Cry
Antigone
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Literary Terms
Christmas trivia!
100

This was the town that Kumalo came from.

What is Indotsheni?

100

This was Antigone's father.

Who is Oedipus?

100

This is a type of poetry from Japan that consists of 3 lines and usually speaks of a person.

What is a senyru?

100

This is the term when a character doesn't seem to be real or complex.

What is a flat character?

100

This is the amount of ghosts that appear to Scrooge in A Christmas Carol.

What is four?

200

This was the type of execution sentenced to Absalom.

What was hanging?

200

This is the Greek playwright author of Antigone.

Who was Sophocles?

200

This is a Korean form of poetry consisting of usually 3 lines, or 6 in English.

What is sijo?

200

This is when you compare one thing to another, such as "the sky is a canvas."

What is a metaphor?

200

This is Scrooge's first name.

What is Ebeneezer?

300

A character who had God's hands put on him.

Who was Msimangu?

300

This is how many children Oedipus had.

What is 4?

300

This is the most famous ghazal poet.

Who is Hafiz?

300

This is the name of a character that is used to magnify or exemplify another character's opposite qualities.

What is a foil?

300

These are the 3 words in various tenses the Grinch is described as in the song "He's a Mean one, Mr. Grinch."

What is stink, stank, stunk?
400

This was how the people addressed Stephen Kumalo as minister.

What is Umfundisi?

400

This is Antigone's fiance and son to Creon.

Who is Haemon?

400

This is a famous type of poem from the Middle East that is usually about love or God.

What is a ghazal?

400

This word describes the overarching ideas expressed in a literary work.

What is a theme?

400

This 1985 book was turned into an animated Christmas movie with the same title starring Tom Hanks.

What is The Polar Express?

500

This was the weather metaphor for mercy, as seen in the scene in the church where both Kumalo and Jarvis came.

What is rain?

500

This is the name of the blind prophet who warns Creon of the consequences of his pride.

Who is Tiresius?

500

This type of Japanese poetry has 5 lines.

What is a tanka?

500

This is a dominant idea or image expressed concretely, usually used many times throughout a novel.  Usually ties into the main themes.  An example would be fathers and sons in Cry the Beloved Country.

What is a motif?

500

In this famous book, 4 children enter a land where it's always winter and never Christmas.

What is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.