1984
This supreme ruler of Oceania is constantly watching you from posters and telescreens.
Answer: Who is Big Brother?
He is the only main character who refuses to conform and never turns into a rhinoceros.
Answer: Who is Bérenger?
Jerry tells a long, disturbing story about his attempts to poison this aggressive animal owned by his landlady.
Answer: What is a dog?
This is the literal vehicle that Death uses to pick up the speaker for her journey.
Answer: What is a carriage?
Like something, or As something
What is a simile?
Winston's ultimate breaking point occurs in this dreaded chamber, which contains a prisoner's worst nightmare.
Answer: What is Room 101?
This French-Romanian playwright wrote Rhinoceros to process his own experiences with rising extremism.
Answer: Who is Eugène Ionesco?
Jerry's ultimate fate occurs when he intentionally throws himself onto this object held by Peter.
Answer: What is a knife?
The narrator is mourning the loss of this maiden, whom the angels named.
Answer: Who is Lenore?
An endless journey that goes in circles with no end goal.
What is a rat race?
According to the book, the three social classes that have always existed throughout human history are defined simply by these three words.
Answer: What are the High, the Middle, and the Low?
In the play's final moments, Bérenger looks in the mirror and experiences this specific form of internal crisis regarding his own identity.
Answer: What is an existential crisis?
Jerry's highly animated, descriptive monologues are written in this specific theatrical style, common in the Theatre of the Absurd.
Answer: What is a dramatic monologue?
This 19th-century American poet wrote "My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun" alongside over 1,700 other poems.
Answer: Who is Emily Dickinson?
A world where everyone is under surveillance
What is dystopia?
Winston’s intense fear of rats—which ultimately breaks him—stems from a traumatic childhood memory where he stole this specific rationed item from his starving mother and sister.
Answer: What is chocolate?
In Act II, when Bérenger visits Jean's apartment, Jean repeatedly complains of a severe headache and points to this specific physical symptom growing on his forehead.
Answer: What is a bump / small horn?
This specific chemical ingredient, bought at a hardware store for fifty cents, is what Jerry mixes into a hamburger patty to give to the landlady's dog.
Answer: What is rat poison?
What physical limitation prevents the speaker from looking down the first path as far as it goes?
Answer: It bends in the undergrowth.
A narrative style or story where characters, objects, and actions represent broader, abstract political, moral, or historical meanings.
Answer: What is an allegory?
Winston suffers from this painful, chronic physical ailment above his right ankle, which inflames whenever he is stressed or forced to do physical jerks.
Answer: What is a varicose ulcer?
Near the end of the play, Daisy and Bérenger's relationship completely falls apart when they realize they can no longer communicate because Daisy begins to interpret the rhinos' trumpeting as this specific art form.
Answer: What is music / singing?
After Jerry drops the knife on the ground and challenges Peter to defend his bench, Peter's immediate reaction is to pick it up out of this specific emotion.
Answer: What is panic / self-defense
Which poem concludes with this specific, encouraging instruction to the viewer, serving as a metaphor for uncovering the erased history of women.
What is "This Photograph of me"?