Rhyme Time
Don’t get “hit” by this genre of oral poetry.
What is slam poetry?
Dangerous sentences (such as the first sentence of The Trial) are written in this voice.
What is the passive voice?
The year of Frankenstein’s publication.
What is 1818?
Baldwin was born in this neighborhood in 1924.
What is Harlem?
Prometheus was punished for stealing this from the Gods.
What is fire?
Metaphors have two components: the “tenor” and the _____.
What is a "vehicle"?
The guards who arrest Josef K.
Who are Franz and Willem?
Victor Frankenstein creates life while a sophomore at this German university.
What is Ingolstadt?
A visit to this mountainous region inspired both Frankenstein and Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village.”
What is Switzerland (or the Alps)?
Shelley’s mother Mary Wollstonecraft famously penned Vindication of the _____ of Woman in 1792.
What are "Rights"?
A three-line stanza
used by Dante
and Monica Youn.
What is a tercet?
The Trial indirectly inspired Hannah Arendt to coin a famous phrase about “the _____ of evil.”
What is "banality"?
The Creature’s reading list: Plutarch’s Lives, Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther, and this poem.
What is John Milton's Paradise Lost?
In 1949, Baldwin was arrested on this charge.
What is a "receiver of stolen goods"?
Objection! This lawyer-poet has argued cases before the Supreme Court.
Who is Monica Youn?
Marianne Moore described this animal as a “camel-sparrow.”
What is the ostrich?
Josef K. is asked to escort this person to the Cathedral.
Who is an important Italian businessman?
Mel Brooks’s uproariously funny 1974 adaptation of Shelley’s novel.
What is Young Frankenstein?
“People are trapped in _____ and _____ is trapped in them.”
What is "history"?
The term to describe a novel written in the form of letters.
What is "epistolary"?
When a poet’s thought spills over the line-ending and onto the next line.
What is enjambment?
The original, German title of The Trial.
What is Der Prozess?
Extra postage! The contents of Frankenstein are imagined to be a series of letters addressed to this fictional reader.
Who is Mrs. Saville?
“I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to _____ her perpetually.”
What is "criticize"?
The title of Mary Shelley’s final novel about the lone survivor of a 21st-century plague.
What is The Last Man?