How to Read Lit
The significance of two characters sharing a meal.
What is a social ritual that almost always symbolizes a shared connection or "communion"?
The author of Metamorphosis
Who is Franz Kafka?
The author of ATSS
Who is Khaled Hosseini?
The subtitle of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
What is The Modern Prometheus?
The poetic equivolent to a "paragraph" in prose.
What is a stanza?
The symbolic purpose of a rainstorm.
What is a cleansing process that often represents a character’s baptism, spiritual rebirth, or deepest emotional lows?
TRICK QUESTION. It's never stated.
Name that Nana calls Miriam.
What is a "Harami"?
Real-world Victorian scientific research that served as Shelley's inspiration for the creation of the monster.
What is Galvanism?
A change in tone, perspective, or logic that often reveals the poem's deeper complexity or resolution.
What is a shift?
The significance of Geography (setting).
What is the idea that a character's physical environment mirrors their psyche, behavior, or internal failings?
The first character to suggest they "get rid" of Gregor.
Who is Grete?
Movie that Jalil promises to take Miriam to see.
What is Pinocchio?
All of the victims of Frankenstein's Monster.
Who is Henry, Elizabeth, William, Justin, and Alphonse?
The development of the speaker's identity through "clues" such as voice, behavior, and perspective
What is characterization?
The function of blindness in literature.
What is awareness of truth, or "true sight"?
A term to describes the nightmarish, illogical, and bureaucratic atmosphere in these types of stories.
What is Kafkaesque?
The symbolic meaning of the "suns" within the title.
What is the hidden beauty, strength, and power of women suppressed behind the "walls" of society?
Book which frames the Creature's understanding of his position as either Adam or Satan.
What is Paradise Lost?
The use of sensory details to evoke a specific emotional response or to reinforce a theme.
What is imagery?
The true, underlying goal of any literary quest, regardless of the character's stated objective.
What is the pursuit of self-knowledge?
The function of the apple as a symbol.
What is a representation of the mental, physical, and spiritual decay resulting from neglect by oneself and others?
The function of Babi as a character foil to Rasheed.
What is the value of education and a worldly perspective?
The function of the "sublime" throughout the novel.
What is a balm to the sins of society?
The final two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet.
What is a couplet?