Literature
Critical Theories
Terminology
Multi-Media
Historical Trivia
400
This poem discusses assimilation and the importance of one's native language.
What is "Search for my Tongue" by Sujata Bhat.
400
Edward Said was a foundational thinker of this theoretical framework.
What is Postcolonialism?
400
This term is used when discussing the geographical location or time period a piece of writing takes place.
What is a "setting"?
400
This famous fictional archeologist is the namesake for a film franchise where he goes on adventures to secure historical artifacts and punch Nazis.
Who is Indiana Jones?
400
This famous vehicle was known as "The People's Car" and was used in the performance art piece "Trans-Fixed" by Chris Burden.
What is the Volkswagen Beetle?
800
This author uses black and white imagery in their graphic novel Persepolis to discuss the bleak world she lived in during the Islamic Revolution of Iran.
Who is Marjane Satrapi?
800
These two theorists are seen as the founders of Marxism.
Who is Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
800
This term is used for a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
What is an "allegory"?
800
This graphic short story by Lynda Barry discusses coming to terms with perfectionism and what makes something good.
What is "Two Questions"?
800
"Beyonce had of the best videos of all time.", but this artist was the actual recipient of the VMA for Best Female Video in 2009.
Who is Taylor Swift (Anyways...ew)?
1200
Sherman Alexie, in his poem, "Evolution" uses the image of this historical figure to discuss the devaluing of Native American/American Indian culture.
Who is "Buffalo Bill"?
1200
This theoretical framework is broken up into waves to discuss the historical importance of each era.
"What is feminism" or "feminist criticism"?
1200
This term is used for a character that grows and changes over the course of the story.
What is a "dynamic character" or "round character"?
1200
This director is known for his horror films that discuss the everyday concerns of the Black community in America.
Who is Jordan Peele?
1200
This is where the writer Franz Kafka is from.
What is the Czech Republic?
1600
In her essay "Why I Write," Joan Didion argues that images can do this if you pay close enough attention to them.
What is "shimmer"?
1600
This theoretical framework could aid in analyzing the political cartoon below:
What is postcolonialism?
1600
In the short story, "Everyday Use," Alice Walker uses this type of narration style.
What is "first-person narration" or "first-person point of view"?
1600
In the graphic novel Maus, by Art Spiegelman, Spiegelman does interviews with this person and their experiences during the Holocaust.
Who is Vladek (Spiegelman's father)?
1600
Langston Hughes, the author of "Harlem" and "Ballad of the Landlord" was a prominent figure in this period in American history, which saw a blossoming of African American culture, specifically in the creative arts.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
2000
The short story "A Crossbreed [A Sport]" by this author, has a narrator that discusses paternal trauma and mental health through an animal that is half-kitten and half-lamb.
Who is "Franz Kafka"?
2000
Her groundbreaking 1990 book Gender Trouble was one of the first texts to compare the sexual habits of the natural world to that of constructed sexual norms in humans.
Who is Judith Butler?
2000
This form of unrhymed Japanese poetry contains three sections with a total of 17 syllables arranged in a 5-7-5 pattern.
What is a "Haiku"?
2000
This musical about a group of animals that sing about being in a death cult was the longest-running show until The Phantom of the Opera took its spot in 2006
What is Cats?
2000
This revolutionary invention turned the art world on its head around the turn of the 20th century.
What is the camera?