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Beowulf and the Monomyth
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Ballads
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Shakespeare
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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Animal Farm
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Catcher in the Rye
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1 - 100 Written in verse and featuring a larger-than-life hero, Beowulf is an example of this type of poem.
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1 - 100 What is an epic poem?
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Since Beowulf was passed along by word-of-mouth, it is an example of this type of tradition.
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1 - 100 What is an oral tradition?
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The monster Grendel is a descendant of this Biblical villain – the first murderer, according to Christianity.
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1 - 100 Who is Cain?
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This is Joseph Campbell’s term for an object that saves the day and has healing properties.
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1 - 100 What is the elixir?
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This is Joseph Campbell’s term for the “doorway” to adventure in his model of the monomyth.
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1 - 100 What is “the threshold”?
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1 - 100 In “Long Black Veil,” this is the reason why the speaker does not provide an alibi.
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1 - 100 What is he was having an affair with his friend’s wife?
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The howling at the end of “All Along the Watchtower” suggests this.
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1 - 100 What is impending conflict?
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Bob Dylan’s use of contractions suggests that his audience is primarily composed of these people.
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1 - 100 What is common people?
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In “Blowin’ in the Wind,” the contrasting imagery of the dove and the cannonballs symbolize this.
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1 - 100 What is peace and war?
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“All Along the Watchtower” features types of characters – such as “the joker” and “the thief” – which Carl Jung called this.
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1 - 100 What are archetypes?
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1 - 100 A Shakespearean sonnet is also known as this type of sonnet.
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1 - 100 What is an Elizabethan sonnet?
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Othello’s ethnicity is this, which means he is a dark-skinned man of Arabic or African descent.
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1 - 100 What is a Moor?
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Iago tells Othello to beware of jealousy, for it is this.
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1 - 100 What is the green-eyed monster?
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This was usually the function of the rhyming couplet at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet.
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1 - 100 What is an ironic twist or a summary?
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When Iago says “it is thought abroad that ’twixt the sheets he [Othello] has done my office,” he means this.
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1 - 100 What is slept with Iago’s wife (Emilia)?
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1 - 100 The Importance of Being Earnest offers commentary on this time period, named for the queen of England at the time.
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1 - 100 What is the Victorian Age?
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This is Algernon’s nickname for leading a double life; it is derived from the name of his contrived ailing uncle.
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1 - 100 What is bunburrying?
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Oscar Wilde was born and raised in this country.
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1 - 100 What is Ireland?
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This type of character – such as Lady Bracknell – obstructs the relationship of another character.
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1 - 100 What is a blocking figure?
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The play includes a lot of this type of humor, which revolves around the physical movements of the actors.
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1 - 100 What is burlesque humor?
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1 - 100 The novel is an example of this type of story, as it can be read on both the literal and the symbolic level.
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1 - 100 What is an allegory?
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Old Major represents this figure from the Russian Revolution, as he provides the impetus for the revolution, but dies before it begins.
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1 - 100 Who is Karl Marx?
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Snowball represents this figure from the Russian Revolution, as he is a well-educated leader that is eventually led into exile.
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1 - 100 Who is Leon Trotsky?
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Napoleon represents this figure from the Russian Revolution, as he becomes a tyrant and changes laws to meet his own needs.
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1 - 100 Who is Joseph Stalin?
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This character who meets his end at the glue factory is named in reference to a famous rebellion in China.
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1 - 100 Who is Boxer?
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1 - 100 This is the name of the school that Holden flunks out of at the beginning of the book.
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1 - 100 What is Pencey Prep?
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This is the name for a recurring theme, object, or idea in a work of literature.
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1 - 100 What is a motif?
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As she is highly advanced for her age, Phoebe could be considered this. (An adjective; a typical type of character in Salinger’s works)
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1 - 100 What is precocious?
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This item chiefly reinforces the motif of protection.
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1 - 100 What is the red hunting hat?
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This type of narration – an uninterrupted flow of thoughts from the character’s mind – is one of the reasons this book is considered a Modernist work.
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1 - 100 What is stream-of- consciousness?
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This Irish satirist wrote “A Modest Proposal” in response to his nation’s problem of hunger.
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Who is Jonathan Swift?
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