Poetry
Fiction
Genre
Literary Terms
Mystery
100
14 line poem
What is a sonnet.
100
This character comes to town and steals attention from the old man with wings in the story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings".
What is the spider lady.
100
A literary and artistic movement from the late 1700s to the early 1800s that emphasized emotion over reason, nature, and experiences of the sublime.
What is Romanticism.
100
This literary device compares two things using like or as.
What is a simile.
100
This historical event involving the overthrow of the Shah is central to Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis.
What is the Iranian Revolution.
200
This poet was written when the poet awoke from a drug-induced slumber.
What is "Kubla Khan".
200
The cause of the car accident in O'Connor's story "A Good Man is Hard to Find".
What is cat jumping out of grandmother's valise.
200
A literary movement in South America that combines fabulous events with ordinary events.
What is Magic Realism.
200
Frankenstein is an example of this type of narrative structure.
What is a frame narrative.
200
In Autobiography of Red, Herakles steals this carousel animal from Harrods department store
What is a tiger.
300
This poem ends with the line: "Darkly he rose, and then I slept."
What is "A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island".
300
The monster's favorite book in Frankenstein.
What is Paradise Lost.
300
Flannery O'Connor is a writer of this literary genre.
What is Southern Gothic.
300
In poetry, when a line does not end on a natural pause.
What is enjambment.
300
In Persepolis, Marji compares this political thinker to God.
What is Karl Marx.
400
River referred to in Shelley's poem "Mont Blanc".
What is the Arve.
400
Mary Shelley's age when she began writing Frankenstein.
What is 18.
400
The motto of a poet from this movement is: "No ideas but in things".
What is Imagism?
400
The blurring of the senses. One of the things that makes Geryon different from others in Autobiography of Red.
What is synaesthesia.
400
The last age before the flood in Ovid's creation story.
What is the age of iron.
500
"She walks in beauty" by Lord Byron is written in this meter.
What is iambic tetrameter.
500
Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" is told from this point of view.
What is 3rd person limited.
500
Romanticism was a reaction against this philosophical movement.
What is the Enlightenment.
500
In Homeric poetry, a unit of of descriptive language which is repeated, such as "wine-dark sea" or "rosy-fingered dawn".
What is an epithet.
500
Anne Carson's "Autobiography of Red" is a response to this Greek poet.
What is Stesichoros.
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