructive forces on a Nigerian clan

What is Things Fall Apart 

300

The minimum amount of 200 level creative writing workshops a Creative Writing major must take

What is one 

300

Crhtreoi

What is: Rhetoric 

300

A deductive scheme of formal arguments consisting of a major and minor premise with a conclusion

What is a syllogism 

400

The Department Chair for English at UMD

Who is Amanda Bailey 

400

Edmund Spenser's most famous Middle English epic which explores Christian values and glorifies the monarchy 

What is the "Faerie Queene" 

400

There are four categories of focus within the Media Studies Track, name one

  • Print and Script
  • Music and Sound
  • Image and Moving Image
  • Digital Cultures
400
Aruettrile

What is: Literature

400

A device where a word or a phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive sentences to create emphasis and rhythm 

What is anaphora? 

500

The number of rooms in Tawes Hall 

(Hint: it's an odd number) 

What is 421 

500

The first line in Pride and Prejudice 

What is: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

500

One topic in the Literary and Cultural Studies track is 'National, Transnational and/or Global Literatures' -- name the other

Form, Genre & Poetics

500

Uiatnocojng

What is: Conjugation

500

The use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but ludicrously wrong in the context

What is malapropism

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