A famous Victorian writer who was highly acclaimed for writing about poverty and the lower classes
Who is Charles Dickens
100
The "royalist" name for the renaissance, named after the female sovereign at the time
What is Elizabethan
100
A type of imagery that captures the mood of impermanence and decay of physical objects. A latin name!
What is Vanitas
100
The name for rhyming with letters
What is allitteration
200
A writer credited for having written the first novel in the world (although he didn't, actually!) about a man left on a desert island.
Who is Daniel Defoe
200
The "royalist" name for most of the 19th century named after the second female sovereign in English history
What is Victorian
200
The staging of the audience knowing something vital about the plot that the characters do not know
What is dramatic irony
200
The stylistic name for a figure of exaggeration
What is Hyperbole
300
A romantic writer who wrote "Frankenstein"
Who is Mary Shelley
300
The "royalist" name for the turn of the century (from 19th to 20th) named after the firstborn son of Queen Victoria (who was king for a short span of years)
What is Edwardian
300
The name (among many names) for a way of composing the events in a rising curve of tension towards relief
What is the Hollywood model
300
The name for an image that compares two items
What is Simile
400
A female writer who wrote "Pride and Prejudice"; a satire about codes and conventions of marriage and match making in the beginning of the 19th century.
Who is Jane Austen
400
A literary period with a "semi-royalist" name referring to the time after Cromwell's reign with monarchy being restored (hint: restored!)
What is restoration
400
The name for starting the plot immediately without giving any background information
What is In medias res
400
the name for placing contradictory concepts or ideas along with each other
What is a paradox
500
A famous renaissance playwright whose old theatre (The Globe) has been rebuilt in London
Who is William Shakespeare
500
A literary phase that we normally call "enlightenment" but which has been given a royalist name referring to a famous roman emperor.
What is Augustan
500
The literary name for the character who serves as a moral or existential ideal by which other characters may be measured
What is Yardstick character
500
A way of using another less offensive or vulgar expression for something