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Who wrote this?
Horror
India and imperialism
The American Dream
Literary terms
100
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills
Who is William Wordsworth
100
The main character of 'Sleepy Hollow'
Who is Ichabod Crane
100
British rule in India.
What is ca. 1858-1947
100
Year of the Declaration of Independence
What is 1776?
100
Using parts of other works e.g. the Bible, Shakespeare, Etc.
What is allusion?
200
For all averred I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow.
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge
200
19th century American writer of horror.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe? (1809-1849)
200
Wrote the short story 'Lispeth'
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
200
In 1773 this incident demonstrated fierce resistance against the British Empire
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
Using the vocabulary of one area to describe actions in another.
What is a metaphor?
300
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies
Who is George Gordon Byron
300
City where 'The Man Who Loved Flowers' is set.
What is New York?
300
Expressed critical thoughts on the empire through e.g 'Burmese Days'
Who is George Orwell?
300
The first to become president of the USA in 1789
Who is George Washington?
300
Comparing two things by using ‘like’ and ‘as’.
What is a simile?
400
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Who is Jane Austen
400
Event that frames Lovecraft's 'Dagon'
What is WW1
400
In 1876 Queen Victoria took this title
What is Empress of India?
400
Name of ship that brought the first pilgrims to Massachusetts in 1620
What is the Mayflower?
400
Giving human qualities or emotions to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
500
One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life.
Who is Mary Shelley
500
Famous quotation by H.P. Lovecraft which characterizes the genre.
What is “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
500
The last part of the following quotation: When Britain first, at Heaven's command Arose from out the azure main; This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sang this strain:
What is ."Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:"Britons never will be slaves."
500
Introduced the term 'The American Dream'
Who is Horatio Alger jr?
500
Two concepts that are seen as opposites put together for effect.
What is an oxymoron?