Allusions
Rep the Def
Characters
Genre of Books
Know Your Author
100
"rags to riches"
What is Cinderella?
100
expressed in terms intended to persuade
What is a Rhetorical?
100
She wore the letter A over her breast and had a daughter named Pearl.
Who is Hester Prynne?
100
This book was an absurdist fiction
What is The Stranger?
100
He wrote the book with a character that had an absurdity kind of way of viewing life.
Who is Albert Camus?
200
a face that could launch a thousand ships
What is Helen of Troy?
200
An idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning
What is a connotation?
200
a monster that is in every way human and often capable of rational thought as well as irrational outbursts of emotion
Who is Grendel?
200
dark romanticism is a literary subgenre centered on the writers Edgar Allan Poe
What is The Scarlet Letter?
200
an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
Who is Mary Shelley?
300
bloody money
What is Judas?
300
the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
What is vernacular?
300
Her education prevented her femininity from showing and quite expression and emotionless
Who is Louisa Gradgrind?
300
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary plot element, theme, or setting, and within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic and magical creatures are common
What is Grendel?
300
An English writer known for being the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
Who is Charles Dickens?
400
Spoke 3,000 proverbs and wrote 1,005 songs.
What is Solomon?
400
a bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situation of the past
What is nostalgic?
400
He is psychologically detached from the world around him and doesn't care about anything that doesn't seem to matter to him.
Who is Meursault?
400
Horror fiction, horror literature and also horror fantasy are genres of literature, which are intended to, or have the capacity to frighten, scare, or startle their readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror
What is Frankenstein?
400
An American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor, and for retelling a story in the "monster's" point of view.
Who is John Gardener?
500
A man who is amorously and gallantly attentive to women; a promiscuous man
What is Casanova?
500
affectedly and irritatingly grand, solemn, or self-important.
What is pompous?
500
A young woman who enjoyed the physical contact with her love interest and his particular personality.
Who is Marie Cardona?
500
fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.
What is The Raven?