American Minimalism
This literary style, often associated with Raymond Carver and Ernest Hemingway, uses simple language and focuses on ordinary life.
What is minimalism (or dirty realism)
Swift
What is Taylor
This modernist novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the illusion of the American Dream
What is The Great Gatsby
"A young knave, but eight summers aged, is left to guard his father’s house by cruel mischance. On the eve of Christmastide, he must outwit roguish thieves with cunning schemes and merry mischief.
What is Home Alone
This is the number of lines in a typical Shakespearean sonnet.
What is 14 lines
Minimalist stories often revolve around these types of characters.
What are everyday, working-class, or emotionally detached people?
Grande
What is Ariana
This literary term describes Gatsby’s obsessive idealisation of Daisy.
What is romantic idealism / unattainable love?
"A bold maiden of boundless hope joineth forces with a hardy mountaineer and his steadfast beast to seek her kin, a sorceress whose cold sorcery hath cast the kingdom into a frost."
What is Frozen
This specific professor wrote about different love theories
What is Preeta Oza
Hemingway (his first name)
What is Ernest
West
What is Kanye
This classic ideal suggests that anyone in America can succeed through hard work.
What is the American Dream?
"A noble house doth journey to a desolate inn, secluded by winter’s grasp, where a dark and malevolent force doth stir within the father’s soul, turning his hand to wickedness."
What is The Shining
Shakespeare’s sonnets are mostly written in this specific poetic meter.
What is Iambic Pentameter
The impact of minimalist writing often lies not in what is said, but in this.
What is what’s left unsaid (subtext / emotional silence)?
What is Billie
What symbol in The Great Gatsby represents Gatsby’s longing for the dream?
What is the green light?
"A lad, bereft of parents and kin, doth enter a venerable academy of sorcery, where he cometh to know the truth of his own blood and the dread malice that lurketh within the very heart of the enchanted realm.
What is Harry Potter
Elisabeth, Lydia and Mr. Collins appear in this specific novel written by Jane Austen
What is Pride and Prejudice
Mention a (2-3) few of the minimalist characteristics
Less is more, short sentences, no details, no names
Lamar
What is Kendrick
The valley of ashes symbolises this aspect of the American Dream.
What is moral and economic decay / the failure of the dream?
"A maiden of noble birth doth find her heart stirred by a man of humble craft. Their paths cross upon a vessel of unmatched grandeur, whose fate is sealed by the capricious hand of destiny."
What is Titanic
The typical rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet.
What is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG