Literary terms
A kind of figurative language where an inanimate object or a concept is spoken of as if it had human life, thoughts or feelings.
What is personification?
The full name of the winning candidate from the American election in 2024.
What/who is Donald John Trump?
The author of the novels 'Normal People', 'Conversations with Friends' and 'Beautiful World, Where Are You?.
Who are Sally Rooney?
The regent who ruled Britain when its empire where at its largest capacity.
Who is Queen Victoria?
Text and author to the following qoute:
"She knew these were the kind of thoughts that made her different from other people in school, and weirder."
What is 'Normal People' by Sally Rooney?
The adversary of the protagonist in a play or a novel/short story.
What is an antagonist?
The number of members in the U.S. Senate.
What is 100?
(There are 100 members of the U.S. Senate, two from each of the 50 states).
The full names of the two main characters in 'Normal People. (first name and last name)
What is Connell Waldron and Marianne Sheridan?
The war that marks the begining of end of the British Empire.
Text and author to the following qoute:
"Go bind your sons to exile/To serve your captives' need;/To wait in heavy harness,/On fluttered folk and wild/You new-caught, sullen peoples,/Half-devil and half-child."
What is "The White Man's burden" by Rudyard Kipling?
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A fictional story in which the characters are animals, plants, mythical creatures or forces of nature which are given human traits. They often teach a moral lesson.
What is a fabel?
The U.S. president that issued the executive order that established the Peace Corps.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
(The Peace Corps is a U.S. goverment agency of volunteers that was established on March 1, 1961, and authorized by the U.S. Congress through the Peace Corps Act of September 22, 1961.)
The name of Mariannes brother and mother.
Who is Alan Sheridan and Denise Sheridan?
(only first names are required)
Finish the stanza:
"When Britain first, at heaven's command, / Arose from out the azure main, / this was the charter of the land, / And guardian angles sung this strain - ...?..."
What is: "Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; / Britons never will be slaves."
Text and author to the following quote:
"Once upon a time an elephant made a friendship with a man."
What is "Gentlemen of the Jungle" by Jomo Kenyatta?
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The use of an element early in a text that gives a hint about or anticipates a later part of the text.
What is 'foreshadowing'?
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
(Her husband was Frankling D. Roosevelt).
Said by what character:
"Do you think we don't know you were riding her? he said. Sure everyone knows."
Who is Eric?
(conversation between Eric and Connell at the Debs)
Academic responsible for the following quote:
"Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient - dealing with it by making statements about it."
(Palestinian American academic, political activist and literary critic).
Text and author to the following quote:
"She had always a perfect command of English, and when she was sufficiently drunk, sould sometimes be induced to tell the story of her first love-affair."
What is "Lispeth" by Rudyard Kipling?
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Literature from or about Britain’s former colonies.
What is postcolonial literature?
The year where the Supreme Court of the United States was formally established.
What is 1789?
What is Sinn Féin and Fine Gael?
International association, that developed from the end of British Empire, with 56 member states, where the vast majority are former territories of the British Empire.
What is the Commonwealth of Nations?
(Also called the Commonwealth, or the British Commonwealth)
Text and author to the following quote:
"My mother sent yams and rice, and our old clothes, to his family. And when I didn't finish my dinner my mother would say, "Finish you food! Don't you know? People like Fide's family have nothing." So I felt enormous pity for Fide's family."
What is "The danger of a single story" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie?
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