An English playwright, who is sometimes referred to as "the Bard".
Who was William Shakespeare?
100
The author of "Hills Like White Elephants" and "Indian Camp".
Who was Ernest Hemingway?
100
A television series intended to start a discussion of British terrorism and how to deal with it.
What is BRITZ?
100
A generation that has found itself liberated from norms and rules of the past.
Its writers include Douglas Coupland.
What is Generation X?
100
An 1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë.
What is Jane Eyre?
200
An analytical term that is often important when dealing with evil in literature.
It takes its name from the act of looking or seeing.
What is point of view?
200
An American minimalist writer, author of Short Cuts, a collection of short stories.
Who was Raymond Carver?
200
A non-government agent attempting to influence the world through actions that cause fear in a civil population.
What is a terrorist?
200
Named after a word meaning "flow", a geographical term, and an art form, this movement finds that the fall of the meta-narratives provokes emptiness, anxiety, and paralyzation.
What is FLUX British Literature?
200
A Dublin author who used symbolism extensively and experimented with stream-of-consciousness in his late works.
Who was James Joyce?
300
The kind of evil where harmful deeds are committed for the sake of attaining something you want.
What is instrumental evil?
300
A writing style in which important things are hidden, as it were, beneath the surface of the text.
What is the Iceberg Technique?
300
A restriction of individual liberties ordered by the UK Home Secretary for the purpose of protection against terrorism.
What is a control order?
300
A philosopher who declared that God is dead.
Who was (Friedrich) Nietzsche?
300
The mysterious person to whom Shakespeare wrote his late sonnets (127-154).
Who was the dark lady?
400
An analytical term for the phenomenon where a story is told by a voice you cannot trust.
What is an unreliable narrator?
400
A writing style inspired by the visual arts rather than by the storytelling tradition.
What is Show Don't Tell?
400
A rhetorical device that exploits an audience's pleasure at recognizing the same words in different contexts.
What is repetition?
or
What is reiteration?
or
What is anaphora?
400
An analytical, philosophical, or artistic position which holds that all truth and meaning is relative to something variable - such as history, identity, or psychology.
What is relativism?
400
This sequence of Shakesperean sonnets includes sonnets 1 to 126.
Recurring themes are the transcience of beauty and the brevity of life.
The sequence takes its name from the person the sonnets are addressed to.
What is the "young man sequence"?
500
A latin word for killing a king, still used in English.
What is "regicide"?
500
A job description in transportation once held by Hemingway.
Passengers likely had mixed feelings about the service.
What is an ambulance driver?
500
The part of a metaphor that adds a new meaning to the thing it describes by identifying it with something else.
What is the vehicle?
500
A universal story told of how the world is ordered and why things have meaning.
Telling such a story is on a level above that of ordinary storytelling.
What is a meta-narrative?
500
A civil rights movement, school of philosophy, and school of criticism that may be traced back to 19th century women authors and their struggle with the Victorian patriarchy.