Authors and Literary Works
An iconic piece of speculative fiction which became a show on HBO in 2017.
What is The Handmaid's Tale?
“[Redacted] said that bees won’t sting idiots, but I didn’t believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn’t sting me”.
Who is Huckleberry Finn?
When people (most often women) face societal pressure to conform to rules governing how they should look.
When you explain a concept using more abstract terms - when you compare something to another thing without using "like".
What is a metaphor?
Racism and sexism all rolled into one!
What is Nadinola advertisments?
This hard-to-pronounce author utilizes a different form of narration which is hard to parse until later in the work.
Woo is Jeffrey Eugenides, author of the Virgin Suicides?
"My homosexuality remained at that poiny purely theoretical, an untested hypothesis".
Who is Alison Bechdel?
When someone is treated poorly and not allowed the same rights and treatments as others due to their gender, colour of their skin, religion or sexual orientation.
What is opression or discrimination?
The phrase "Benny's Beautiful Bumble Bees" is an example of this.
What is alliteration?
A series of texts appealing to our empathy for less fortunate individuals in the world.
Authored by a writer working under a pen name they came up with while working on a steam boat.
What is Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Samuel Langhorne Clemens / Mark Twain?
“All right, then, I’ll go to hell”.
Who is Huckleberry Finn?
When someone is using their financial might, physical strength, or social influence to manipulate or restrict others.
What is abuse of power?
The added meaning of a word or phrase - what the use of a given term may imply.
What is connotation?
An articulate gentleman speaks on the virtues of swearing and how society has changed since AD 33.
What is Stephen Fry's podcast "The Seven Deadly Sins"?
Originally written in a different language, this work brings up themes such as societal stratification, pride, and heritage.
What is Erasmus Monatnus or Rasmus Berg by Ludvig Holberg?
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
Who is Offred?
When a religious movement controls society and inhibits personal expression if it goes agains their religious doctrine.
What is a theocracy?
The area in-between content in a photograph or cartoon/drawing - the absence of subject which in and of itself becomes imortant.
What is negative space?
A look into how gender roles were illustrated in fiction right after WW2.
What are the "Startling Stories" covers?
Authored in 1980, but is still just as relevant to a modern audience.
What is Terminal Boredom?
"Humans are animals, we pair up to mate. And two women can't do that, it's gotta be a man and a woman. You and me, for instance, the two of us, living out our lives together. Relying on each other. I think my mother was happy. And my father too, of course".
Who is Hiro from Women and Women?
When someone treats others poorly due to their own percieved intelligence.
What is academic hubris?
Metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, and onomatopoeia are all examples of this.
What is figurative language?
Complicated social interactions leading to an abundance of judgmental attitudes in both participants and audience.
What are the Jubilee YouTube videos?