Metamorphosis
The first description of Gregor is ______
"a monstrous vermin"
Name of the disease and year of death
Tuberculosis; 1917
"The Love Song" was written during this literary movement.
Modernism
worn away, irregular –
Ragged
T.S Eliot’s most famous poem? –
The wasteland
"Dead?"
Mother
The Object that Gregor fights to keep in his room after Grete and his mother began to remove his room furniture because they felt crowded and he needs space?
Picture of the lady in furs
Kafka felt like an outsider in Prague because he was _____ and _____
Jewish; Catholic
What are the women discussing in the hotel rooms? –
Michelangelo
painstaking; extremely conscientious –
Meticulous
This is the country in which Eliot was born.
The United States
This is a figure of speech in which a word is used as an intended meaning is different from the actual meaning. The difference between appearance and reality. –
Irony
Gregor's furniture and his framed picture are symbolic of ____?
Gregor's attempt to stay human
Name of the man who Kafka told to burn his works?
Max Brod
. "I should have been a pair of ragged claws/Scuttling across the floors of silent seas" is an example of this poetic device.
- Imagery
pretends to be ill –
Malingers
Which prestigious award did Eliot win in 1948? –
The Nobel Prize for Literature
"What a quiet life the family leads."
Gregor Samsa
Times of the Day Grete fed Gregor?
Morning and after lunch
Franz Kafka's style of writing?
Modernism
Prufrock is obsessed with acceptance; therefore, he is very interested in these (balding, what to wear?)
Appearances? (other peoples' opinions is also acceptable).
to make an unjustified assumption –
presume
Eliot was a citizen of these two countries.
The United States and Britain
Anaphora
Die Verwandlung
The original title of The Metamorphosis
Name the novel in which a man is accused of an unknown crime?
The end of the poem suggests this drowns us.
The reality of life
to wander away from a topic or route –
digress
This is what the "T.S." stands for in his name.
Thomas Stearns?
Grete
Rotted food
What Gregor ate
Kafka's closest attempt to an autobiography.
"Letter to my Father"
Why does Prufrock believe the mermaids will not sing to him?
He's not worthy of being sung to.
wearisome; tiresome; boring –
tedious
Where did T.S. Eliot go to school?
Harvard University
to joke or laugh scornfully or mockingly –
snicker
Gregor's occupation throughout the book?
Travelling Salesman
"You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love."
Who did Kafka write this to?
Milena Jesenka
What technique is used in the following line, "When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table"? Explain its meaning.
Simile - suggests Prufrock feels trapped and is also filled with dread. He also needs to numb himself to face the social situation he's about to enter.
moving quickly in an irregular fashion, as from fear –
scuttling
Name of the Poem - The Ho___w M__
The Hollow Men
Father
Gregor's primary cause of death?
Starvation and infected wound
Kafka married _____
Trick question - as Kafka never married
The meaning of this poem suggests we do not have time to be this quality in life because time passes by too quickly.
Indecisive
spreading the limbs in a relaxed or awkward position –
sprawling
What age did T.S. Eliot begin writing poetry?
Age 14
The repetition of " In the room, women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" is an example of what literary term? –
Refrain
Name 4 themes of "The Metamorphosis."
Alienation, identity, guilt, and tragedy
Kafka's occupation before being a writer?
lawyer for Assicurazioni Generali
Name and explain three allusions in the poem, focusing on how they contribute to the underlying themes.
Dante’s ‘Inferno’
Michelangelo
Andrew Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’
Hesiod’s ‘Work and Days’
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
John the Baptist
Lazarus
Hamlet
crowned –
wreathed
He studied which languages.
He studied Latin, Ancient Greek, French, and German.
"Would it have been worthwhile?" is an example of this literary term.
Alliteration
How do the family members justify their decision to get rid of the insect?
Kafka was engaged to this person twice?
Felice Bauer
What is Prufrock's constant state of self-doubt and over analyzation constitutes a form of hell for him. He can never truly escape his mind; he spends so much time debating himself he has not time to participate in realit5. What is an opposite quotation at the beginning of a book, chapter, or other literary work? –
Epigraph
secretly treacherous –
insidious
He won the Medal of M__i_
Medel of Merit
"It'll be the death of you. I can see it coming."
Grete