"I don't like you sucking around, bothering our citizens, Lebowski. I don't like your jerk-off name. I don't like your jerk-off face. I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off."
What is anaphora?
100
One type of poetry is written without regular rhyme or meter, the other is written with regular meter but no rhyme scheme.
What is the difference between free verse and blank verse?
100
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759n1767)
What is first person narrator?
100
A group of actors that explain the the action of the play, but are not part of the play?
"You are as good as a . . ., my Lord Hamlet."
What is chorus?
100
Some say pop, some say soda, some say coke.
What is a colloquialism?
200
"Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again . . .."
(Paul Simon, "The Sounds of Silence")
What is apostrophe?
200
Both of these types of poems are concern with human response to death.
What are elegy and lament?
200
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. - Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
What is the third person narrator?
200
Nicholas Nickleby, Romeo, Odysseus, Oedipus, Holden Caulfield
What are heroes?
200
The difference between what a word means literally and what it has come to mean in a cultural context.
What is connotation and denotation?
300
"Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light."
(Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night")
What is assonance?
300
The technique of continuing a thought from one line to the next in poetry as in the following example.:
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we lovd? Were we not weand till then?
(John Donne, The Good-morrow)
What is enjambment?
300
The monologue captures the ideas and thoughts of the character prior to any logical connection to what is going on in the story.
One has to do with the words an author uses and one has to do with the structure and arrangement of those words.
What are diction and syntax?
400
Holden Caulfield
What is an example of an antihero?
400
It usually sets up an analogy between one entity’s spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world and sometimes controls the whole structure of the poem. The comparison is unusual and unexpected, yet successful.
What is a metaphysical conceit?
400
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo. - James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
What is an unreliable narrator?
400
love conquers all, good vs. evil, rags to riches
What are themes?
400
Words that create harsh, awkward sounds.
What is cacophony?
500
Calling your car "Betty" is personification, but believing it won't start because it's in a bad mood is . . .
What is anthropomorphism?
500
"The Illiad"
What is an example of an epic poem?
500
You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
What is second person narration?
500
In a traditional five act play, it usually occurs somewhere during act three.