Shakespeare
What is the typical rhyme scheme for Sonnets?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Who was the British queen in "The Victorian Age"
Who is Queen Victoria
This writer questions whether it is even possible to tell a completely true story about war.
Who is Tim O’Brien?
In Fight Club, this postmodern feature is shown through the narrator’s unstable identity, disrupted timeline, and the breakdown of a single coherent reality.
What is fragmentation?
This term describes the unequal distribution of money, resources, and opportunities in a society like the United States.
What is inequality?
What is the function of blank verse and couplets?
Blank verse is verse without rhyme, but with five stresses in each line. This is called iambic pentameter. Each line usually has a natural rhythm.
Heroic couplets consist of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter. They are often used:
Where are Shoaib and Mirza from? (From the first assignment we did in the course)
Shoaib is from Pakistan and Mirza is from India
This poem by Wilfred Owen describes the tragic and youthful loss of soldiers in World War I.
What is “Anthem for a Doomed Youth”?
In Fight Club, this narrative perspective allows the audience to experience events ONLY through the main character’s thoughts and perceptions.
What is first-person limited narration?
The analytical fiction term that describes how Starr grows up in an area, which contrasts sharply with her wealthy school district.
What is setting?
What is the typical metre of a sonnet? Elaborate your answer.
Iambic pentameter means each line has 10 syllables arranged in five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables.
This term describes English as a shared language used between people with different native languages
What is a lingua franca?
This term refers to how a text or media report is influenced by a particular point of view, often shaping how war is presented to the audience.
What is bias? (To some extends even propaganda)
This literary movement is characterized by fragmented narratives, unreliable narrators, irony, and questioning of reality and truth.
What is postmodernism?
In President Biden’s speech, this refers to his use of credibility, logic, and emotion to convince the audience.
What are ethos, logos, and pathos?
Who was Shakespeare inspired by?
Francesco Petrarch
This was Gandhi’s method of peaceful protest against British rule in India
What is non-violent resistance?
In Jessie Pope’s “The Call,” this is the idea expressed through language that praises fighting for your country and presents it as something noble and desirable.
What is patriotism?
This narrative model used in film analysis breaks a story into stages like exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution
What is the point-plot model?
This documentary examines how wealth is concentrated among a small elite, especially along Park Avenue in New York
What is “Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream”?
What did the Elizabethans call the divine order in which everything in the universe had its fixed place?
What is “The Chain of Being”
This speech by Jawaharlal Nehru celebrated India’s independence in 1947
What is “Tryst With Destiny”
This describes how different news sources (e.g. TASS and Kyiv Independent) present the same war using different language, emphasis, and perspectives to influence interpretation.
What is media framing (and propaganda in war reporting)?
In Fight Club, this psychological condition is revealed to explain the relationship between the narrator and Tyler Durden
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (split personality)?
In "The Hate U Give", this conflict arises from Starr’s experience of living between two very different social worlds shaped by race and class inequality
What is code-switching / dual identity?