Literature
Poetry
Drama
Narrative
Christmas
100
A form of communication which includes the author, the text and the reader.
What is Literature?
100
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What is an alternate/crossed rhyme?
100
Talking in turns by two speakers.
What is a dialogue?
100
The chronological sequence of narrated events.
What is the story?
100
Blitzen, Comet, Cupid, Dasher, Prancer, Vixen, Dancer, and Donner
What are the names of Santa's reindeers?
200
A definition of literature which encompasses all written communication but not oral literatures.
What is the broad definition of literature?
200
Sequence of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse.
What is the metre of a poem?
200
Power
What is the main theme of William Shakespeare's The Tempest?
200
The shaping of the story material by the narrator (How is the story narrated? How is it mediated?)
What is the discourse of a narrative text?
200
Bethlehem
Where was Jesus born?
300
A definition of literature which is based on qualitative criteria.
What is the normative definition of literature?
300
Rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter
What is an heroic couplet?
300
A play should have one action that it follows, with minimal subplots.
What is the Unity of Action?
300
Detailed development of the plot with plenty of introductory and antecedent information, typically beginning with the birth of the protagonist
What is an Ab Ovo beginning?
300
Boxing Day
What is the official name of the day after Christmas (December 26th) in Canada and the UK?
400
Title, subtitle, subdivision of the text, generic terms (e.g. novel, comedy), legal disclaimers
What are paratextual signals of fictionality?
400
Unstressed - unstressed - stressed
What is the Anapest?
400
A character directly addressing the audience with a short comment and thereby breaking the fourth wall.
What is an aside?
400
Omniscient and omnipresent narrator who is situated outside the world of the characters and appears as a concrete and tangible speaker.
What is an intrusive narrator?
400
Charles Dickens
Who is the author of A Christmas Carol?
500
The dynamic interplay between reality and literature
What is mimesis?
500
A ‘word picture’, the actual referent is not named directly, instead it is replaced or paraphrased using words from another field of reference.
What is a metaphor?
500
A counter-part to another character in order to highlight strengths and weaknesses.
What is a foil character?
500
Spectrum of characterisitcs and attitudes of the narrator.
What is the narrator perspective?
500
Queen Victoria's husband (Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha).
Who made the christmas tree popular in the UK?
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