Literary devices
Literary works
Movies
Animal Farm
Vocabulary
100

the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion ).


What is a simile ?

100

The best known book by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley  

Who wrote Frankenstein ?

100

When the camera is placed from a short distance that gives a very detailed picture

What is a close-up ?

100

Napoleon

What is the name of the tyrannical pig ?

100
the opening of a manuscript, early printed book, and by extension any narrative  text.


What is an incipit ?

200

a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept. E.g: the pen is mightier than the sword

What is a metonimy ?

200

He wrote Brave New World

Who  was Aldous Huxley?

200

a cinematic technique where the camera looks down on the subject from a higher point

What is a high-angle shot ?

200

Eric Arthur Blair

What was the real name of George Orwell ?

200

the main events of a play, novel, film, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

What is a plot ?

300

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them :Her tears were a river flowing 

What is a metaphor ?

300

A  Shakespeare´s play that features the balcony scene

What is Romeo and Juliet ?

300

movies that include singing and/or dancing as an important element and also involves the performance of song and/or dance by the main characters

What is a musical ?

300

to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy.

Why do animals rebel against humans ?.

300

In literature, something that is  a warning or indication of (a future event). 

What is forshadowing ?

400

A narration in which the teller of the tale, who often appears to speak with the voice of the author himself, assumes an all-knowing perspective on the story being told

What is an omniscient narrator ?

400

She wrote To Kill a mocking bird

Who wad Harper Lee ?

400

a shot in which the camera angle is positioned below the eye line of the subject, pointing upward.

What is a low-angle shot?

400

Because the characters and events of Animal Farm represent the real people and events of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath.  

Why is Animal Farm an allegory?


400

a piece of writing that employs dark and picturesque scenery, startling and melodramatic narrative devices, and an overall atmosphere of exoticism, mystery, fear, and dread.

What is Gothic literature ?

500

the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.: The police station got robbed

What is irony ?

500

He wrote Dracula

Who was Bram Stoker ?

500

He was called the master of suspense

who was Alfred Hitchcock ?

500

Mr. Jones

What is the name of the farmer ?

500

This literary movement stresses subjectivity and an emphasis on individualism; spontaneity; freedom from rules; solitary life rather than life in society; the beliefs that imagination is superior to reason and devotion to beauty; love of and worship of nature.

what is Romanticism?