Across
- 1. painted The Starry Night
- 3. according to Judith Butler, gender is not what one is but what one…
- 4. symbol of freedom, death/rebirth, voyage, protection, isolation throughout literature
- 6. the color of the central symbol in “Rappaccini’s Daughter”
- 7. Roman god who sees simultaneously forwards and backwards
- 9. the shaping of a text’s meaning by another text
- 14. this type of humor is present in Kafka’s writing
- 15. major symbol in The Birth of Venus
- 18. verb meaning to arise, originate, wake up, rouse from sleep, become aware of something
- 19. Ancient Greek lyric poet on island of Lesbos
- 20. love interest in “Rappaccini’s Daughter” named after Dante’s spiritual muse
- 24. introduced the notion of intertextuality
- 25. painted American Gothic
- 26. sculpted The Thinker
- 28. character that changes and is protean
- 30. a short, musical flourish for brass and percussion
- 33. story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities
- 34. the goddess of the underworld, also represented in the brooch worn by the woman in American Gothic
- 35. the hero returns to the ordinary world at the end of their journey with the
- 36. person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself
Down
- 1. Edna’s departure into the water is seen as a reversal of the creation story of ___ coming to the shore
- 2. a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement
- 5. according to Freud, this part of our psyche mediates between the ID and EGO
- 6. Nighthawks was completed weeks after this famous historical event in American history
- 8. character or object that signifies something is about to change for hero
- 10. painting that depicts a quiet NYC restaurant at night
- 11. experience of being isolated from group/activity you once belonged to
- 12. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” is an example of
- 13. a symbol like the scarlet letter is said to be many meaning, or…
- 16. character who assists the hero by offering advice, assistance, or gifts
- 17. number that becomes important to our interpretation of Kafka’s book
- 21. ___ OF CONSCIOUSNESS; style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character’s mind
- 22. mythological river whose waters caused forgetfulness
- 23. a ballroom, folk dance
- 27. used to describe unnecessarily complicated and frustrating experiences that may turn absurd
- 29. inexpensive paintings by self-taught Mexican artists that depict personal thanks to saints
- 31. famous lyre player whose wife died
- 32. literary time period from 1900s-1940s that rebelled against expectations