Lit Like a Prof
Literary Terms Examples
Characters
Novels
Name the Archetype
100
When in doubt....it's from
Shakespeare
100
"If I've told you once, I've told you a million times..."
What is hyperbole
100
Hypocrital magistrate.
Judge Pyncheon
100
Burned to increase profits
Fruite
100
The moment an individual comes into maturity.
Initiation
200
Don't just read with your
Eyes
200
"Death, be not proud."
What is apostrophe.
200
Meddling, mixed up "fish-monger"
Polonius
200
Tree of ripening truth
Pear
200
A person's descent from from a higher to a lower state.
Fall
300
It's only baptism if...
He/She comes back up!
300
"Hamlet might want the crown!"
Metonymy
300
Romantic boxer
Robert Cohn
300
Grete's instrument of choice
Violin
300
There is no remedy....
Unhealable wound
400
Flight is....
Freedom.
400
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."
Understatement
400
King with an inferiority complex and three dead family members
Creon
400
Meurault finds peace here.
Jail cell
400
Our dark side...as in "Batman."
Shadow
500
Most effective "made-up" illness
Fever
500
The wind gently caressed her face.
Personification
500
Non-communicant cipher
Bartelby
500
She doesn't go here....though her lover insists!
Nunnery
500
The divine couple
Syzygy