Distinguishing Authors
This author almost never names their central characters
Haruki Murakami
This text begins with the protagonist's funeral
The Death of Ivan Illych
In the world of "The Stranger", this (give any example) textual moment reveals the unequal society of colonized Algeria.
[teacher discretion]
A housewife creates a life for herself, when she realizes that she doesn't need to do this anymore.
Sleep
Puck transforms Bottom into this as a joke/prank that drives the faerie plot forward
a donkey head!
This author regularly used iambic pentameter.
Shakespeare
In this text, the narrator copes with her cousin's murder and all the feelings that arise from it.
"Sabrina and Corina"
This text has two settings: one within a rigid society and one outside of society's rules and gaze.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
This is 'not a luxury', and can lead to greater empowerment of self through emotional expression
poetry
or, the arts
This was the name of Sierra's sugar baby.
Miranda
This author's narrators are typically young women
Kali Fajardo Anstine
her silence
An ice cream shop refused to serve her Black family.
(and teacher discretion)
A character decides to leave their spouse while on a journey to buy this.
lederhosen
This is the specific job is done by the woman in The Dancing Dwarf when the narrator goes to see/meet her
attaching toenails
Much of this author's writing uses simple, uncomplicated syntax - except when describing the natural world.
Albert Camus (in "The Stranger", at least)
On a literal level, a green monster is destroyed, but on a figurative level...
(identify a potential interpretation of this text)
teacher discretion
These two characters chose to elope rather than be parted, according to the law of Athens.
(yes, you do have to get the exact names right)
Hermia and Lysander
This small action provokes Ivan Illych's transformative realization before dying
his son kisses his hand
When he was a child, Ivan Illych was considered to be this by his family (in contrast to his siblings)
phenix de la famille!
This author's use of a third person omniscient narrator allows the reader to see past that character's 'performance' for society.
Leo Tolstoy
Meursault's realizes this about the guillotine once in prison.
- provide a literal realization and its figurative meaning
figurative: the enormity of death in our minds vs the daily reality of it / the 'approachability' of death and dying [teacher discretion]
An example of society's hierarchy seen in Kali Fajardo Anstine's work
--> provide a specific textual example
[teacher discretion]
While in jail, Meursault looks at himself in this object and realizes what?
"That day, after the guard had left, I looked at myself in my tin plate. My reflection seemed to remain serious even though I was trying to smile at it."
The college Lorde taught at / featured in the text "Difference and Survival"?
Hunter