Literary Terms
A term meaning two contrasting ideas
What is dichotomy?
Sylvia Plath married him.
Who is Ted Hughes?
The character who said "Get thee to a Nunnery!"
Who is Hamlet.
When a comma joins two independent clause-- it's called this.
What is a comma splice?
A foot that has a stressed followed by an unstressed syllable.
What is a trochee?
A term meaning two characters who are opposites, yet share a key characteristic
What is foil character?
These two writers both won the Nobel prize.
Who are MLK and Kazuo Ishiguro?
The literary device that captures the function of the pirates in Hamlet.
What is deus ex machina?
The number of words an introductory phrase needs to have for it to require a comma.
What is four?
The number of lines in a villanelle?
A term meaning repeated vowel sounds
What is assonance?
The name of the novel Jean-Paul Sartre wrote.
What is Nausea?
The name of Scandinavian folk tale on which Hamlet was based.
What is Amleth?
Two independent clauses in a sentence.
What is a compound sentence.
The number of stanzas in an Italian sonnet.
What is two?
A term meaning the natural world reflects a character's emotions
What is pathetic fallacy?
Anton Chekhov's wife.
Who is Olga Knipper?
Foil to Hamlet.
Who is Fortinbras?
The correct way to write the title of a play.
What is underline or italicize it.
The title of Plath's poem she wrote after reading The Great Gatsby.
What is "Ennui"?
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair" is an example of this device that describes a phrase that is repeated, but changed in a significant way
What is chiasmus?
The occupation of Jhumpa Lahiri's father.
What is librarian?
Hamlet's last words.
What are "The rest is silence."
The punctuation mark that is both efficient and sophisticated.
What is the semi-colon?
Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?