Women threatened by tyrannical men or simply by circumstance. (i.e. Disney princesses)
What is Damsel in Distress?
100
War novel which makes very little sense and satarizes the absurdity of war.
What is Catch-22?
100
Novel focusing on the life and struggles of Edna Pontellier.
What is The Awakening?
100
Allegory to Tim O'Brien's time in Vietnam and the things he experienced.
What is The Things They Carried?
100
A comparison using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
200
Short story in which confinement and isolation play a large role in the insanity of the narrator.
What is the Yellow Wallpaper?
200
Comically imitates a (usually serious) literary work/type of genre, person/type of person, or a historical/contemporary event.
What is parody?
200
Love and instinct become more inportant than reason.
What is love of nature?
200
Name of the infamous serial killer in the Devil in the White City.
What is H. H. Holmes.
200
Rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.
What is an anaphora?
300
The appearance of ghosts or unexplained manifestations.
What is the Supernatural?
300
Low satire, tends to focus on personal or stereotypical characteristics; most often expressed through drawings or cartoons.
What is caricature?
300
Heroic conduct especially as exhibited in fulfilling a higher purpose or attaining a noble end.
What is heroism?
300
Play consisting of a reoccuring theme of racism and discrimination.
What is Fences?
300
A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses.
What is a zeugma?
400
A very common theme in Gothic literature, often tragic, and central to the plot of the story. (i.e. "the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love".)
What is Death?
400
Essay in which the author uses satire to express an extreme solution to famine, written during the Irish Potato Famine.
What is A Modest Proposal?
400
Novel portraying Puritan beliefs through the persecution of Hester Prynne.
What is the Scarlet Letter?
400
Play outlining the mental decline of an entrepreneur.
What is Death of a Salesman?
400
Used if the two independent clauses are somehow contrasting, as when following a statement with a question.
What is a comma splice?
500
A short story in which setting and details serve to add to the dark themes of evil and insanity.
What is the Fall of the House of Usher?
500
Characterized by ridiculous exaggeration; treats trivial subject matter in an elevated/serious manner and vice versa.
What is Burlesque?
500
The love of exotic locations around the world in time and space.
What is Strange and Far Away Places?
500
Chemical used by H. H. Holmes to commit or assist many of his 200 murders.