Hamlet
According to Hamlet, this person is an "incestuous, murderous, damned Dane."
Who is King Claudius?
This person was both an inspiration to her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and to Shigeru Miyamoto, who used her first name for the video game character he co-created.
Who is Zelda Fitzgerald?
Example: you're as cold as ice!
What is a simile?
This term can be used to describe any campaign against someone with unpopular ideas, it was pretty literal in Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
What is a witch hunt?
This is Miss Awbrey's favorite author ever. He's also on the fridge!
Who is Kurt Vonnegut?
There's rumor that Shakespeare himself played this character, who first appears in Act I with an important message for Hamlet, in the original production of the play.
Who is the ghost of King Hamlet?
This wealthy mentor of Jay Gatsby's was probably killed by Ella Kaye.
Who is Dan Cody?
Examples: the ear of corn, the emblem of Washington, etc.
What is a symbol?
The Crucible follows members of this Christian group, who believed that the Church of England was not sufficiently pure.
What are Puritans?
Originally published in Spanish as Cien Años de Soledad, this book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a mutigenerational, magical realist epic following the Buendia family in the fictional city of Macondo.
What is One Hundred Years of Solitude?
In 1966, Tom Stoppard wrote an existentialist comedy about this pair of largely offstage characters.
Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
Jay Gatsby may live in New York, but Jimmy Gatz comes from this two-word state, also home to Fargo, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and not much else.
What is North Dakota?
Examples: sci-fi, fantasy, horror
What is genre?
"Op-ed" is a shorted form of this phrase.
What is "opposite the editorial page"?
Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me are among the many excellent movies based on this author's works.
Who is Stephen King?
The titular character of the comic series Y: the Last Man, which follows our male hero through a world in which (almost) all men have mysteriously died, is named after this fellow of infinite jest.
Who is Yorick?
"For a transitory enchanted moment, man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to" this.
What is "his capacity for wonder"?
Repeating symbols or themes like the green light or the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg.
What is a motif?
Kurt Vonnegut emphasizing his credentials as a veteran, father, and author in his open letter about book banning is an example of this rhetorical technique.
What is ethos?
A dentist might like the title of this book by Zadie Smith.
What is White Teeth?
Eliot Rosewater pretends to be Hamlet while writing a letter to his wife in the novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, written by this excellent Indianapolis author of sci-fi and anti-war novels.
Who is Kurt Vonnegut?
This original title for The Great Gatsby comes from a Roman legend about a freed slave who throws elaborate parties.
What is Trimalchio?
This is basically a fancy word for a reference.
What is an allusion?
This senator led the charge to root out American communists in government, education, and entertainment that inspired Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
It's actually the name of the doctor.
What is Frankenstein?