Frankenstein
This ambitious college student creates life and immediately decides he has made a terrible mistake.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
“The wind whispered through the trees” gives a human action to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
A college kid builds a guy, hates him immediately, and spends the rest of the book dealing with the consequences.
What is Frankenstein?
This character describes the Creature he brought to life and then immediately runs away from him.
Who is Victor Frankenstein?
This playwright created Romeo, Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and approximately one billion English-class assignments.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Victor travels to this German city to attend university and begin the studies that eventually lead to his experiment.
What is Ingolstadt?
A writer describes a basement as “damp, lightless, cramped, and suffocating” to make readers feel uneasy. This feeling experienced by the reader is called this.
What is mood?
A rich guy throws enormous parties because apparently just texting the woman he likes isn't dramatic enough.
What is The Great Gatsby?
This explorer writes letters to his sister, Margaret Saville, while attempting to reach the North Pole.
Who is Robert Walton?
A story that begins in the middle of the action rather than at the chronological beginning uses this Latin-named technique.
What is in medias res?
After William is murdered, this innocent character is accused and executed for the crime.
Who is Justine Moritz?
A writer repeatedly describes a character's home as a “cage,” although it isn't literally one, using the cage to represent the character's lack of freedom.
What is symbolism?
A woman spends years figuring out that other people's expectations don't get to decide who she is. Also, there's a hurricane.
What is Their Eyes Were Watching God?
This Great Gatsby narrator introduces himself by remembering his father's advice about judging other people.
Who is Nick Carraway?
This type of character serves as a contrast to another character, helping emphasize differences between them.
What is a foil?
Victor sees the Creature during a lightning storm near this location shortly after William's death.
What is his childhood home in Geneva?
A frantic character's thoughts are written as one long sentence filled with commas and repeated conjunctions. The writer is manipulating this element to imitate the character's mental state.
What is syntax?
A mother gives her daughter approximately 900 instructions without apparently stopping to breathe.
What is “Girl”?
This character argues that he should have been Victor's “Adam” but has instead become like a “fallen angel.”
Who is the Creature?
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein uses this structure because Walton's letters contain Victor's story, which eventually contains another character's story.
What is a frame narrative?
This character writes letters to his sister while exploring the Arctic.
Who is Robert Walton?
A narrator describes a supposedly “brilliant” plan using mocking language while clearly suggesting the plan is foolish. This discrepancy between the literal words and intended meaning is this device.
What is verbal irony?
A girl arrives somewhere unfamiliar, looks at the enormous landscape around her, and suddenly realizes that Nebraska is basically trying to swallow her whole.
What is My Ántonia?
This narrator delivers an almost nonstop stream of instructions about cooking, cleaning, relationships, behavior, and how a young woman should present herself.
Who is The Mother?
This Greek-derived term describes the excessive pride or arrogance that often contributes to a tragic hero's downfall.
What is hubris?