Literary History
Literary movement in the early 1800's that prioritizes subjectivity, nature, and emotion.
What is Romanticism?
British author who wrote Frankenstein when she was just nineteen
Who is Mary Shelley?
This mnemonic device adds a musical quality to poetry by introducing a pattern of similar sounds at the end of lines.
What is rhyme?
This character suffers a wide misconception of his name being the name of his creator.
Frankenstein's monster OR creature
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; / Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
"Ozymandias," Percy Shelley, poem
What is chivalry?
This author was married to Mary Shelley and is known for works featuring mythological figures such as "Ozymandias" and "Prometheus Unbound."
Who is Percy Shelley?
This poetic device features lines with words beginning with the same letter/sound.
What is alliteration?
This character is revealed to be the secret identity of The Green Knight.
Who is Lord Bertilak? (Or just the lord of the castle)
"And further," quoth the lord, "a bargain we’ll make:/ whatsoever I win in the wood is worthily yours; / and whatever here you achieve, exchange me for it."
The Pearl Poet, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," epic poetry
This literary genre was invented in the late 1700's, with its name referring to the newness of the form.
What is the novel?
Anonymous author of poems such as "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," "Pearl," "Patience," and "Cleanliness"
Who is the Pearl Poet?
This narrative structure tells a story within a story
What is a frame narrative?
This character is unjustly framed for William Frankenstein's death.
Who is Justine?
The monster is difference made flesh, come to dwell among us. It is supposed to be extremely different from us. It is the OTHER. It comes from the outside and the beyond. The monster is different from the culture that created it culturally, politically, racially, economically, and sexually.
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, "Monster Culture: Seven Theses," nonfiction
This form of the English language was used between 1100-1400 AD, and is the original dialect that "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" was written in.
What is Middle English?
This Romantic author was close friends with Percy and Mary Shelley, and is known for works such as "Prometheus" and "Don Juan."
Who is Lord Byron?
This type of poetry explores a narrator's interior emotions and subjective experiences, and is the basis of the music we listen to today.
What is lyric poetry?
This character is revealed to have orchestrated the beheading game in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" in order to test the chivalry of Arthur's Round Table.
Who is Morgan Le Fay?
"I shall quit your vessel on the ice raft which brought me thither and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe; I shall collect my funeral pile and consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its remains may afford no light to any curious and unhallowed wretch who would create such another as I have been."
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, fiction
This phenomenon is defined as being in awe and finding beauty in violent, destructive, or ginormous aspects in nature that the human brain has a hard time fully comprehending, and is featured in a lot of Romantic poetry and novels.
What is the sublime?
This author wrote the academic paper titled "Monster Culture: Seven Theses."
Who is Jeffrey Jerome Cohen?
This literary device is defined as a division or contrast between two things that are, or are represented as being, opposed or entirely different, and includes examples such as male vs female, nature vs nurture, fact vs intuition, science vs magic, public vs private, etc.
What is a dichotomy?
This illicit couple from Arthurian romances is frequently cited as an example of the ideological divide between marriage and romantic love in during medieval times.
Who is Queen Guinevere and Sir Lancelot?
...and someone will probably love you for who you are: / then you will know each other’s scents / and nuzzle or lope together. But for / now, you have friends, /who are not going anywhere. Please /stay here.
Stephanie Burt, "Prayer for Werewolves," lyric poetry