UMD English Knowledge
The name of the recital hall in Tawes
What is Ulrich
A 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf following the Ramsay family
What is To the Lighthouse
The benchmark introductory course to the English major
What is ENGL301
Enpicl
What is: Pencil
The feeling a reader experiences throughout a literary work
The names of all the English tracks
What is...
Literary and cultural studies
Language, Writing and Rhetoric
Creative Writing
Media studies
An old English epic poem about a hero's journey frequently taught in ENGL310
What is Beowulf
There are four historical periods of the English historical studies - name at least 3 of them
Mamgrra
What is: Grammar
A story whose sole purpose is to represent an abstract conception or idea
What is an allegory
The academic student writing journal
What is Interpolations
What is Things Fall Apart
The minimum amount of 200 level creative writing workshops a Creative Writing major must take
What is one
Crhtreoi
What is: Rhetoric
A deductive scheme of formal arguments consisting of a major and minor premise with a conclusion
What is a syllogism
The Department Chair for English at UMD
Who is Amanda Bailey
Edmund Spenser's most famous Middle English epic which explores Christian values and glorifies the monarchy
What is the "Faerie Queene"
There are four categories of focus within the Media Studies Track, name one
What is: Literature
A device where a word or a phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive sentences to create emphasis and rhythm
What is anaphora?
The number of rooms in Tawes Hall
(Hint: it's an odd number)
What is 421
The first line in Pride and Prejudice
What is: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
One topic in the Literary and Cultural Studies track is 'National, Transnational and/or Global Literatures' -- name the other
Form, Genre & Poetics
Uiatnocojng
What is: Conjugation
The use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but ludicrously wrong in the context
What is malapropism