Who knows?
MARQUAMUS
Hmm...sounds familiar!
Mmm...termy!
Depends on yer point-of-view, don't it?
100
The literary term for the figurative expression Camus uses here:
“And I fired four more times at a lifeless body and the bullets sank in without leaving a mark. And it was like giving four sharp knocks at the door of unhappiness.”
What is a simile?
100
Marquez is from this South American nation that borders Venezuela. A fictionalized version of it serves as the geographic setting for many of his works.
What is Columbia?
100
“Against the judgment of the wise neighbor woman, for whom angels in those times were the fugitive survivors of a spiritual conspiracy, they did not have the heart to club him to death”
What is "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
100
Spatial, geographic, temporal, atmospheric, & cultural
What is setting?
100
The author is not narrating, rather it is a character within the narrative.
What is the first-person narrative point-of-view?
200
A curator from Christies' auction house defined this as "images produced through natural energies."
What is photography?
200
The subtitle for Marquez's short story, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings."
What is "A Tale for Children?"
200
“She was certain that the Vicario brothers were not as eager to carry out the sentence as to find someone who would do them the favor of stopping them.”
What is "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
200
Visual, tactile, olfactory, gustatory, auditory
What is imagery?"
200
A visual artist renders a characterization of themselves
What is a self-portrait?
300
This philosophy is neatly summarized as, "Existence precedes essence."
What is existentialism?
300
Camus was awarded one of these in 1957. Marquez was awarded one of these in 1982. Our current president is so upset he has not been awarded one of these that he has threatened the sovereignty of Greenland.
What is a Nobel prize?
300
“For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate”
What is The Stranger by Albert Camus?
300
a recurring and thematically significant narrative element
What is a motif?
300
The point of view in this extract: "You are amongst them, of course. Your curiosity got the better of you, as curiosity is wont to do. You stand in the fading light, the scarf around your neck pulled up against the chilly evening breeze, waiting to see for yourself exactly what kind of circus only opens once the sun sets."
What is the second-person narrative point-of-view?
400
According to Camus, when our search for the meaning of life is thwarted by the indifferent universe.
What is The Absurd?
400
He translated the opening lines of Camus' L'etranger as "Maman died today."
Who is Matthew Ward?
400
“The most unfortunate invalids on earth came in search of health”
What is "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
400
A concrete element of a text representing abstract themes
What is symbolism?
400
Not the author and not a character, but rather a disembodied narrator.
What is the third-person?
500
The photographer who snapped this photo.
Who is Dora Marr?
500
Camus was born there, and Ali LaPointe died there.
What is Algiers?
500
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy"
What is "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus?
500
A stylistic narrative approach that strives to communicate the perception of authentic, "real" life.
What is verisimilitude?
500
The narrator has a "god-like," all-seeing/all-knowing perspective.
What is "omniscient?"