Authors
This author is known for his Gothic writing style.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This woman played a key role in showing the true nature of Stanley Kowalski.
Who is Blanche Du Bois?
This phrase is used by Ruth in "A Raisin in the Sun" to quiet Walter. Then employed by Walter to illustrate how women keep men from achieving their goals.
What is "Eat your eggs"?
The relaxed, conversational language that we use every day
What is informal diction?
This type of poem is directly translated from Latin to "Seize the Day"
What is a Carpe Diem poem?
This uber-successful artist wrote a poem we read in class this semester based on real-life events.
Who is Bruce Springsteen?
This woman grew disgusted with her husband's presence and admitted to her mother that might not tell him if she were to have an affair.
Who is Norma Jean Moffit?
This key clue was discovered by the women in "Trifles" which led to the discovery of the dead bird in the sewing box.
What is the knot in the quilt?
A literary movement that represents reality by portraying mundane, everyday experiences as they are in real life.
What is Realism?
This term refers to a word that can have two or more possible meanings
What is ambiguity?
Thomas Lanier Williams III was more well known by this name.
Who is Tennessee Williams?
This woman was being held responsible for the murder of her husband
Who is Minnie Wright?
This was used by Blanche to cover the light in order to conceal the truth about her age.
What is the Paper Lantern?
A character who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to or show to advantage some aspect of the second character.
What is a foil character?
The variation of a writing style in poetry that Shakespeare commonly used consisted of 3 quatrains and ending with a couplet.
What is a Shakespearean Sonnet?
This poet has a unique writing style named after him.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This woman is eventually the cause of her family's death.
Who is the grandmother?
This key form of symbolism by Edgar Allan Poe translates from Italian to "the fortunate one", even though this character with the same name met a very unfortunate end.
What is Fortunato?
A story whose overall plot is concerned with putting the protagonist through a particular sort of experience
What is an initiation story?
This term refers to the continuation of a sentence after a line-break
What is enjambment?
This author penned the sci-fi short story "All Summer in a Day"
Who is Ray Bradbury?
This Real-Life woman was an accomplice to a gruesome murder spree as recalled in the poem "Nebraska"
This key symbol in "A Rose for Emily" is like Emily in the fact that it symbolizes the only remaining emblem from the dying world of Southern aristocracy.
What is Emily's house?
A cultural and political movement whose mainly African American adherents regard themselves and all other Blacks as syncretic Africans and believe that their worldview should positively reflect traditional African values.
What is Afrocentrism?
This term refers to the type of poem that "The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock" is
What is a Dramatic monologue?