Beowulf and the Monomyth
The Canterbury Tales
Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Earnest
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
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Written in verse and featuring a larger-than-life hero, Beowulf is an example of this type of poem.
What is an epic poem?
Since Beowulf was passed along by word-of-mouth, it is an example of this type of tradition.
What is an oral tradition?
The monster Grendel is a descendant of this Biblical villain – the first murderer, according to Christianity.
Who is Cain?
This is Joseph Campbell’s term for an object that saves the day and has healing properties.
What is the elixir?
This is Joseph Campbell’s term for the “doorway” to adventure in his model of the monomyth.
What is “the threshold”?
This author of The Canterbury Tales includes himself in the story, as the narrator and one of the 30 pilgrims.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
This noble and chivalrous character looks like he is fresh from fighting in the Crusades, and his tale is a quintessential Medieval romance.
Who is the knight?
The typical chivalric romance usually included the recurrent motif of this number.
What is three?
This wrestler tells a ribald story that is the opposite of a quintessential Medieval romance.
Who is the miller?
This tale features an ironic moral – “Greed is the root of all evil” – ironic as its teller is quite greedy.
What is the Pardoner’s Tale?
A Shakespearean sonnet is also known as this type of sonnet.
What is an Elizabethan sonnet?
Othello’s ethnicity is this, which means he is a dark-skinned man of Arabic or African descent.
What is a Moor?
Iago tells Othello to beware of jealousy, for it is this.
What is the green-eyed monster?
This was usually the function of the rhyming couplet at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet.
What is an ironic twist or a summary?
When Iago says “it is thought abroad that ’twixt the sheets he [Othello] has done my office,” he means this.
What is slept with Iago’s wife (Emilia)?
The Importance of Being Earnest offers commentary on this time period, named for the queen of England at the time.
What is the Victorian Age?
This is Algernon’s nickname for leading a double life; it is derived from the name of his contrived ailing uncle.
What is bunburrying?
Oscar Wilde was born and raised in this country.
What is Ireland?
This type of character – such as Lady Bracknell – obstructs the relationship of another character.
What is a blocking figure?
The play includes a lot of this type of humor, which revolves around the physical movements of the actors.
What is burlesque humor?
The novel is an example of this type of story, as it can be read on both the literal and the symbolic level.
What is an allegory?
Old Major represents this figure from the Russian Revolution, as he provides the impetus for the revolution, but dies before it begins.
Who is Karl Marx?
Snowball represents this figure from the Russian Revolution, as he is a well-educated leader that is eventually led into exile.
Who is Leon Trotsky?
Napoleon represents this figure from the Russian Revolution, as he becomes a tyrant and changes laws to meet his own needs.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This character who meets his end at the glue factory is named in reference to a famous rebellion in China.
Who is Boxer?
He is the author of The Lord of the Flies.
Who is William Golding?
The Lord of the Flies is narrated from this perspective.
What is third person?
The phrase “Lord of the Flies” is actually a reference to this Biblical villain.
Who is the devil?
This is the part of the island where the plane crashes – its name evokes something that can never be erased.
What is the scar?
This is probably the reason the boys were on the island in the first place.
What is the threat of a third world war?
This Irish satirist wrote “A Modest Proposal” in response to his nation’s problem of hunger.
Who is Jonathan Swift?