Author
What author compared his wife’s waist to “the waist of an otter caught in the teeth of a tiger”?
Andre Bretón
What poetic form has 14 lines and a “turn” or a “volta”?
Sonnet
In “Free Union”, Andre Breton begins each line of the poem with:
My wife and her….
What device is he using here?
Anaphora
The desire line that tracks the progress of a character toward their goal is called…
Freytag’s Pyramid
Who wrote odes to ordinary objects, which surround us in our day to day existence, including odes for glass, for the sea, and a pineapple?
Gabriela Mistral
What poetic form uses the devices of poetry but does not follow the conventions of a poem in that it does not use enjambment and resists being broken into verse? In fact, the form produces blocks of texts…
Prose Poem
When the poem is going one direction and then, due to a change in the logic or argument, begins moving in the opposite direction, this is called a…
Turn, or a volta
What did M. Duchamp submit to a gallery of high art in New York? What was his defense for having done so?
Urinal
Duchamp raised an ordinary object to the dignity of a work of art by his preference for it as the artist whose vision embraced the ordinary and the banal
In one of the stories we read, the protagonist enters a theater and watches on the screen the story of his parents’ lives… Name the author.
Name the poetic form that uses iambic pantameter, in order to render poems that are more faithful to breathing patterns?
Hint: Shakespeare used this form for many of his plays
Blank Verse
This device is likely the most commonly associated with poetry, and it is used in poems as in everyday life to make lines and phrases more memorable.
Hint: Don’t think too hard
Rhyme
Who is Mr. Torres’ favorite author?
Jorge Luis Borges
What author wrote tales of fantastic fiction, wherein his characters often become lost in the intricate webs of labyrinths?
Jorge Luis Borges
In the “personal crises narrative”, what do we mean by crisis?
An experience by which we discover we are not who we thought we were; a moment when we notice a change in our fundamental make-up.
At about how many syllables do we run out of breath in the English language?
10
On Freytag’s Pyramid, the point at which the character begins to feel frustration at not being able to move as freely as they’d like is called the…
Complication
Who penned the book-length poem, “Sunstone”, to protest the Spanish Civil War, and raised as his supreme value, in the Surrealist sentiment, love?
Hint: He was Mexican
Octavio Paz
Probably the most difficult form to master, for the fact that it has little to no constraints or parameters. Name it.
Hint: The answer is a two-word answer
Free Verse
What device takes two things, any two things in the universe, and compares them?
Metaphor
Who are the protagonist(s) and the antagonist(s) in the short story, “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities”? Explain
P:
The speaker, Delmore Shwartz
A:
The parents/the generation that preceded Shwartz