Frankenstein
Dorian Gray
The Great Gatsby
Poetry
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100
Frankenstein can be classified as this kind of novel, which means a novel of letters.
What is an epistolary novel?
100
The artist behind Dorian’s portrait who is murdered by Dorian after discovering his secret.
Who is Basil Hallward?
100
This author of the novel is often considered one of the great American writers of the 20th century
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
100
John Donne used this insect as an extended metaphor for the connection between two lovers in this poem of the same name.
What is The Flea?
100
a figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing.
What is apostrophe?
100
"Those images that yet/Fresh images beget,/That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea." - "Byzantium" by W.B. Yeats
What is assonance?
100
Mr Walsh's favorite pixar film.
200
The author of the novel Frankenstein.
Who is Mary Shelley?
200
An actress who commits suicide after being rejected by Dorian for her bad acting.
Who is Sybil Vane?
200
This is Jay Gatsby's birth name.
What James Gaetz?
200
Langston Hughes was a major poet of this literary movement.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
200
A poem written on the subject of something that is lost, such a dead loved one.
What is an elegy?
200
“Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them.”
What is synecdoche?
300
Robert Walton writes letters to his sister during his exploration of this region.
What is the Arctic ?
300
Oscar Wilde was one of the champions of this artistic movement that championed surface level beauty above depth and meaning.
What is Aestheticism?
300
Gatsby’s business partner Meyer Wolfsheim was most known for this illegal exploit.
Fixing the World Series
What is Fixing the World Series?
300
John Keats’ poem “To Autumn” can be classified as this, a poem often on high praise of its subject.
What is an Ode?
300
a character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character.
What is a foil?
300
Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O anything, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!
What is oxymoron?
400
The Creatures discovers three books which teach him to read, which included Milton’s Paradise Lost, Plutarch’s Lives and this book about a young man caught in a love triangle.
What is The Sorrows of Werther?
400
The novel functions as a criticism of the morality of this time period.
What is the Victorian Age?
400
A primamry symbol throughout the novel used to illustrate the judgement of god upon the crumbling American Morality.
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What are the eyes of Dr. TJ Eckleburg?
400
Shakespeare wrote 154 of these fourteen line poems.
What are Sonnets?
400
a pause in a line that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech rather than meter.
What is caesura?
400
“…and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you …”
What is metaphor?
500
Frankenstein is often classified as this kind of novel, a literary movement celebrating individuality and nature.
What is Romanticism?
500
A gift from Lord Henry that leads Dorian Gray to even deeper levels of immorality?
What is the yellow book?
500
F. Scott Fitzgerald counted himself among this group of American artist and writers that became frustrated with America after World War I and migrated to Paris.
What is The Lost Generation?
500
The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock brings with an excerpt from this epic poem about a man’s descent into the underworld.
What is Dante’s Inferno?
500
a Latin phrase denoting the literary and artistic narrative technique wherein the relation of a story begins either at the mid-point or at the conclusion, rather than at the beginning,
What is in media res?
500
“A Quietness distilled
As Twilight long begun,
Or Nature spending with herself
Sequestered Afternoon—
What is consonance?