Composition
The type of thesis that makes a claim that will be defended in the paper
What is an argumentative thesis?
The large-scale events that surround the writing of a work
What is the historical context?
a comparison in which one thing is stated in terms of another
What is metaphor?
The literary device that is evident through Detective Fix's helping Mr. Fogg
What is irony?
The author of "Sonnet 26:I lived with visions for my company," who wrote this poem during her time of correspondence with the man she loved
Who is Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
The creature that stole the plant Gilgamesh was searching for
What is a serpent (snake)?
What Gilgamesh was granted at the end of his life instead of everlasting life
What is kingship
the type of thesis that states the main idea of the paper; it reveals that the paper is informative
What is an explanatory thesis?
where and when the action of a work takes place
What is the setting?
a comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or animal
What is personification?
The literary device demonstrated by the line of questioning in these lines from The Epic of Gilgamesh: "If you are Gilgamesh, why are your cheeks so starved and your face drawn? Why is despair in your heart and your face like the face of one who has made a long journey? Yes, why is your face burned with heat and cold; and why do you come here, wandering over the wilderness in search of the wind?"
What is repetition
The theme that is evident in these lines from Around the World in Eighty Days: “I will come back to America to find him. . . . It would not be right for an Englishman to permit himself to be treated in that way, without retaliating”
What is honor?
What is an election?
True biblical discernment in studying literature cannot exist apart from studying this book
What is the Bible?
This quality of writing creates a natural rhythm in a composition. Learning to use this will help your writing to read more smoothly and logically.
What is parallelism?
a movement that hailed nature over civilization
What is romanticism?
the perspective from which the story is told
What is the point of view?
This poem by John Milton demonstrates the theme of service through this line: "Who best/Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best.”
What is "Sonnet 19: On His Blindness"?
The author of "The Vagabond"
Who is Robert Louis Stevenson?
The ferryman in The Epic of Gilgamesh
Who is Urshanabi?
The character whose death urges Gilgamesh to begin a quest for everlasting life
Who is Enkidu?
When using correlative conjunctions, this is where you place the conjunctions in relation to the parallel items (before or after)
Before the parallel items
the life experiences of an author
What is the biographical background?
the use of words that appeal to the senses
What is imagery?
In this poem by James Weldon Johnson, the mist is a metaphor for suffering.
What is "The Gift to Sing"?
work by William Wordsworth focuses on the beauty of London in the midst of nature
What is "Composed upon Westminster Bridge"
man on a quest to travel around the world in record time
Who was Phileas Fogg?
the valet and traveling companion to Mr. Fogg
Who is Passepartout?
What is a declarative sentence?
the response which the writer intends from his readers
What is the mood?
the writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward his subject
What is tone?
This poem by James Weldon Johnson demonstrates the theme of hope through these lines: "No nights are dark, no days are long, / While in my heart there swells a song, / and I can sing"?
What is "The Gift to Sing"?
The theme that is evident from this line from Around the World in Eighty Days: "San Francisco was no longer the legendary city of 1849--a city of banditti, assassins, and incendiaries, who had flocked hither in crowds in pursuit of plunder; a paradise of outlaws, where they gambled with gold-dust, a revolver in one hand and a bowie-knife in the other: it was not a great commercial emporium."
What is organization vs. chaos?
The poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that is based on the Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War?
What is "The Charge of the Light Brigade"?
a beautiful young woman from India who was rescued by Mr. Fogg
Who is Aouda?