Terms
any court poet
What is Courtly Makers?
Sara Teasdale
What is "Love Songs"?
a device in which indirectness replaces directness of statement, usually in an effort to avoid offensiveness
What is Euphemism?
Walton's comment that "some feelings...beat even in these rugged bosoms" is an example of
What is Metonymy?
This character, _______________, exhibits a bit of disenchantment with her life by voicing a desire to "go where people don't speak English."
Who is Mrs. Gibbs?
the process by which an unhealthy emotional state produced by an imbalance of feelings is corrected and emotional health restored
What is Catharsis?
Philip Roth
What is "Goodbye, Columbus; Portnoy's Complaint; The Dying Animal; American Pastoral"?
harsh and inharmonious sounds; a marked breaking of the music of poetry, which may be intentional, as it often is in Browning and Hardy
What is Dissonance?
significant symbol is included in the scene where Victor finally decides to destroy the female creature
What is a Window?
This play was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for drama in...
1938
a wailing song sung at a funeral or in commemoration of death; a short lyric of lamentation
What is Dirge?
Intruder in the Dust; The Reivers; The Sound and the Fury; Light in August
Who is William Faulkner?
the treatment of abstractions as concrete things; the treatment of ideas as though they had concrete form; "Truth is a deep well."; "Thoughts sink into the sea of forgetfulness..."
What is Reification?
Victor had enjoyed an idyllic childhood, being raised in
What is Switzerland?
"Every child born into the world is nature's attempt to make a perfect human being" is pronounced by...
Who is the Stage Manager?
any person who through contrast underscores the distinctive characteristics of another
What is Foil?
the Chilean poet, aspirant to the Chilean presidency, and recipient of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature
from the Greek root for feeling; the quality in art and literature that stimulates pity, tenderness, or sorrow
What is Pathos?
Subject Professor M. Krempe teaches
What is Natural Philosophy?
Included in the time capsule is...
What is "The New York Times, the Sentinel, the U.S. Constitution, and Our Town (among others). "?
a form of tragedy made popular on the Elizabethan stage by Thomas Kyd and William Shakespeare
What is Revenge Tragedy?
Neon Vernacular
Who is Yusef Komunyakaa?
instructiveness in a work, one purpose of which is to give guidance, particularly in moral, ethical, or religious matters
What is Didacticism?
Where does the creature tell Victor that he and his companion creature will live?
What is South America?
In Act II, the Town's newspaper is delivered by...
Who is Si Crowell?