Characters
Oscar Wilde
Themes
Language
Plot
100

The painter of the portrait of Dorian Gray

Who is Basil Hallward?

100

The year Oscar Wilde died

When is 1900?

100

One of the themes of the novel

What is "Mortality of Beauty and Youth". "Surfaces, Objects and Appearances", "Art and the Imitation of Life", or "Influence"?

100

The style of Oscar Wilde's novel

What is the purpose of aestheticism?

100

Basil's ____ is revealed too much in the painting

What is feeling?

200

Didn't age until the end of the book

Who is Dorian Gray?

200

The age Oscar Wilde was when he died

What is 46?

200

Characters' fates and identities are decided by ___

What is their appearance?

200

The kind of language used to effect aestheticism 

What is flowery/descriptive language?

200

The reason Dorian is able to stay forever young

What is pledged his soul so the painting could age instead?

300

The actress that Dorian fell in love with

Who is Sibyl Vane?

300

The reason for Oscar Wilde's imprisonment

What is sodomy with another man?

300

Dangerous when taken too seriously or believed too deeply

What is art?

300

The use of ____ helps make Wilde's language vivid and humorous 

What is epigrams?

300

The reason why Sibyl committed suicide and why it happened

What is Dorian broke off his engagement with her and because of her bad acting?

400

The vengeful brother that tried to kill Dorian

Who is James Vane?

400

One of the literary movements he was involved with

What is Aesthetic Movement or Decadent Movement?

400

"All art _ ___ ____" 

What is "is quite useless"? 

400

The choice of ____ reflects Wilde’s appreciation of a beauty, thus to reveal his sincere pursuit of beauty in life

What is diction?

400

The killer of Basil, and in this manner

Who is Dorian Gray and with a knife in a gruesome manner?

500

The doctor that got rid of Basil's body

Who is Alan Campbell?

500

The subject Oscar Wilde was great at

What is Classics?

500

"In this way that novel suggests that while mortality will always ___ beauty and youth..."

What is destroy?

500

"___ are typical of Wilde's language, which help him expose the inner world of the characters, and reveal his own aesthetic pursuit of beauty as well"

What is paradoxes?


500

Killed by the hunting party

Who is James Vane?