A deadly weakness in spite of overall strength that can potentially lead to downfall; vulnerability
What is an Achilles Heel?
100
a 14-line poem with two main forms (Italian and Shakespearean)
What is a sonnet?
100
an assertion seemingly opposed to common sense because it contains a contradiction but has truth in it
What is a paradox?
100
the town that the Hands live in
What is Coketown?
100
the author; descendant of one of the judges of the Salem Witch Trials
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
200
An elderly, stingy, bitter, greedy person based on a Charles Dickens' novel
Who is Scrooge?
200
rhythm of 5 pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables
What is iambic pentameter?
200
A characteristic of writing that seeks the effect of informal spoken language as distinct from formal or literary English
What is colloquial?
200
the character who lies about enduring a rough upbringing
Who is Bounderby?
200
the original meaning behind Hester Prynne's scarlet letter
What is adulterer?
300
A narrow-minded prudish person
Who is Mrs. Grundy?
300
A long poem about a hero on a quest
What is an epic poem?
300
it employs the use of part for whole or whole for part
What is synechdoche?
300
the genre Dickens uses to criticize the industrial, Victorian society
What is satire?
300
Pearl's father
Who is Arthur Dimmesdale?
400
A harsh, cruel, demanding person in authority based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel
Who is Simon Legree?
400
Pendaric, Horatian, Irregular
What are the three forms of an ode?
400
use of word/phrase that is less direct, but is also less distasteful or less offensive than another
What is a euphemism?
400
a significant topic discussed in the novel; highlighted in scenes involving Stephen Blackpool and Josiah Bounderby
What is social class division?
400
A religious group in Massachusetts criticized by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the novel
Who are the Puritans?
500
A timid, unassertive person based off of a character in a comic strip
Who is Milquetoast?
500
A 19-line poem that originated in France with two rhymes throughout
What is a villanelle?
500
understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negation of the opposite
What is a litotes?
500
A development in Britain during the 18th century that is symbolized by Coketown and incited Dickens to write the novel
What is the Industrial Revolution?
500
a recurring scene where Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Pearl are all present, appears in the beginning, middle, and end of the novel