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Name that Character Poetry Puzzlers Prose Problems Drama Queens 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500

Row 1, Col 1 What is symbolism? The cross of snow in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem of the same name is a literal scene that he feels captures the aching sense of loss he feels eighteen years after his wife’s death, creating this.

1,2 What is paradox? When speaking of the wisdom of children, William Wordsworth wrote, “The child is the father of man.”

1,3 What is villanelle? Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Art of Losing” was written with this structure with nineteen lines, five tercets and a concluding quatrain, with two alternately repeating refrains.

1,4 What is the volta? The major shift in tone or from problem to solution, question to answer, in a sonnet is called this.

1,5 What is a metaphor used to comfort her loved one in the face of her imminent death? Christina Rosetti’s poem, “Remember,” describes heaven as a “silent land,” utilizing this figure of speech and creating this effect.

2,1 What is a symbol representing the dream of harmonious integration/desegregation in “A Worn Path”? The mirage of the piece of marble cake that appeared to Phoenix Jackson in this short story utilizes this device to convey this meaning.

2,2 What are flashbacks? The device utilized Cyril Dabydeen in “Mammita’s Garden Cove” when Max recalls scenes from his youth in the West Indies.

2,3 What is synecdoche? “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.”

2,4 What is metonymy? “The pen is mightier than the sword.”

2,5 What is paradox? Meursault utilizes this when he says of the Chaplain (who tried unsuccessfully to get him to convert to a belief in God on Death Row), “He wasn’t even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.”

3,1 What is aside? • Iago utilizes this dramatic term in scheming with • Roderigo to avoid detection as the duplicitous • villain that he is.

3,2 What is a dramatic monologue? When Polonius issues a long lecture to Laertes before sending him off to France with the ironic concluding advice “To thine own self be true,” he has delivered this kind of speech.

3,3 Who is a parallel character to Hamlet? Laertes is this kind of character when he asks “What ceremony else?” in his desire that more respect be paid by others in the wake of Ophelia’s death.

3,4 What is chiasmus and metatheater to illustrate his belief that theater plays an important role as a mirror to the human condition of all mankind? Shakespeare utilizes this syntax device and this drama term (2 terms) when he has Hamlet advise the actors, saying, “Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.” Together, these devices illustrate this theme.

3, 5 What is an oxymoron to describe Desdemona, conveying his inner conflict between loving her and hating her? Othello exclaims, “Excellent wretch!” In this scene, he is utilizing this literary term to describe this person, conveying this about his feelings.

4,1 Who is Maxine? The name of the narrator of Woman Warrior

4,2 Who is Polonius? Ophelia’s father

4,3 Who are Olivia and Adam? The names of Celie’s children.

4,4 Who is Grete? Gregor’s sister in “The Metamorphosis”

4,5 Who are the DeLaceys (Felix, Safie, Agatha, and their blind father)? The character(s) responsible for the Creature’s gift with words.

3,5 Who is Brabantio? Desdemona’s father

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