Literary Devices
The term for an author's use of visual descriptive language, often employed to describe a scene's concrete objects, actors, or states through literal or figurative language.
What is imagery?
Victory Day in Europe occurred in this month of 1945
What is May?
The wife of this author - featured in our units - is famous in her own right as a publisher of underground zines in the San Francisco and New York City, following her education in France during the 1950s and 1960s.
Who is Art Spiegelman?
This country ended its participation in WWI early due to domestic unrest.
What is Russia?
This singer song remained the highest selling artist for the 2025 calendar year; they continue to lead physical sales as of May 2026.
Who is Taylor Swift?
A comparison between two unlike things that does not use like or as.
What is metaphor?
This joint stock company was formally in control of modern day India prior to the British Crown assuming direct governance of the region.
What is the East India Company?
Persepolis was originally published in this language.
What is French?
Alongside Northern Ireland, this middle eastern/Levantine country - located on the Mediterranean Sea - is one of the few in the world whose government practices 'power-sharing' between its dominant religions.
What is Lebanon?
This Netflix film won the Oscar for best animated picture and best original song at the 2026 Academy Awards.
What is K Pop Demon Hunters?
The repetition of similar, starting consonant sounds across a string of several words.
What is alliteration?
This Iranian Prime Minister was ousted by a CIA supported coup in 1953.
Who is Mosaddegh?
This harrowing novel of trench combat was published by Erich Remarque in 1929.
What is All Quiet on the Western Front.
A popular concept in Marji's beloved field of dialectical materialism, this word refers to a tension or antagonism between two competing but intimately related ideas.
What is contradiction?
This artist released a surprise trio of albums on May 15th, 2026.
Who is Drake?
A repeated symbol or idea that reinforces a story's main theme, it is also a term utilized for a repeating phrase in a piece of music.
What is a motif?
This branch of Islam is the largest internationally and is a minority in Iran.
What is Sunni?
Art Spiegelman contributed art - including a famous blacked out cover illustration in 2001 - to this internationally famous magazine.
What is the New Yorker?
What is the Soviet?
This actor became the sixth black leading man to win the Oscar for best lead performance at the 2026 Academy Awards.
Who is Michael B Jordan?
The granting of human characteristics to inhuman or inanimate things.
What is anthropomorphism?
Sharing the root of its name with a popular dog breed, the acquisition of this mountainous region was a key interest of post-World War I Italy.
This poet's 'The Tyger' is responsible for the line which gave Things Fall Apart its epigraph and name.
Who is William Butler Yeats?
The Bee Gees, a prominent disco band famous for their inclusion on that one guy's T-Shirt in Persepolis, released this best selling single in 1977; today, it is commonly used to teach the proper rthyhm for CPR.
What is Stayin' Alive?
In March of 2026, this popular video game franchise abandoned its usual collection and battle gameplay for a cooperative, Animal Crossing-style social simulator.
What is Pokemon?