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Famous Characters
Literary Terms
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The philosophical belief that it is important to describe the actual, immediate, the here and now, and the specific action.
What is Enlightenment?
100
What is the author of a a book that explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age
Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald?
100
This short story begins "Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death."
What is "The Story of an Hour"?
100
This character can lift 700 pounds, escape a maximum security prison, dance professional level ballet, and defy gravity.
Who is Harrison Bergeron?
100
the message of a piece of literature
What is theme?
200
the movement emphasizing emotion and imagination, rather than logic and scientific thought
What is Romanticism?
200
wrote the dramatized story of the Salem witch trials of 1692 as an allegory of McCarthyism, called "The Crucible"
Who was Arthur Miller?
200
This poem begins: "(To JS/07 M 378 / This Marble Monument /Is Erected by the State)"
What is "The Unknown Citizen"?
200
This character has a voice that is "full of money."
Who is Daisy Buchanan?
200
the audience knows that what a character EXPECTS and what is true are different
What is dramatic irony?
300
the movement that attempts to show how natural forces such as heredity and environment control people
What is Naturalism?
300
the author of the novel depicting a young narrator struggling to cope with his growing friendship to an outsider despite the prejudices of his Southern, pre-Civil War upbringing
Who was Mark Twain?
300
This short story begins: "George, I wish you'd look at the nursery." "What's wrong with it?"
What is "The Veldt"?
300
This character discovers that when someone close to her dies, her life is better, because she is now "free, free, free."
Who is Mrs. Mallard?
300
The effect of the author's choices of types of sentences, words, and so forth, that help distinguish the author from others - it is affected by their upbringing...
What is style?
400
This literary movement was driven by a conscious desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of their time
What is Modernism?
400
the American poet who wrote these lines: “These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep”
Who was Robert Frost?
400
This poem begins: "anyone lived in a pretty how town / (with up so floating many bells down)."
What is "anyone lived in a pretty how town"?
400
This character is deceitful, and pretends to believe that there are evil forces at work in his community, but really, all he wants is to own all the land and get revenge on others.
Who was Thomas Putnam?
400
The technique is it that mimics the flow of thoughts in the conscious mind
What is stream of consciousness?
500
The philosophical movement after WW II that argued there were no absolutes, no right way of reading anything, as seen in works like "Harrison Bergeron."
What is Post-Modernism?
500
Whose short story featured a character who is handicapped because his mediocrity-worshipping society cannot handle his greatness
Who was Kurt Vonnegut?
500
This Romanticism era short story begins: "A few miles from Boston, in Massachusetts, there is a deep inlet winding several miles into the interior of the country from Charles Bay, and terminating in a thickly wooded swamp, or morass. On one side of this inlet is a beautiful dark grove."
What is "The Devil and Tom Walker"?
500
This character appears to be a gentleman, but feels he must engage in an act of terrorism that makes him face the death penalty.
Who is Peyton Farquhar?
500
This iterary device encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work.
What is tone?