In this poem, a sailor temporarily felt:
“Alone,alone,all, all alone
Alone on a wide, wide sea!”
What is "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner"?
100
This literary movement was known for the use of stream of consciousness narration, in whicha character’s thoughts and feelings are presented as they occur in a rapid and
jumbled flow.
What is Modernism?
100
This type of literature uses ridicule to make a comment or criticism.
What is satire?
100
This author wrote the Nigerian novel "Things Fall Apart."
Who is Chinua Achebe?
100
This word means also.
What is "too"?
200
In this poem, written after World War I, the poet expresses his fear of the future by saying:
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;”
What is "The Second Coming"
200
This group of poets imitated the polished style of classical Latin poetry.
What are the Cavalier poets
200
Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" is an example of this kind of witty satire that pokes fun at human foibles.
What is Horatian satire?
200
The men of Umofia wear masks on these occasions in order to become the spirits of the tribe.
What is the egwugwu ceremony?
200
This contraction is used to mean you are.
What is "you're"?
300
This poem compares driving a new car to having intercourse with a virgin through images like:
“… passed
from low through
second-in-to-high
like greasedlightening…”
What is "she Being brand -new"?
300
This literary movement exalted the individual and glorified nature in lyrical and expressive writings.
What is the Romantic Movement?
300
Jonathon Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is an example of this type of insulting satire that denounces human vice and error.
What is Juvenalian satire?
300
This is the name the people of African natives come up with for the bicycle the first missionary rides into their community.
What is an iron horse?
300
This word is the possessive form of the pronoun "it".
What is "its"?
400
In this poem Auden comments on the self-aborption of modern society with images like:
“But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have
seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.”
What is "The Musee Des Beaux Arts"?
400
This poetry collection signalled the start of the Romantic Movement in Britain.
What is Lyrical Ballads?
400
This satirical technique features something that is out of place in relation to its surroundings.
What is incongruity?
400
This son of Okonkwo ends up going to a teacher's college and changing his name to Issac.
Who is Nwoye?
400
This word is used when an article of clothing is not tight-fitting.
What is "loose"?
500
In this poem that compares the veterans of WWI to scarecrows, the poet comments on a general lack of conviction with the following statement:
“This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper”
What is "The Hollow Men"?
500
This group of poets revolted against the conventions of early love poetry.
What are the Metaphysical poets?
500
This satirical technique features something presented in the opposite of the normal order.
What is reversal?
500
Joseph Campbell's theory of the hero's journey is an example of this type of cross-cultural themes in literature.
What is a monomyth?
500
This word is the possessive form of the pronoun "they".