Literary Eras
The era best known for its gathering of gays and influenced heavily by WWII and the Red Scare.
What is the Beat Generation?
The literary criticism that allows historical events to influence the author's writing.
What is Historicism?
The poet influenced by religion. Was always competing with their father, which in turn gave them their creative stimulus.
Who is Gerard Manley Hopkins?
When the part is used to represent the whole, or vice versa.
What is Synecdoche?
The animal on fire that fell out of a house in Wide Sargasso Sea. A huge use of symbolism and metaphor was associated with it.
What is a Parrot?
The literary era whose novels were most commonly based off of adventure and heavily influenced by religion?
What is the Medieval Era?
The literary criticism that includes looking deep into a text and practicing close reading techniques.
What is New Criticism?
A prominent leader in the Civil Rights Movement and based their work on their life.
What is a Symbol?
Character of Wuthering Heights who is very curious about the Grange's past.
Who is Mr. Lockwood?
The literary era that involved the works of Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and was based around the bad obstacles that are experienced in one's life.
What is Confessionalism?
Theory that includes these three waves:
-Highlighted inequality between sexes
-Building equal working conditions
-Expand on population's experiences
What is Feminism?
The poet influenced by Watergate and the end of the Vietnam War.
Who is Anne Sexton?
The associated or secondary meaning of a word or phrase in addition to its primary meaning.
What is Connotation?
The character that pushed her husband into murdering to attain more power.
Who is Lady MacBeth?
The era that is heavily based around WWI and reflects the darkness that befell society after its conclusion.
What is Modernism?
Theory that questions the idea of what is considered "normal", "fight the system", and encourages otherness and difference.
One of the two poets influenced in their writings by their sexuality.
Who is Langston Hughes and Hilda Doolittle?
Manner of writing in which a character's thoughts are presented in a random form without a logical sequence.
What is Stream of Consciousness?
The reason why De Lacey let the Frankenstein's monster inside of his house.
What is he was blind?
The difference between modernism and postmodernism.
Postmodernism: -Identity causes -Use of humor -Attempts to better life
Modernism: -Seems to "mope" -Believes that nothing can be fixed
The theory whose main focus claimed that identity is not fixed and gender is a performance.
What is Butler's Theory?
The poet that was heavily influenced by the French Revolution. How did this event show in their work?
What is William Wordsworth, shows through his themes of independence that are heavily incorporated into his literature.
The term used to describe when a story opens in the middle of an action, often bypassing the exposition.
What is En Media Res?
The HP house associated with Ms. Hozan.
ACTUALLY DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is Ravenclaw