Poetry
A poem that was inspired by the predictions of an Italian astronomer and the "year without a summer".
What is Darkness?
A short story set during the Civil War, about the execution of a Southerner.
What is An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge?
The main character in All My Sons.
Who is Joe Keller?
13th century Italian poet and author of the Divine Comedy.
Who is Dante?
A famous tragedy about young lovers from rivalling families.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
A poem written by William Wordsworth, in which the speaker regrets the cooling of a friendship.
What is A Complaint?
She is the narrator in The Lady's Maid's Bell.
Who is Alice Hartley?
A play about the pursuit of dreams, racial discrimination and life in 1940's Chicago's "black belt".
What is A Raisin in the Sun?
A famous novel by Umberto Eco about mysterious murders in a 14th century monastery.
What is The Name of the Rose?
A poem that starts with the words "Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws".
What is Sonnet 19?
A poem by Thomas Hardy that describes the effects of war on the people that stay behind.
What is A Wife in London?
A story written in the form of an office memo.
What is The Axe?
A literary technique by which the full significance of a character's words or actions is clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.
What is dramatic irony?
German-speaking Bohemian writer, author of The Metamorphosis, whose name has entered the English language to describe grotesque situations.
Who was Franz Kafka?
The English monarch at the time of Shakespeare's birth (1564).
Who was Queen Elizabeth I?
A poem in which the injustice of child labour is laid bare.
What is The Cry of the Children?
English writer, contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary and author of The Tower.
Who is Marghanita Laski?
The main theme of All My Sons, as opposed to individualism.
What is social responsibility?
Considered national poet of Chile, famous for his political manifestos and passionate love poems, such as Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
Who was Pablo Neruda?
What is "The Globe"?
A poet who wrote Songs from the Portuguese and was married to Robert Browning.
Who was Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
The arrogant and dim protagonist of Gabriel-Ernest.
Who is Van Cheele?
Successful playwright who was briefly married to Marilyn Monroe.
Who is Arthur Miller?
Percy Bysshe Shelley's wife, who wrote Frankenstein based on a nightmare she had about a monster made from scraps of humans.
Who was Mary Shelley?
The Jewish moneylender in The Merchant of Venice.
Who is Shylock?