Author who wrote plays and played a major role in the Victorian Era
Who is Shakespeare
100
A narrow- minded, conventional, prudish person.
What is Mrs. Grundy
100
An implied or indirect reference especially in literature
What is Allusion
100
The comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship.
What is Analogy
200
Contemporary culture characterized by the problem of objective truth
What is Postmodernism
200
Private poet who wrote If I Should Die.
Who is Emily Dickinson
200
False sympathy for someone.
What is Crocodile Tears
200
A combination of contradictory or incongruous words
What is Oxymoron
200
A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole
300
A literary and artistic movement that reacted against the restraint and universalism of the Enlightenment Period
What is the Romantic Era
300
English poet who wrote no man is an island. He was a metaphysical poet.
Who is John Donne
300
Sea creatures in Greek Mythology
What is Sirens
300
A statement or proposition that contradicts itself
What is paradox
300
Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a story
What is Foreshadowing
400
Time period that aims at honest portrayal, over sensationalism, exaggeration, or melodrama.
What is Realism
400
English Common Law, an unruly crowd had to be read this
What is Read the Riot Act
400
The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story.
What is Climax
400
A word is used which has two meanings at the same time, which results in humor.
What is Pun
500
An American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England, that focused on the primacy of the individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature.
What is Transcendentalism
500
Gothic writer whose main focus was death and depression.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe
500
A person's weakness
What is Achilles heel
500
A symbolic representation
What is Allegory
500
The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence.