The Metamorphosis
This traveling salesman wakes up one morning to find he has transformed into an insect.
Gregor Samsa
This precocious child in “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” chats with Seymour Glass on the beach.
Sybil Carpenter
This mysterious figure is the addressee of many early sonnets, often praised for beauty and virtue.
the Fair Youth
This device occurs when the audience knows something the characters do not.
dramatic irony
From “Lady Lazarus”:
Dying / Is an art, like everything else. / I do it __________ well.
exceptionally
The protagonist’s transformation forces this family member to take on a job and new responsibilities.
Grete, his sister
In “Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut,” this is the name of Eloise’s lost love, whose memory haunts her.
Walt
Sonnets 1-17 often urge the listener to do this in order to preserve his beauty.
procreate
This direct comparison equates one thing with another without using “like” or “as.”
metaphor
IB stands for this:
International ___________
Baccalaureate
The protagonist is injured when his father throws these at him.
apples
This story features a young boy named Lionel, who repeatedly says “I’m not going to say it.”
Down at the Dinghy
Sonnet 18 famously begins with a comparison to this season.
summer
This device repeated consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.
alliteration
James _________, author of ‘Giovanni’s Room’
Baldwin
The protagonist’s fear of this family member echoes Kafka’s real-life relationship with his.
father
In “Just Before the War with the Eskimos,” this character eats a chicken sandwich while bleeding from a cut.
Franklin
Shakespearean sonnets are composed of three quatrains and one of these.
rhyming couplet
This device uses an object, action, or image to represent a deeper meaning.
symbolism
This is the title of a Madonna music video and also a traditional music and dance style from Cape Verde that features drumming, call-and-response singing, and women seated in a circle, historically linked to resistance.
Batuka
This symbolizes the protagonist’s last attachment to his former life and desires. He clings to it when his furniture is being removed.
the picture of the woman in fur
This story centres on a young prodigy named Teddy McArdle.
"Teddy"
The speaker in Sonnet 130 loves to hear his mistress speak, but knows that this has a far more pleasing sound.
music
This device hints at events that will occur later in a narrative.
foreshadowing
This is the original language of Henrik Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House.’
Norwegian