AUTHORS
The author of Frankenstein.
Who is Mary Shelley?
This word means plain.
What is banal?
A reference to something widely known, usually a work of literature.
What is allusion?
Sequence of events in a narrative.
What is plot?
Firefighter burns books.
Fahrenheit 451
Who is Tim O'Brien?
Characterized by bitterness and resentment.
What is rancorous?
What is onomatopoeia?
A work of literature meant to convey a hidden meaning, often a moral or political one.
What is allegory?
Animals take over a farm; "some animals are more equal than others."
Animal Farm
This man wrote Fahrenheit 451.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
A strong feeling of longing for something or someone.
What is yearn?
The way an author builds a character during a work of literature.
Characterization
Literary work that mocks a topic using irony.
What is satire?
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
A Tale of Two Cities
The writer of both Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.
Socially proper, appropriate.
What is decorous?
This is either first person, second person, or third person.
Point of view
Sensory language--language that evokes the five sense--that is used to make descriptions vivacious and interesting.
Imagery
Travels New York City; "Do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over?"
The Catcher in the Rye
The most famous English language playwright.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Moderation in action or thought.
What is temperance?
A pause between punctuation in a poem.
Caesura
The struggle between two or more forces that drive the plot.
Conflict
One of the very first anti-war novels featuring Paul Baumer as an eager recruit who discovers that war is actually hell.
All Quiet on the Western Front