Figurative
An example: He felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.
What is a simile?
The character who opposes the main character.
What is the antagonist?
An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect
What is a utopia?
The unseen poet who propels the plot in Arcadia.
Who is Lord Byron?
An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What is connotation.
An example: I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.
What is a metaphor? Also acceptable: What is an allusion?
An important secondary character who helps the protagonist grow or provides a contrast to the protagonist.
What is a foil?
Frankenstein is an example.
What is gothic or horror? Also acceptable: What is romantic?
The woman who has the whole story in Frankenstein.
Who is Margaret?
A self-contradictory statement or situation that when investigated or explained may prove to be true.
What is paradox?
An example: The biggest storms smelled like vanilla, the small ones like wet laundry.
What is personification?
The dramatic high point of a literary work.
What is the climax?
Literature that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free agent determining their own development through acts of will, often radically so.
What is existential?
His diction and syntax are as broken as the morality of his near future dystopia.
Who is the narrator of The Semplica Girl Diaries?
Language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
Examples:
cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom
What is onomatopoeia?
Repeated syntactical constructions: like father, like son.
What is parallelism?
The two artistic movements described in Arcadia.
What are romanticism and classicism?
He said it: "Is the application of logic to the human condition in and of itself self-defeating? What becomes of a chain of argument when the links are made of different metals, each with a separate frangibility?"
Who is Adrian from The Sense of an Ending?
A stanza of four lines.
What is a quatrain?
I have done this a million times.
What is hyperbole?
Another term for the climactic moment of a literary work.
What is denouement?
A nineteenth century philosophical movement emphasizing sensation and intuition, rather than rational knowledge.
What is transcendentalism?
He said it: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mold me Man?"
Who is Adam?
A dominant idea or recurring element which adds unity to an artistic composition.
What is a motif?