Literati Challenge 1
Literati Challenge Take 2
Say what?!
That did not just happen.
Hodgepodge
100
You must read The Metamorphosis; it's marvelously magnificent!
What is alliteration?
100
Telescreens, Doublethink, Crimestop are examples of these.
What are neologisms?
100
He/She said, "I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self."
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
100
So this one day we were stuck on the Thames...
What is The Heart of Darkness?
100
The most common metrical unit in English poetry; when an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.
What is an iamb?
200
"Mistah Kurtz, he dead!" Is this to "The Hollow Men".
What is the epigraph?
200
All men are mortal. Socrates was a man. Therefore, Socrates was mortal.
What is a syllogism?
200
He/She said, "And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested."
Who is Winston Smith?
200
I realized I wished he hadn't put a ring on it.
What is The Awakening/Edna Pontellier?
200
"A man is God in ruins"- Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Sometimes indolence can be exhausting" - Peter Cameron "Departing." (A brief, sometimes clever saying that expresses a principle, truth or observation about life.)
What is an aphorism?
300
"I will quit school with three weeks until graduation if Ms. Kanter makes me write one more in-class essay." (This device can be used to heighten effect, to catalyze recognition, or to create a humorous perception.)
What is hyperbole?
300
When "my wheels" are substituted for "my car."
What is a synecdoche?
300
He/She said, "To thine own self be true."
Who is Polonius?
300
Let down and hangin' around (literally)...
What is The Metamorphosis/Gregor Samsa?
300
The distinction between blank verse and free verse.
What is blank verse is just not free; although it doesn't rhyme, it consists of lines of iambic pentameter. Free verse is free of a pattern of rhythm or rhyme.
400
"We made a difference. We made the city stronger, we made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all." (Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address to the Nation, 1/20/89) (A particular form of understatement; is generated by denying the opposite or contrary of the word which otherwise would be used.)
What is litotes?
400
When we realize Claudius isn't actually praying (3.3) but Hamlet does not.
What is dramatic irony?
400
Dead? Not Dead? In a Barrel?
Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
400
Oh good Ford! Get me to the Feelies!
What is Brave New World?
400
A long, serious meditative work of poetry written in an elevated, formal style. A famous example includes "___to a Nightingale"
What is an ode?
500
"The ironing is delicious..." - Bart Simpson after he finds Lisa in detention.
What is malapropism? (A ludicrous misuse of words that sound alike.)
500
You've showed a negative gain in test scores.
What is euphemism?
500
He/She said, "I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been ashamed."
Who is the protagonist from Invisible Man?
500
Everybody dies. Obviously.
What is Hamlet, The Prince of Denmark?
500
The answer to the riddle in this Sylvia Plath poem: I'm a riddle in nine syllables./ An elephant, a ponderous house,/ A melon strolling on two tendrils./ O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!/ This loaf's big with its yeasty rising./ Money's new-minted in this fat purse./ I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf./ I've eaten a bag of green apples,/ Boarded the train there's no getting off.
What is a pregnant woman?
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