Literary Terms
Authors
Protaganists
Themes
Literary Terms Again
100
This term applies to times in stories when things don't come together.
What are contradictions and incongruities?
100
This author wrote "Lamb to the Slaughter"
Who is Roald Dahl?
100
Paul Berlin
What is "Where Have You Gone Charming Billy?"
100
A young boy goes through a rite of passage when he swims through a tunnel under the sea.
What is "Through the Tunnel"?
100
This is a type of narrative where characters and settings stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities.
What is an allegory?
200
This is when the opposite of what is expected happens.
What is situational irony?
200
This author wrote "Where Have You Gone Charming Billy?"
Who is Tim O'Brien?
200
Prince Prospero
What is "The Masque of the Red Death"?
200
Police investigating a murder eat the murder weapon.
What is "Lamb to the Slaughter"?
200
This is a type of irony where the reader knows what it going to happen to the protaganist, but the protaganist doesn't know.
What is dramatic irony?
300
This is a genre where the ordinary mixes with the extraordinary or magical.
What is magical realism?
300
This is a Latin American author who often writes stories in a genre called magic realism.
Who is Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
300
Marin and/or Geraldo
What is "Geraldo With No Last Name"?
300
No one, regardless of how rich they are, can evade death.
What is "Masque of the Red Death"?
300
A symbol usually stands for something abstract or concrete.
What is abstract?
400
This is a term applied to an object in literature that stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
400
This poet said that "poetry saved his life" when he began writing poetry in prison. We read his poem "I Am Offering This Poem".
Who is Jimmy Santiago Baca?
400
a dirty angel
What is "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"?
400
A poet comments on that first family meal without a beloved family member.
What is "Eating Together"?
400
This is a type of irony where an author uses words to mean the opposite of what he is saying, such as "war is kind."
What is verbal irony?
500
We say a story has this kind of ending when there are multiple interpetations of how it could end.
What is an ambiguous ending?
500
This poet plays with syntax and punctuation and grammar and writes poems full of whimsy.
Who is e.e. cummings?
500
Flick Webb
What is "Ex-Basketball Player"?
500
It is ironic that a mountain climber feels detached instead of exuberant after reaching the summit of Mt. Everest.
What is "Into Thin Air"?
500
This type of genre mixes fantasy with reality.
What is magic realism?
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