Definitions
A passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied
What is Excerpt?
The point of view including words like "He said" or "They said"
What is third person?
March Madness references this sport
What is basketball?
This is where Miss Brill goes to people watch.
What is the park?
This acts as a point of solace in the poem Wind.
What is a house?
The time and location in which a story takes place, encompassing the physical environment, cultural background, and atmosphere
What is Setting?
Words like "scary" or "whimsical" show off this!
This is the fictional princess that the author references in his writing about March Madness.
Who is Cinderella?
This is how the story of Miss Brill presents how fantasies can make people feel.
What is connected to the world/people around them?
This is the major conflict of the poem.
What is Man vs. Nature?
The process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences
What is Resilience?
Juror #3 changing from the beginning to the end of 12 Angry Men
What is character development?
This is the primary question the author brings to light with this story.
Miss Brill believes that she is in this.
What is a play?
Not only does the storm trap the people physically, but it isolates them THIS way as well, which can be all the more dangerous to a person.
What is mentally?
Exploring the fragmented human experience, psychological depth, and alienation in a rapidly changing, industrialized world, often through radical experimentation with narrative form and structure
What is Modernist Focus?
A five paragraph essay, a novel, and a haiku are all this.
What are literary forms?
Bowen's argument of the fact that March Madness isn't equitable in the long run is one of the major one of THESE with this story.
What is theme?
This is Miss Brill's job.
What is an English teacher?
The storm is more than just a storm in this poem, as Hughes describes it like it is this.
What is a monster/living, breathing creature?
The psychological or emotional state of feeling estranged, isolated, or disconnected from one's society, work, or authentic self
Phrases like "The dangers of unrecognized prejudices" are just one example of one of these from 12 Angry Men.
What is theme?
Bowen argues that while there is often an underdog, a poorer school with less funding truly winning in the end is truly THIS.
What is a fairytale?
This is what Miss Brill puts on every time she goes to the park.
What is her fur stole?
Like so many poems, "Wind" focuses on the THIS of humanity, despite how strong we may think we are.
What is temporary status?