Beloved
This single word/name was carved into the pink tombstone.
What is Beloved"
This act forced all citizens to cooperate with capturing escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
After throwing a vase, Edna tries to ruin this tolken by stamping it into the floor.
What is her wedding ring?
Before waking up as a bug, Gregor Samsa worked as this.
What is a traveling salesman?
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line or stanza in poetry.
What is enjambment?
This is the number of Pauls who were at Sweethome.
What is THREE?
In Yoruban (Western African) culture, "abiku" can roughly translate to what?
What is "being born to die" or "spirit children"?
Bookending the setting of the novel, where does Edna has a spiritual awakening and her literal death?
What is the sea (or the water)?
Initially the most caring and close to Gregor, this character ends up saying, "we must try to get rid of it!"
Who is Grete?
A character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) to highlight particular qualities.
What is a foil?
Denver is named after whom?
Who is Amy Denver, the white woman/indentured servant who helped Sethe deliver Denver?
This style of writing takes place in an otherwise normal world, except that characters accept the supernatural as normal.
What is magical realism?
The novel metaphorically opens with a caged parrot. In what other setting do we see the bird motif?
What is at Edna's "pigeon house"?
Just as Morrison did with Beloved, Kafka tells his story, separated into this many parts:
What is three?
Repetition of words at the beginning of successive lines or clauses.
What is anaphora?
Part of Morrison's inspiration for her book was the real life story of this woman.
Who is Margaret Garner?
In Foster's How to Read Literature like a professor, what two adjectives does he give to acts of violence in literature?
intimate and personal
Translating to "if you knew," "Si tu savais" is tellingly sung by which character in the novella?
Who is Robert Le Brun? (Okay answer is also Who is Victor Le Brun?)
This (often Biblically symbolic) item gets lodged into Gregor's back.
What is an apple?
A seemingly contradictory statement that appears reveals a deeper truth.
What is paradox?
Who is Halle?
The names of Seth(e), the Pauls, Stamp's formerly being Joshua as well as the presence of the four horseman, the "tree of knowledge," and the sacrifice are all allusions to what?
The Bible
At what traditionally "masculine" setting does Edna first meet Alcee Arobin?
What is the racetrack?
In an unexpected narrative structure, the actual transformation of Gregor to bug takes place when in the novel?
What is at the beginning or in part one?
The implied or emotional meaning of a word, beyond its literal definition.
What is connotation?