It's All Greek (or Latin) To Me!
This theme (translating to "seize the day") encourages one to yield to love while one is still young and beautiful.
What is carpe diem?
This French term refer to any expression that has been used so much it has lost its freshness and clarity.
What is a cliche?
The American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice for Rabbit is Rich (1982) and Rabbit at Rest (1991).
Who is John Updike?
The American poet who wrote Dream Work, House of Light, and Dog Songs, and also won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection American Primitive.
Who is Mary Oliver?
Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Lost in Yonkers.
Who is Neil Simon?
This Greek term denotes a poem written for the celebration of a wedding.
What is an epithalamium (also epithalamion or prothalamion)?
This is the French word for a type of poem that refers to the lament of lovers parting at the break of day.
What is an aube (alba or aubade are not French, but also count)?
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Hours.
Who is Michael Cunningham?
Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Thomas and Beulah.
Who is Rita Dove?
Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Doubt: A Parable.
Who is John Patrick Shanley?
This Latin phrase describes a story which begins in the middle of the action.
What is in media res?
This type of composition has two contestants debate a topic and refer it to a judge.
What is a debat?
Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad.
Who is Jennifer Egan?
The American Poet who won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection The Wild Iris as well as the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who is Louise Gluck?
Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Topdog/Underdog.
Who is Suzan-Lori Parks?
This language was spoken throughout the ancient Greek world, and was also the language of the New Testament.
What is koine?
French for parody or literary imitation, but can also be applied to literary patchworks formed by piecing together extracts from various works by one or several authors.
What is pastiche?
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Middlesex.
Who is Jeffrey Eugenides?
Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Neon Vernacular.
Who is Yusef Komunyakaa?
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in both 1987 for Fences and 1991 for The Piano Lesson.
Who is August Wilson?
This Latin phrase rhetorically asks "Where are those who were before us?" or, as in Rossetti's "The Ballade of the Dead Ladies": "But where are the snows of yester-year?"
What is ubi sunt?
A critical method involving the analysis of the meanings, relationships, and ambiguities that make up a literary work; used by the New Critics.
What is explication de texte?
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
Who is Michael Chabon?
Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Repair.
Who is C. K. Williams?
Three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Delicate Balance (1967), Seascape (1975), and Three Tall Women (1994).
Who is Edward Albee?