What is the name of the author who wrote The Importance of Being Earnest?
100
To propose to Gwendolen.
Why did Earnest come from the country?
100
Miss Prism
Who is Cecily's governess?
100
He won't allow Algernon to marry Cecily unless Lady Bracknell allows Gwendolen to marry him.
Who is Jack?
100
Literary art form that ridicules human folly or vice hoping to correct it.
What is satire?
200
Algernon Moncrieff
Who is John Worthing's best friend?
200
Cecily Cardew
Who is the cigarette case from?
200
Just like Jack, he pretends to be named Earnest.
Who is Algernon?
200
A manuscript.
What was Miss Prism writing?
200
Using words to be clever and funny with language.
What is wit?
300
Bunbury
Who is Algernon's "friend" from the country?
300
Lady Bracknell
Who does Algernon distract while Earnest proposes to Gwendolyn?
300
Dr.Chasuble.
Who is the man that is going to rechristen Jack and Algy?
300
Miss Prism
Who put baby Jack in the handbag?
300
A figure of speech in which the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning.
What is verbal irony?
400
Gwendolen Fairfax
Who is Algernon's cousin?
400
Victoria Station, in a handbag.
Where and in what was Jack discovered?
400
A severe chill.
What did Earnest "die" from according to Jack?
400
Jack's real name.
Who is Earnest?
400
A character, often old, who interferes with the romantic desires or the other main characters and provides comic action.
What is a blocking figure?
500
Cecily Cardew
Who does Jack watch over?
500
Jack tells people Earnest is his brother.
While in the country, who is Earnest in relation to Jack?
500
Lady Bracknell doesn't let Gwendolen marry Jack.
Why does Gwendolen run away?
500
"I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital importance of being Earnest."
What is the ironic line that Jack tells Lady Bracknell at the end of the story?
500
An artistic composition, especially literary or dramatic, which for the sake of laughter, mocks high or low subjects by comparing them to their opposites.