Authors
Twelfth Night, The Tragedy of Macbeth, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
She is forced to wear a scarlet letter A for committing adultery.
Hester Prynne
Centers around a precocious young woman whose misplaced confidence in her matchmaking abilities gets her into trouble.
Emma
"Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file."
As I Lay Dying
Brave New World, The Hunger Games, and 1984 are considered to be this type of novel.
Dystopian Novel
Tender is the Night, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned
She is described as a beautiful young woman, and she is also the love interest of the main character in the play Hamlet.
Ophelia
First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a little private island. One by one, each guest dies.
And Then There Were None
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Pride and Prejudice
It occurs when a statement or situation means something different from, (or even the opposite of) what is expected.
Irony
As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August
William Faulkner
Kurtz
The novel chronicles the life of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo community. This novel was also written as a direct response to Heart of Darkness.
Things Fall Apart
"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since."
The Great Gatsby
The insight about life that is revealed in a literary work. (Ms. Debbi always said it needs to be a complete sentence)
Theme
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
He writes a series of letters to Margaret on board the ship, "Archangel."
Robert Walton
The story follows Billy Pilgrim, an optometrist who becomes "unstuck in time" and experiences his life events out of chronological order
Slaughterhouse 5
"The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide."
Heart of Darkness
Example: Freedom weeps, wrong rules the land, and waiting justice sleeps.
personification
The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
One of Romeo's best friends (name one to receive all points)
Benvolio or Mercutio
The novel begins when Janie returns to Eatonville, Florida after having left for a significant amount of time. She narrates to her friend all that she has gone through.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
"Who's there?"
The Tragedy of Hamlet
An address, usually in poetry, to someone, or even to a personified thing or abstract idea that is not present.
Apostrophe