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The term for a character who displays an easily recognizable set of traits within a particular story
What is "Character Architype"?
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The term for a literary analysis that highlights moments or characters that complicate our understanding of "normal"
What is Queer Theory?
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What is "So it goes"?
Tralfamadorian philosophy; everything is happening at the same time and individual actions are predetermined.
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What is literary fiction
A type of novel that does not have a defined speculation (past, future), and thinks about human nature in the present.
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What is a woman's disguise in comedy? (purpose)
A tool used to spend time with their lover unaccompanied.
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What is Fantasy?
A type of literature that uses nonreal settings or concepts (magic, dragons) to make sense of the past.
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The Institution is responsible for Blackheart's villainy. This is an example of what type of social action?
Scapegoating
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What is the best justification to show the war being fought by people who act like children?
To show that consequences will be given to the young people fighting, rather than the people in charge.
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What is the reason twentieth century families had so many children?
Lack of access to healthcare
Poverty Social expectations of women's place in the home |
The biggest social indicator that a woman was unsuitable for marriage during the Renaissance.
What is pants?
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What is city comedy?
A type of Renaissance play that is humorous, set in London, and ends in a marriage.
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The term and reasoning for Nimona's actions in the graphic novel.
What is trauma?
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The reasoning behind Billy's time-travel as a mode of escaping from or making sense of his reality.
What is PTSD?
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The relationship characterized by obsession, disrespect, and an unrealistic belief in the future.
What is Florentine's relationship with Jean?
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What is spectacle?
The part of a play that will draw an audience in, generally because it is unusual or bawdy (rude).
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What is Feminist Criticism?
A type of literary analysis that highlights barriers women have in society, and recognizes women's strengths and abilities as equal to men.
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What type of narrative subversion occurs at the end of the novel when Blackheart becomes the "hero"?
Good versus evil
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What is Science Fiction?
A type of literature that uses futuristic settings and technology to ask questions about the future and human nature.
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Why does Florentine marry Emmanuel?
Ending the cycle of poverty
Social and financial security Responsibility |
What is the reason for Moll's duel with Laxton?
Power
belief that women should be sexually available to him |
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The term for a type of literary analysis that uses ideas of power, religion, gender, or politics to define relationships between groups.
What is Cultural Criticism?
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The interaction between individuals, society, or themselves, that causes tension in a narrative.
What is conflict?
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What is "Slaughterhouse-5 or The Children's Crusade?"
An anti-war novel arguing that war was fought only by children who were being told what to do, where nobody had any control over their lives
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The social criteria that impacts Quebec's relationship with France.
What is culture?
What is language? |
The primary historical influence in the development of Renaissance comedies.
What is Greek Comedy?
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