Novel Review
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Oedipus
Hamlet
Importance
of Being
Earnest
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Invisible Man
Oedipus
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1. Who is the author of Oedipus Rex?
2. (50 more points) What are the
names of BOTH sets of Oedipus’s
parents (birth and adoptive)?
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Oedipus
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1. Sophocles
2. (50 more points)
Jocasta, Laius,
Polybus, and
Merope
Fractions
Oedipus
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1. What genre is this
text?
2. What did Oedipus have
to do in order to enter
his second home?
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Oedipus
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1.
2.
Greek Tragedy
Solve the Sphinx’s
Riddle
Oedipus
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1. Where was Oedipus
from and where did he
move to as an adult?
2. (50 more points) Where
was Oedipus found as
a child and exiled to?
Oedipus
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1.
Thebes; Corinth
2.
Mount Cithaeron
Oedipus
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1. What is the major
conflict in the play?
2. Climax?
3. Resolution?
Oedipus
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1. Tiresias tells Oedipus that
he is responsible for the
plague.
2. Oedipus realizes the
truth.
3. Jocasta kills herself,
Oedipus stabs his eyes,
and is exiled.
Oedipus
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Write a theme
statement about Truth.
(The best one receives
500 points to divide as
a group.)
Oedipus
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Write a theme statement about
Truth.
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to divide as a group.)
Hamlet
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1. What is the setting
(where)?
2. (50 more points) What is
the name of the
kingdom/castle where the
play is set?
Hamlet
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1. Denmark
2. Elsinore
Hamlet
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Name six characters who
betrayed Hamlet.
**(50 more points) Name one
character who NEVER betrayed
Hamlet.
Hamlet
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1.
Rosencrantz
2.
Guildenstern
3.
Polonius
4.
Gertrude
5.
Ophelia
6.
Claudius
**Horatio
Hamlet
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1. What does Hamlet
questioningly claim
throughout the play?
2. What is one example
of how he claims this?
Hamlet
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1. Madness
2. Varied answers
Hamlet
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1. What is one motif
in this play?
2. Who are two foils
in this play?
Hamlet
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1. Varied answers
(incest,
ears/hearing)
2. Laertes, Fortinbras
Hamlet
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Write a theme statement
about Revenge.
(The best one receives 500
points to divide as a
group.)
Synonyms
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Varied answers
Earnest
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1. Who is the author of this
play?
2. Where does the play take
place?
Ernest
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1. Oscar Wilde
2. Worthing, England
Ernest
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What genre is this play
considered?
Ernest
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Satire
Ernest
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What is the climax?
(Correct names must be used.)
Ernest
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Gwendolyn and
Cecily discover that
Algernon and Jack
have been lying to
them about both
being “Ernest”
Ernest
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1. What main literary
technique does the author
employ?
2. What is the main example of
this?
Ernest
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1. Puns
2. Ernest/Earnest
Ernest
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Write a theme statement about
Tradition.
(The best one receives 500
points.)
Ernest
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Varied answers
Invisible Man
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1. Who is the author?
2. What is the setting
predominantly throughout
the novel?
Invisible Man
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1. Ralph Ellison
2. Harlem, New York
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Invisible Man
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1. What literary
technique does the
author use at the
beginning of the
book and then at the
very end?
Invisible Man
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Prologue & Epilogue;
Motif of Boomerang
Invisible Man
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1. Who is a foil of the narrator?
2. Where does the narrator first
work when he moves north?
Who is his boss there?
Invisible Man
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1. Ras the
Exhorter
2. Liberty Paints;
Lucius
Brockway
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Invisible Man
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What are seven motifs
used throughout the
novel?
Invisible Man
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1. blindness;
invisibility; jazz and
blues music; masks;
light; darkness; Booker
T. Washington; Dubois;
sex; vision; dreams
Invisible Man
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Write a theme statement about
Identity.
(The best one receives 500 points.)
Invisible Man
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Varied answers