Quotes
"The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king"
What is Hamlet?
Widely recognized as the greatest English writer.
Who is William Shakespeare?
A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables.
What is haiku?
A person, place, or thing that represents another thing.
What is a symbol?
Villain in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Who is Claudius?
"Our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls."
What is A Doll's House?
Writer of Fences.
Who is August Wilson?
What is rhyme scheme?
A reference to another text, person, or entity external to the work.
What is allusion?
Who is Rose?
"He spoke in a simple lilting voice, exactly as if he was reciting the words to a song. His smile assured her that everything was fine."
What is "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
Writer of the short story "Puppy."
Who is George Saunders?
A poem written about or for a specific real occasion.
What is an occasional poem?
The blind man who comes to dinner in Raymond Carver's "Cathedral."
Who is Robert?
"Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner."
What is Fences?
Author of "The Birth-Mark."
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
The recurring pattern of stresses and pauses in a poem.
What is rhythm?
Also called "blank verse."
What is unrhymed iambic pentameter?
The character in Trifles who is suspected of murdering her husband but never appears onstage.
Who is Mrs. Wright?
"Come now, child, adjust your eyes, for sight / Is here a lesser sense."
What is "Hades Welcomes His Bride"?
Birthplace of William Shakespeare.
What is Stratford-upon-Avon?
A poem form that has no rhyme scheme or meter.
What is free verse?
The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in a sequence of words.
What is assonance?
Narrator of Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado."
Who is Montresor?