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Wild Card
100
This author was Southern, died fairly young of complications from lupus, and was known for being a Catholic writer.
Who is Flannery O'Connor?
100
An action that sets a plot in motion by creating conflict; also called destabilizing event.
What is the inciting incident?
100
"What did you say?" "I said we could have everything." "No, we can't." "We can have the whole world." "No, we can't." "We can go everywhere." "No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore." "It's ours." "No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back."
What is "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway?
100
After the chopper took Lavender away, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross led his men into the village of Than Khe. They burned everything.
What is "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien?
100
Put the following terms in order: Climax Rising Action Falling Action Inciting Incident
What is inciting incident, rising action, climax, and falling action?
200
This author won an Academy Award for co-writing the movie Shakespeare in Love.
Who is Tom Stoppard?
200
A sudden realization, a flash of inspiration.
What is an epiphany?
200
It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I encountered my friend. He accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking much. The man wore motley. He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells. I was so pleased to see him that I thought I should never have done wringing his hand.
What is "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe?
200
The room is elaborately furnished and curtained, and on the wall there are several paintings and a not really attractive barometer. Soft theme music as the curtain rises.
What is "Death Knocks" by Woody Allen?
200
This Welsh author published his first book at age 20 and died of "chronic alcoholism" at age 39.
Who is Dylan Thomas?
300
An orphan, this author was adopted by a man who never fully accepted him/her. The author dropped out of college and was expelled from West Point “for cutting classes.” In 1835, this author married his/her thirteen-year-old cousin, who later died of tuberculosis. The author was an alcoholic who “died mysteriously” in 1849 in Baltimore.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
300
The invisible wall that separates the audience and the actors in a play.
What is the fourth wall?
300
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;/Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;/Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood./For nothing now can ever come to any good.
What is "Stop All the Clocks" by W. H. Auden?
300
Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
What is "Araby" by James Joyce?
300
An example of a "coming of age story."
(Various possible answers: "A&P," "Hills Like White Elephants," "Araby," Life of Pi)
400
This reclusive author was known for wearing all white.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
400
The repetition of the initial consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
400
When the next generation, with its more modern ideas, became mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created some little dissatisfaction. On the first of the year they mailed her a tax notice. February came, and there was no reply. They wrote her a formal letter, asking her to call at the sheriff’s office at her convenience.
What is "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner?
400
The Eyes around – had wrung them dry –/And Breaths were gathering firm/For that last Onset – when the King/Be witnessed – in the Room –
What is "I Heard a Fly Buzz" by Emily Dickinson?
400
The narrator of "The Cask of Amontillado" was this kind of narrator.
What is an unreliable narrator?
500
This author was Irish and struggled with eye trouble.
Who is James Joyce?
500
A character or a nonhuman force that opposes or is in conflict with the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
500
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright/Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,/Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
What is "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas?
500
The first thing is that the audience appear to beconfronted by their own reflection in a huge mirror. Impossible. However, bock there in the gloom – not at the footlights – a bank of plush seats and pale smudges of faces.
What is "The Real Inspector Hound" by Tom Stoppard?
500
Name the author and story title: "Now here comes the sad part of the story, at least my family says it's sad, but I don't think it's so sad myself."
What is "A&P" by John Updike?