Trifles
This author, noted for writing through a strong feminist lens, wrote Trifles in 1916.
Who is Susan Glaspell?
This US city, known for it's history of Chinese immigration, serves as the primary setting in the Joy Luck Club.
What is San Francisco?
This was the year that William Shakespeare first published A Midsummer Night's Dream.
What is the year 1600.
This was the original language that The Alchemist was published in.
What is Portuguese?
This literary work uses magical elements as a literary technique to explore irrational love.
What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?
This important object serves as a symbol for Minnie Wright's lost joy and emotional repression.
What is the dead canary?
This type of conflict drives much of the tension between mothers and daughters.
What is generational conflict?
This term refers to the magic love potion and it's role in the plot of this play.
What is a plot device?
This term describes the genre of The Alchemist, popularized by South American authors wherein supernatural elements are presented in an otherwise realistic setting.
What is magical realism?
This literary work features a non-linear narrative.
What is the Joy Luck Club?
This key decision by the women demonstrates Glaspell's central idea about moral vs. legal justice?
What is hiding the evidence?
This character’s chess success symbolizes her struggle for control and independence.
Who is Waverly?
The conflict between Egeus and Hermia reflects this broader societal expectation in Athens.
What is patriarchal authority?
The character of the crystal merchant symbolizes this concept.
What is fear of change?
This literary work uses setting as a way to symbolize isolation and confinement.
What is Trifles?
This thematic topic is revealed through the contrasting roles of male vs. female perspective.
What are gender roles? What is female solidarity?
The use of food, stories, and cultural traditions throughout the novel develops this central idea.
The contrast of Athens vs. the enchanted forest illustrates this thematic topic.
What is order vs. chaos?
Santiago's journey develops this thematic topic.
What is pursuing dreams/ destiny?
This literary work is a prime example of an allegory.
What is The Alchemist?
Glaspell's use of the title "Trifles" is an example of this literary technique.
What is irony?
Individual identity is shaped through the tension between cultural heritage and personal experience, and understanding across generations requires empathy and communication. What role does this statement play in the novel?
What is the theme of the Joy Luck Club?
The Mechanicals' play within a play uses humor to criticize theatrical conventions, using this literary style.
What is satire?
Coelho suggests that the greatest obstacle to achieving one’s Personal Legend is not failure, but this internal condition that prevents action.
What is fear?
"How is belief or faith represented in two literary works? What, according to these works, is the significance of belief or faith?" This literary work would be best suited for this Paper 2 sample prompt.
What is The Alchemist