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That's Epic!
Ode To A Genre
Sonnets
A Novel Idea
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The Greek work which includes a ten year journey includes the themes power of cunning over strength and tension between goals and obstacles.
What is The Odyssey?
100
The author famous for the works "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode to Autumn," and "Ode on a Grecian Urn."
Who is John Keats?
100
The number of lines in a sonnet.
What is fourteen?
100
What an extended fictional narrative is almost always written in.
What is prose?
100
Of the three major genres of literature, this one includes works written in lines and may include rhyme, meter, or be open in form.
What is Poetry?
200
An elaborated comparison, more involved and ornate, used as a literary device in this category's genre.
What is an epic simile?
200
The third type of traditional ode, in addition to the Pindaric ode and the Horatian ode.
What is an English ode? (Romantic or Irregular)
200
The type of sonnet that uses the rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg.
What is a Shakespearean sonnet? (English or Elizabethan)
200
The sub-genre novel contains these five elements: Setting, Characters, Theme, Point-of-view, and this.
What is Plot?
200
A prose work that contains monologues, soliloquies, or asides instead of a narrator.
What is Drama?
300
Before societies were literate, this significant characteristic defined epics.
What is oral tradition?
300
The meaning of the Greek word "oide" or "aoide" (from which the word "ode" derives), which suggests the lyrical characteristic of an ode.
What is "song"?
300
How the Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet is divided.
What is one octave and one sestet?
300
Used in a novel, the creation of imaginary persons so that they seem lifelike.
What is characterization?
300
An anonymous story that presents supernatural episodes as a means of interpreting natural events.
What is Myth?
400
What epic poets use at the beginning of an epic inspiration.
What is the invocation of the Muse?
400
This work ends with the lines: "When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'"
What is "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?
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The poetic device used in many sonnets to signify a turn, either subtle shift or a complete reversal, in the direction of the poem.
What is a volta?
400
The novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne which includes this passage: "She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness. Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods. . . . Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers - stern and wild ones - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss."
What is The Scarlet Letter?
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This word's definition is exaggeration, the figure may be used to heighten effect or it may be used for humor. Macbeth uses it here: "No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red."
What is hyperbole?
500
A quote from this epic: "Shamash the glorious sun endowed him with beauty, Adad the god of the storm endowed him with courage, the great gods made his beauty perfect, surpassing all others, terrifying like a great wild bull. Two thirds they made him god and one third man."
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
500
The three major parts by which a classical ode is structured.
What are the strophe, antistrophe, and epode?
500
Along with Italian (Petrarchan) and English (Shakespearean) sonnets, the third main type of sonnet.
What is Spenserian?
500
A sub-genre to Novel in which magic, mystery, and chivalry are the chief characteristics and of which the following are examples: Anne Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
What is Gothic Novel?
500
A story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning, one literal and one figurative, in which the figurative level offers a moral or political lesson is said to be this.
What is an allegory?