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Literary Terms and Stories: A Reference Guide, Quizzes of Contemporary Literature

Definitions and summaries of various literary terms and stories by famous authors. Included are definitions for terms such as 'allegory', 'consumption', 'entail', and 'original sin'. Summaries of stories by authors like hemingway, hawthorne, kafka, and bronte are also included.

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2011/2012

Uploaded on 03/01/2012

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Hills Like White Elephants
Author
DEFINITION 1
Hemingway.
TERM 2
Young Goodman Brown Author
DEFINITION 2
Hawthorne
TERM 3
Metamorphosis Author
DEFINITION 3
Kafka
TERM 4
The Story of an Hour Author
DEFINITION 4
Chopin
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The Yellow Wallpaper Author
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Gilman
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Hills Like White Elephants

Author

Hemingway.

TERM 2

Young Goodman Brown Author

DEFINITION 2

Hawthorne

TERM 3

Metamorphosis Author

DEFINITION 3

Kafka

TERM 4

The Story of an Hour Author

DEFINITION 4

Chopin

TERM 5

The Yellow Wallpaper Author

DEFINITION 5

Gilman

Where are you going... Author

Oates

TERM 7

Death by Landscape Author

DEFINITION 7

Atwood

TERM 8

Jane Eyre Author

DEFINITION 8

Bronte

TERM 9

Allegory

DEFINITION 9

arepresentationofanabstractorspiritualmeaningthroughconcreteo

TERM 10

The Quest

DEFINITION 10

a journey towards a goal, serves as aplotdevice and

(frequently) as a symbol

Consumption

Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB (short for tubercle bacillus) is a

common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease; Helen

Burns died of TB

TERM 17

Typhus

DEFINITION 17

also been calledcamp fever, jail fever, and war fever, names

that suggest overcrowding, underwashing, and lowered

standards of living;

TERM 18

Entail

DEFINITION 18

a practice commonly used to preserve the integrity of landed

estates by willing the contingent remainder of any estate to

unborn

TERM 19

Young Goodman Brown Summary

DEFINITION 19

Goodman Brown goes on a "quest" in the middle of the night in

the woods to meet the devil and leaves his wife, Faith, behind. He

then starts to see everyone from the village with the devil,

including a ribbon that symbolizes Faith, his wife. After leaving the

forest and returning to the village the next morning, he feels that

everyone he sees is evil and "He doesnt trust anyone in his village,

cant believe the words of the minister, and doesnt fully love his

wife. He lives the remainder of his life in gloom and fear." -

Sparknotes

TERM 20

Hills Like White Elephants

Summary

DEFINITION 20

A couple are on a train and are drinking alcohol, they seem to be

enjoying themselves until the man brings up wanting the girl to have an

operation (abortion). She expresses concern about what will happen after

the operation, he assures her it will remain like before and fix all of there

problems. She tells him that she will have the operation as long as hell

still love her and theyll be able to live happily together afterward. The

American weakly says that she shouldnt have the operation if thats really

the way she feels. They argue for a while until the girl gets tired and

makes the American promise to stop talking. He asks her how she is, she

says "fine."

Metamorphosis Summary

Gregor is transformed into a bug, but is still more concerned with getting

to work on time. He is concerned with paying off his parents' debt. His

isolation from people continues to grow now that he is no longer human.

His sister tries to take care of him at first, and his family have to find

work. Grete then starts to try to care for bug-Gregor's needs (moving

furniture). Gregor becomes injured by an apple, they take in renters

which Gregor scares away when he hears his little sister play the violin.

As Gregor becomes more of an outkast his health also deteriorates until

he dies. The family is relieved and can now focus on Grete becoming a

woman instead of girl.

TERM 22

The Story of an Hour Summary

DEFINITION 22

Louise has heart trouble, finds out her husband died

suddenly, is relieved and excited to be "free" from marriage

and independent. She then finds out he is not dead and dies

to escape being with him.

TERM 23

The Yellow Wallpaper Summary

DEFINITION 23

She suffers from nervous depression and her husband, a doctor, demands she have little activity including work and take away all of her writing utensils as treatment. She starts to notice patterns in the yellow wallpaper of the room she is in. The wallpaper then becomes all that she can think about until she "loses" herself when thinking about the paper. She then starts to see a woman in the paper trying to get out, creeping during the day and shaking the bars at night. She goes insane and begins to tear the paper down to free the trapped woman. By the end, the narrator is hopelessly insane, convinced that there are many creeping women around and that she herself has come out of the wallpaperthat she herself is the trapped woman TERM 24

Where are you going... Summary

DEFINITION 24

Connie is obsessed with her appearance, sneaks out with friends,

sees a strange man who says Gonna get you, baby. One day her

family leaves to go to a picnic and she stays behind, this strange

man, Arnold, arrives and wants her to go for a ride. It is

supernatural when he sems to know exactly what her parents are

doing/wearing. He tells her to not touch the phone, she gets dizzy

and feels as though Arnold is stabbing her... again and again with

no tenderness. She finally succumbs and goes outside with him.

TERM 25

Death by Landscape Summary

DEFINITION 25

Lois has artwork of forest on her wall. She recalls Camp Manitou

and having a best friend, Lucy,there who was like the opposite of

her. Lucy was different their last year at camp due to her parents'

divorce. Lucy and Lois go to a lookout point when Lucy tells Lois

she has to pee. Lois then hears a scream and cannot find Lucy. No

one is able to find Lucy and then the police question Lois, hinting

that she may have pushed Lucy. Lois cannot get over Lucy's death

and feels that Lucy is within each and every painting on the wall.