The name of a famous civil rights leader who used non-violent methods
Who was Martin Luther King
100
Famous freedom fighter using non-violent methods
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
100
The point of view in the short story Adams
What is first person narrator?
100
A third person narrator that has access to only one character's thoughts and feelings.
What is a thrid person limited narrator?
200
A writing style characterized by "show don't tell"
What is Minimalism?
200
Black American dialect
What is Ebonics?
200
Poem by Kiplign expressing the core values of British Imperialism
What is The White Man's Burden?
200
Deranged serial killer and American Psycho clone
Who is Dexter?
200
Many short stories begin like this
What is in medias res?
300
Short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in which the female main character turns insane due to the limited social role of women in the 19th century.
What is The Yellow Wallpaper?
300
The name of the city and the state where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
300
A common way of executing your wife if dowry is not paid by her family
What is bride burning?
300
The modern crime story focuses on this element rather than plot
What is character?
300
A poem - often about love - consisting of 3 quatrains and a couplet.
What is a sonnet
400
The author of the minimalist short story "What we talk about when we talk about love"
Who is Raymond Carver?
400
The new negro movement starting in the 1920s in Harlem. Black artists expressed their thoughts and feelings concerning African American identity and history.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
400
A word literally meaning "scrappy street kid"
What is chokra?
400
Literary term for the type of ending in Rendezvous
What is an open ending?
400
A term for a word that refers to at least two things at the same time
What is a symbol?
500
The element of the traditional love story that Margaret Atwood comments on in her short story
What is the happy ending?
500
Expression used in a court rule in the late 1800s defending the Jim Crow Laws
What is seperate but equal?
500
Traditional social hierachy enforced by the British raj in India and now forbidden.
What is the caste system?
500
The title of the short story with an explicit intertextual reference to religion
What is Son of Satan?
500
The rhythm characterized by 5 unstressed and five stressed syllbales in a line