Poetry
What are Goblins?
Move over Cervantes! This east Asian work is often considered the first novel.
What is Genji Monogatari?
William Faulkner, The Sound and Fury
What is Macbeth?
The still-beating heart in Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart is an example of this type of literary device.
What is symbolism?
Watson.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
It's Virginia Woolf's novel about the titular main character, a renaissance man who becomes a woman. No, it's not set in Disney World.
What is Orlando?
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Hamlet
You don't have to be Hercules for your story to follow this narrative structure that was coined by Joseph Campbell.
What is the hero's journey?
Sam Gamgee
Who is Frodo Baggins?
This poet wrote works such as "Daddy" and "Mad Girl's Love Song"
Who is Plath?
This bird of prey features prominently in the title of a classic piece of detective noir fiction.
What is the falcon? (The Maltese Falcon)
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
This German word is used for novels in which the main character has a coming-of-age.
What is Bildungsroman?
Nick Carraway.
Who is Jay Gatsby?
Many of Emily Dickinson's poems can be read to the rhythm of this American folk tune.
What is The Yellow Rose of Texas?
In Old English we have the story of Beowulf. In modern English, we have this 1971 novel about his adversary.
What is Grendel?
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
What is The Tempest?
A quote from another piece of literature at the beginning of a poem or story is called this term, not to be confused with the message inscribed on a tombstone.
What is an epigram?
Jeeves.
Who is Wooster?
The couplet, a sequence of two rhyming lines, is sometimes called a _____ couplet.
What is a heroic couplet?
This trade name for MSG is also what the Garcia Girls lost in a 1991 novel by Julia Alvarez.
What is Accent?
Stephen E. Ambros, Band of Brothers
What is Henry V?
When a character contrasts with another character in a story, they are said to serve as this metallic term.
What is a foil?
Sancho Panza.
Who is Don Quixote?