Short Story
A name for stories not entirely factual, but at least partially shaped, made up, imagined.
What is Fiction?
A group of lines forming a unit, separated by a space.
What is a stanza?
The standard format for EGL 102 students to publish their scholarly papers using a Works Cited Page.
What is MLA format?
An ancient Greek writer of tragedy, including the famous Oedipus Trilogy; Oedipus Tyrannos, Oedipus The King, and Oedipus at Colonus.
Who is Sophocles?
He was passed over for a promotion and Cassio got the job as lieutenant.
Who is Iago?
A better term than hero, for it may apply equally well to a central character who is not especially brave or virtuous.
Who is the Protagonist?
A figure of speech using a word such as "like" or "as" to compare seemingly unlike things.
What is a simile?
This is written in one paragraph and its main purpose is to sum up the arguments of the essay, which the author revealed in the topic sentences of the body paragraphs. It summarizes the evidence in support for the thesis statement of the essay and if proved restates this statement.
What is the Conclusion?
The meaning of Oedipus, pointing to the injury sustained in the title character's infancy, when his ankles were pinioned together like a goat's.
What is "swollen foot" or "club-foot"?
The Duke sends for Othello because he thought Barbantio's daughter forced into marrying Othello under this.
What is bewitched?
John Updike's "A & P" is an example of this type of narration.
What is first person narrations?
A meter in poetry that refers to a line of five iambic feet with two beats per foot.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
Ng, David. "Captain' is Still America's Hero." Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2014, p. D6. ProQuest Newstand, search.proquest.com/docview/880060078?accountid=62865 is an example of what type of citation?
What is a Newspaper?
The play begins with Creon’s return from the oracle at Delphi, where he has learned that the plague will be lifted if Thebes banishes the man who killed this former king?
Who is Laius?
Iago tells Roderigo to put "this" in his purse in order to get over Desdemona.
What is Money?
In this short story, the narrator says, "This is nature" and his viewpoint on nature grows and changes during his adventures.
What is "Greasy Lake"?
In this type of sonnet, the rimes cohere in four clusters: a b a b, c d c d, e f e f, g g.
What is an English Sonnet or Shakespearean Sonnet?
Your Research Essay in which you took 2 poems and put them side-by-side and pointed out their similarities and differences is an example of this type of Analysis.
What is a Comparison and Contrast Analysis?
The answer to the Sphinx's Riddle, "What goes on four feet in the morning,
two feet at noon,
and three feet in the evening?"
What is " a man" or "a human"?
The purpose of Iago's plan.
What is to seek revenge?
In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's, "The Yellow Wallpaper", several times at the beginning of the story, the narrator says such things as, "What is one to do?" and "What can one do?" in order to evoke the reader this.
What is sympathy?
An American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, columnist and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
This is a pre-writing technique that works especially well for visual thinkers in which you build a diagram to help you explore the relationships among your ideas.
What is Clustering?
Who is Tiresias?
Iago told (and lied) to Montano and told him that Cassio was this.
What is an alcoholic?