Short stories
The “issue” that is decided in “Popular Mechanics”
What is the baby?
A character who undergoes a change during the story
What is a dynamic character?
A comparison using “like” or “as”
What is a similie?
Deals with unusual or experimental subject matter
What is the avant garde?
Mrs. Linde’s first name
What is Kristine?
The climax of “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
What is the grandmother’s conversation with the Misfit?
When an author provides direct characterization through the character’s actions and words
What is showing?
”Machine” and “thing” are this type of rhyme
What is imperfect?
Shakespeare’s plays can be divided into these three categories
What are histories, comedies, and tragedies?
What Helmer says to make Nora says “before all else, I’m a human being”
What is before all else, you’re a wife and mother?
The lottery in “The Lottery” could be a symbol of this.
What is tradition?
French word for the English “untying of the knot”
What is denouement?
Poems that usually have a humorous tone, making fun of or satirizing something serious
What is a parody?
A solution to a problem that seems too simple/easy, from the Ancient Greek
What is a deus ex machina?
The dance Nora performs at the costume party
What is the tarantella?
Past v. present is a possible thematic concept for this story
What is “A Rose for Emily?”
When the readers know something that the characters do not
What is dramatic irony?
Poems that use the same last words in every stanza
What is a sestina?
A speech given when a character is alone on stage
What is a soliloquy?
Krogstad loaned Nora how many crowns?
How much is 4,800?
Where is Georgia?
A character that only has one or two characteristics and is not complex
What is a flat character?
Poems written in Iambic Pentameter
What is an English Sonnet?
Defined catharsis as a purgation of emotion, usually fear or pity
Who is Artistotle?
What is Elizabethan?