The punctuation that belongs in the following blank:
“After sledding, we drank hot cocoa ______ then we went back into the snow.”
What is a semicolon?
100
This earliest surviving work of dramatic theory by Sophocles used Oedipus as an example of the ideal tragic hero.
What is The Poetics?
100
Overwhelming feelings of pity and fear that purge away all other feelings
What is "Catharsis"?
100
Achebe took the title of his novel from this W.B. Yeats poem.
What is "The Second Coming"?
100
This point of view speaks directly to the audience with pronouns like “you.”
What is 2nd person?
200
The root of the word “stationary.”
What is stare/statum?
200
“Tragic hero” is just one example of this recurrent symbol/motif that appears across cultures in literature, art, and mythology and is the focus of a critical approach to literature.
What is archetype?
200
The two living members of Oedipus’s family at the end of Antigone.
Who are Creon and Ismene?
200
Breaking this food and sharing it with guests is part of being a welcoming host.
What is the kola nut?
200
Annie Dillard recommends we start living like this wild animal.
What is weasel?
300
Word with the roots “De” + “Functum”
What is "defunct"?
300
This Marxist term is also used to describe the domination of a culturally diverse society by the perceptions/standards of the ruling class.
What is cultural hegemony?
300
A plot device in which the audience’s or reader’s knowledge of events or individuals surpasses that of the characters.
What is dramatic irony?
300
This bff of Okonkwo brings him news of Umuofia during Okonkwo’s exile.
Who is Obierika?
300
This structure begins and ends with the same or very similar idea, image, and/or event.
What is circular structure?
400
The two roots of the word “Composite”
What is “Com” + “Positum/Ponere”
400
This policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means has been practiced by both the US and Britain.
What is imperialism?
400
Distinct, recurring idea in a literary work, for example “blindness” in Oedipus
What is motif?
400
This panel of elders serves as a sacred jury for disputes in the village.
What is the egwugwu?
400
This special type of characterization requires readers to draw conclusions about characters based on various evidence from the story.
What is indirect characterization?
500
The meaning of the root “Facere”
What is to do/to make?
500
This seminal text of feminist criticism proposed that female writers must kill both the angel and the monster in the house in order to break free of literature’s narrow aesthetic ideal of woman.
What is "Madwoman in the Attic"?
500
A seeming contradiction that sounds impossible but is in fact possible
What is paradox?
500
Nwoye’s conversion to Christianity is foreshadowed by his reaction to this controversial tribal custom.
What is leaving twins to die in the Evil Forest.
500
An extended ___________________ compares two unlike things point by point over the course of a whole paragraph, stanza, or even entire work.