Cultural Setting in Persepolis
So many choices; so many terms!
Name that text & writer
How Romantic!
How Kafkaesque!
100
The year the Shah's regime was overthrown in Iran, initiating the "Islamic Revolution."
What is 1979?
100
Visual, aural, olfactory, tactile, and gustatory.
What is imagery?
100
“I wanted to be a prophet because our maid did not eat with us. Because my father had a Cadillac. And, above all, because my Grandmother’s knees always ached.”
What is Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi?
100
The title and the artist.
What is the Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar Friedreich?
100
An adjective: a beleaguered and alienated individual struggles to navigate an absurd and confounding situation
What is "Kafkaesque?"
200
A form of government that combines both religious and state power.
What is a theocracy?
200
A story within a story. One narrator turns story-telling duties over to another.
What is a framed narrative?
200
"I met a traveler from an antique land"
What is Ozymandias by Percy Shelley?
200
"of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe."
What is the sublime?
200
He "woke up one morning from unsettling dreams" changed into a "monstrous vermin."
Who is Gregor Samsa?
300
A branch of Islam that believes Ali ibn Abi Talib, the Prophet Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law, was the rightful successor to the Prophet. They make up about 15% of the world's Muslim population.
Who are the Shia?
300
Geographic, atmospheric, temporal, and cultural.
What is setting?
300
And I had done a hellish thing,
And it would work 'em woe:
For all averred, I had killed the bird
That made the breeze to blow.
Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,
That made the breeze to blow!
What is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
300
These lines are quoted from this sonnet by this English poet: "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
What is "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley?
300
A highly symbolic narrative that indirectly examines an aspect of reality, usually providing a moral, political, or philosophical message.
What is an allegory?
400
This semester, you wrote an essay focused on this thematic concept.
What is "fundamentalism?"
400
A concrete narrative element that represents an abstract theme.
What is a symbol?
400
"they braced themselves, crowded around the cage, and did not ever want to move away."
What is "A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka?
400
These lines provide a moral near the end of this epic ballad poem by this English poet, ""He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both great and small; / For the dear God who loveth us, / He made and loveth all."
What is the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
400
"And it was like a confirmation of their new dreams and good intentions when at the end of the ride ? got up first and stretched ? young body."
Who is Greta Samsa?
500
Who is Jina Mahsa Amini (1999- 2022)
500
In a work of art, an idea, opinion, message, or meaning that is either directly or indirectly expressed by the creator.
What is a theme?
500
"Yes, now there is a God."
What is "Answer" by Frederic Brown?
500
This poetic device repeats for rhythm and thematic emphasis, for example:
“Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.”
What is parallelism?
500
The Hunger Artist's replacement.
What is a "young panther?"