Shakespeare
Most of Shakespeare's poetry and plays were written in this metrical form.
What is iambic pentameter?
"For dirt and age, as prosperous I may be, Are mighty wardens over chastity. Nevertheless, since I know your delight, I'll satisfy your wordly appetite."
What is rhyme?
This story is about a group of strangers traveling together to go pray.
What is The Canterbury Tales?
An intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in New York, spanning the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This is a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology and can be a color, a character, or an object.
What is an archetype?
Sonnet 18 features this immortal comparison, Shall I compare thee to a ...?
What is summer's day?
"he grabbed her in his arm and showered her with a thousand kisses."
What is hyperbole?
This dude is a dragon slayer, a beast, and affectionately known as a bear.
Who is Beowulf?
A Native American woman notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.
Who is Pocahontas?
This Norman invader took over England after the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
Who is William the Conqueror?
Shakespeare's famous investor.
Who is King James?
"The rest of all this tale, if you would hear, Read Ovid: in his book does it appear."
What is allusion?
We still don't know why he had to go, but he did, and we now know don't eat eel for dinner.
Who is Lord Randall?
"Well, the word got around, they said, 'This kid is insane, man.' / Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland. / Get your education, don’t forget from whence you came, / And the world's gonna know your name. What’s your name, man?"
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Kohlberg's theory posits that individuals progress through six distinct stages of moral reasoning, categorized into three levels, as they develop their understanding of right and wrong.
What is moral development?
This character says, "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Who is Macbeth?
“And al day after hidde him as an oule;”
What is simile?
He may or may not have been insane, but he sure could draw and write some pretty depressing poetry with a binary side.
Who is William Blake?
A type of literary genre involving the written autobiographical accounts of Africans in Great Britain and its colonies, including the later United States, Canada, and Caribbean nations.
What is slave narratives?
At the end of The Crucible, this character says, "How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"
Who is John Proctor?
This sonnet states "When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,I all alone beweep my outcast state,And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,And look upon myself and curse my fate:"
What is "Sonnet 29"?
"And certainly, if there were no seed sown,Virginity, where then should it be grown?"
What is symbolism?
These guys should have stayed at the bar in this tale.
What is The Pardoner's Tale?
An idealistic philosophical and social movement which developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism.
What is Transcendentalism?
This sermon quotes "There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God."
What is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?"