Who said it?
“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of life into our dark world.”
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
Three quatrains (abab cdcd efef) plus a rhyming couplet
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
Writing that values nature and the imagination over reason
What is Romanticism?
A complete thought that continues from one line of poetry into the next.
What is enjambment?
His plays often have lower class characters whose antics mirror the motives and schemes of the nobles.
Who is Shakespeare?
...”me poor man, my library was dukedom large enough”
Who is Prospero?
Poetry with regular meter (generally iambic pentameter) but unrhymed lines
What is blank verse?
A work of literature presenting an idealized version of rural life
What is pastoral?
Dickens was the master of this literary device:
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...”
What is anaphora?
He writes as an ironic, omniscient narrator who is gently satirizing the manners of the middle classes.
Who is E.M. Forster?
“The snake had charmed me.”
Who is Charles Marlow?
Pairs of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter
What are heroic couplets?
A style that mixes a highly realistic story with supernatural elements
What is magical realism?
Dickinson use this kind of rhyme here:
Hope is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words-
And never stops- at all-
What is slant rhyme?
The schizophrenia, lobotomy, and institutionalization of his sister had a major influence on his writing.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
“I will die—with my hand in the hand of some nice-looking ship’s doctor, a very young one with a small blond mustache and a big silver watch.”
Who is Blanche DuBois?
Poetry with no consistent rhyme or meter
What is free verse?
Writing characterized by elements of horror, death, and/or the supernatural as well as a high degree of romanticism
What is Gothic?
Tennessee Williams uses this technique of designing props and staging to impress abstract ideas upon the audience.
What is Plastic Theater?
His narrative style is often described as ambiguous.
Who is Joseph Conrad?
“It seems to me...that you are in a muddle.”
Who is Mr. Emerson?
Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle into that good night”
What is a villanelle?
A story or poem in which abstract ideas are represented by individual characters
What is allegory?
Identify the type of sentence:
“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
What is a periodic sentence?
These two Romantic writers both created frame narratives that are still popular today.
Who are Mary Shelley and Samuel Coleridge Taylor?