Poetry
This literary term refers to instances in a poem or other text that refers to another work or text.
What is an allusion?
This is the term for the art of persuasion in speaking and writing.
What is rhetoric?
Western drama is derived from festivals honoring this Greek god of wine.
Who is Dionysus?
This writer was born in Massachusetts, received a Fulbright to study in the UK, and became known for autobiographical poetry that reflected their fragile mental state.
Who is Sylvia Plath?
This is the term for the scripted movement a director gives to the actors of a play.
What is blocking?
This poem includes a middle-aged man's inner monologue that reveals his anxieties about isolation, feeling of impotence, and ennui.
What is "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?'
In the creative writing fields, instruction is often organized in this format, which allows for a lot of feedback and collaboration.
What are workshops?
Oedipus rises to prominence in Thebes after completing this feat.
What is answering the Sphinx's riddle?
Who wrote Oedipus Rex?
Who is Sophocles?
Langston Hughes was part of this early 20th-century movement of Black writers, artists, and thinkers that celebrated Black identity and their emerging freedom in society, especially in urban society.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
"The Flea" uses an extended metaphor, also known by this term, of the flea to convince his beloved to be with him.
What is a conceit?
A person who writes instructions on how to program a video game is likely part of this profession, which requires specialized knowledge as well as adept composition skills.
What is technical writing?
Medieval cycle drama were a series of mystery plays performed by these organizations on moving carts.
What are guilds?
This writer found success among a white audience despite his focus on the Black experience in Harlem and beyond, and he captured the discomfort of that in "Dinner Guest: Me."
Who is Langston Hughes?
In Greek drama, the chorus's parts are broken into these two types of responses.
What are strophe and anti-strophe?
Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" is an example of this autobiographical style of poetry that rose to prominence in the 1950s and for which she is well known.
What is confessional poetry?
This subfield of English studies has been part of classical education for over 1,000 years, and focuses on argumentation and clear communication.
What is composition and rhetoric?
After finding out that he did actually marry his mother and murder his father, Oedipus asks Creon do this.
What is exile him from Thebes?
Despite the sometimes overtly erotic undertones in his poetry, this poet acted as the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London and was known for his sermons during his tenure there.
Who is John Donne?
This poet, who uses the phrase "the center cannot hold" to refer to the chaos of the modern era, is considered to be on of the most important figures in the modernist literary movement.
Who is T.S. Eliot?
This is the literary term for the continuance of a line into another without a stop indicated by punctuation.
What is enjambment?
This approach to film analysis requires the critic to deconstruct cinematic elements to create meaning in a film.
What is poststructuralist theory?
Aristotle outlined the characteristics of tragedy and drama in general in this work.
What is Poetics?
T.S. Eliot was born into a prominent New England family who were members of this, an elite class of people with old money.
What is the Boston Brahmin class?
Name one of the two Greek playwrights we discussed as contemporaries of the writer of Oedipus Rex (but who is not the author himself).
Who are Aeschylus or Euripides?