That Author with a Long Name
Stories that are Short
Rhyme & Postmodern Quality
How is it Uncanny?
Symbolic Symbols and Allegorical Allusions
100

Marquez was heavily influenced by this literary work

The Metamorphosis

100

Name either of the two main characters in A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Pelayo and Elisenda

100

the action or process of making or becoming greater in size or amount and the literary technique that breaks the details of a story and scatters them throughout

augmentation and fragmentation

100

the lady who looks like a tarantula

experience of a foreign body within oneself

100

a bird's wings

freedom

200

Marquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature in this year

1982

200

The family initially hides the angel here

The chicken coop

200

the condition of being illegitimate and the genre of fictional narrative that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value

bastadism and absurdism

200

the angel being locked away from view, only to be discovered by the people

something that is intended to remain secret now revealed

200

a visitor piercing the angel is an allusion to when this biblical character was pierced by a spear

Jesus

300

Marquez was born in this country

Colombia

300

This steals the attention away from the angel (DAILY DOUBLE)

The tarantula-lady

300

a theory of international relations established in the post-World War II era that seeks to explain international politics as a result of human nature and literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy

classical realism and magical realism

300

the light being viewed as water, something it is not

commingling of the familiar and the strange

300

the angel putting up with abuse and torture is an allusion to the story of this biblical man

Job

400

Marquez died in this year

2014

400

Name one of the supposed miracles that the Angel performed on others

cured Elisenda’s child, let a blind man walk again, or helped someone almost win the lottery

400

a type of cancer that begins in germ cells (sperm or eggs) that occurs most often in the ovaries and testicles and comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss

sac tumor and black humor

400

the angel viewed as an old man, and creature with wings (DAILY DOUBLE)

commingling of the familiar and the strange

400

the Angel's cage symbolizes this

societal control

500

This person called Marquez “the greatest Colombian who ever lived"

Juan Manuel Santos

500

Elisenda is chopping this root vegetable when the Angel starts to fly

Onions

500

a combination of statements, ideas, or features of a situation that are opposed to one another and type of fiction in which the author alludes to the artificiality of a work by departing from traditional narrative techniques

contradiction and metafiction

500

the tarantula lady eating meatballs

commingling of the familiar and the stange

500

When Father Gonzaga arrives to give his verdict on whether or not it really is an angel, he warns the visitors that it may be a trick of the devil.  Similarly, when Jesus healed a man who was supposedly possessed by a demon, he was accused of using the power of this man, the prince of demons

Beelzebub