British Lit Final F24

Which character leads a double life using an imaginary invalid friend, Bunbury, to get out of boring engagements?

What critical lens asks the reader to relate the text to themselves on a personal level?

 The __________ of a work is the writer’s central idea or main message about life. It may be either implicit or explicit.

Iago: The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. Fig. lang.?

What critical lens would focus on the socioeconomic class and class economics in a text?

What happens to Othello in the end?

The Importance of Being Earnest is considered what kind of play?

 Which character represents idea of being respectable on the surface (country) and deceptive for pleasure (city)

A figure of speech that gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea is ______________________________.

James Baldwin, author of "Stranger in the Village," is from what country?

A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is spoken of as if it were another

Which of the following sentences is in formal register?

How does Othello kill his wife?

Which critical lens would study the race, ethnicity, and culture? Also, dominant and marginalized groups in a culture.

A (an) ____ is a reference to a well-known person, event, or place from history, music, art, or another literary work.a.  

How did Desdemona fall in love with Othello?

Which of the following sentences is in active voice?

A reader response critical perspective would most likely ask which question about the text?

Figure of speech that compares two things using “like” or “as.”

Irony when the reader or audience knows more about the circumstances  or future events of a story than the characters

Which sentence is in an informal voice?

A form of irony that occurs when an event contradicts the expectations of a character or reader is

What surprises Baldwin when he first gets to the Swiss village?

What was Wilde’s purpose for creating The Importance of Being Earnest?

What critical lens would focus on gender roles, how women are treated, and how genders treat each other?

The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices

Which critical lens would involve researching an author's historical time period and the impact of history on the author

Which of the following sentences is in passive voice?

What two reasons does Iago give for being upset with Othello at the beginning of the play?

A cultural critical perspective would ask which question about Brabantio's speech when he finds out Des married Othello

Who first puts the pieces together and points the finger at Iago?

Desdemona jokes with Iago. Which explanation fits the Marxist lens?

Iago: Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. Fig Lang?

What critical lens looks at universal patterns across different cultures and time periods?

Universal symbols-images, characters, motifs, or patterns-recur in myths, dreams, oral traditions, songs, literature,

What does Roderigo want more than anything else?

If I analyze Othello as a tragic hero using the Archetypal Critical Lens, what is one of his “fatal flaws”?

Iago starts a rumor about Desdemona and Cassio.  What does he basically say?

A feminist critical perspective would most likely ask which question about the text?

The title The Importance of Being Earnest suggests that being honest is valuable, but characters aren't honest. Device?