Definitions
This is the term used to describe a learning strategy and involves a concentrated effort on the part of a reader to do the following:
Paying attention to what you are reading
Thinking about what the text means,
Doing more than simply surface reading
What is Active Reading?
This type of drama is usually associated with a main character and their downfall, often brought about by a flaw.
What is a Tradgedy?
This compares two unlike things.
What is a Simile?
They are known as the most famous writer in the English Language.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Identify the work described:
A college student comes home for a family emergency, talks to a ghost, breaks up with his girlfriend, betrays his friends and is killed by his would be brother in law.
What is Hamlet?
This is the arrangement of the action,
the series of events recounted in a
story.
What is Plot?
This type of literature is associated with the Southern United States and exposing its dark underbelly and social issues left unexplored until uncovered. Popular authors include William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.
This is used to describe a statement made emphatic by overstatement.
What is Hyperboyle?
This author sewed clothes for their mother's chickens in their spare time.
Who is Flannery O'Connor?
Identify The Work Described:
Two girls remember incidents in their shared past, and consider their connection to each other, along with the ways their races change it.
What is "Recitatif"?
This made up of lists which consist of those works that help to define a particular time period, genre of work, or a country of origin.
What is the Literary Canon?
This, usually made prominent in poetry, refers to language that evokes a physical sensation produced by one of the five senses:
What is Imagery?
This is a brief pointed saying that couples words that contradict each other.
What is an Epigram?
This author, poet and playwright fled to France to be able to write and express himself freely, in order for their work to be taken seriously.
Who is James Baldwin?
Identify the work described:
A man attempts to make his girlfriend prettier. It backfires spectacularly.
What is "The Birthmark"?
Characters do not change throughout a story and play the same sort of role are called this.
What are Static Characters?
Developed by a librarian, this acronym, and research "tool" is focused on helping students weed out the junk from the rest of their paper, and relies on Currency, Accuracy and Purpose, among other categories of evaluation.
What is the CRAAP Test?
This is the act of giving human characteristics to objects and non human animals.
What is Personification?
This poet became famous after death, and they died in obscurity until their work finally entered the Literary Canon.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
Identify the work described:
A family takes the road trip from Hell.
What is "A Good Man Is Hard To Find"?
This is the term for any work's main idea or meaning.
What is Theme?
This theatrical movement has a large focus on existentialism and the breakdown of traditional societal norms surrounding human existence, communication and culture. Tom Stoppard's work falls into this category.
What is Theatre of the Absurd?
This is a play on various meanings of a word.
What is a Pun?
This author claimed to have seen, and to remember, their own birth.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
Identify the work described:
An aging leader is depressed and disillusioned and tries to gather up his old adventuring party.
What is "Ulysses"?