Atwood
Booker Prize winner
Atwood is a surname, most prominently associated with Margaret Atwood, the Canadian author of *The Handmaid's Tale* and other literary works.
The name also appears as a place name in various American towns.
As a surname, it derives from words meaning "at the wood"—someone who lived near a forest.
Writer of prose narratives
- poetWriter of verse
- essayistAuthor of short prose
- storytellerOne who recounts tales
- Booker PrizeBritish literary fiction award
prose · fiction · narrative · speculative · themes · symbolism · metaphor · imagery
Reproductive slavery narrative
- GileadTransjordanian territory in scripture
- totalitarianDictatorial, all-controlling regime
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
speculative fiction · theocracy · resistance · subjugation · ceremony
Traditional woman's name
- TorontoOntario's capital city
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- Booker PrizeBritish literary fiction award
- CBCCanada's public broadcaster
maple leaf · literary icon · national treasure · Order of Canada
Male-dominated social order
- genderSocial identity category
- women's rightsLegal equality for females
- bodily autonomyControl over one's physique
- reproductive rightsBodily autonomy in family planning
oppression · resistance · sisterhood · female protagonist · misogyny · empowerment · control · subversion
Metered poetic passage
- imageryVivid descriptive language
- metaphorImplied identity comparison
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- lyricismExpressive, melodic quality
alliteration · cadence · rhythm · poems · collections
novelist
Writer of prose narratives
- poetWriter of verse
- essayistAuthor of short prose
- storytellerOne who recounts tales
Booker Prize · prose · fiction · narrative · speculative · themes · symbolism · metaphor · imagery · satire
Handmaid's Tale
Reproductive slavery narrative
- GileadTransjordanian territory in scripture
- totalitarianDictatorial, all-controlling regime
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
oppression · speculative fiction · theocracy · resistance · subjugation · ceremony
Margaret
Traditional woman's name
- TorontoOntario's capital city
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- Booker PrizeBritish literary fiction award
CBC · maple leaf · literary icon · national treasure · Order of Canada
patriarchy
Male-dominated social order
- genderSocial identity category
- women's rightsLegal equality for females
- bodily autonomyControl over one's physique
reproductive rights · oppression · resistance · sisterhood · female protagonist · misogyny · empowerment · control · subversion · women's voices
verse
Metered poetic passage
lyricism · alliteration · cadence · rhythm · poems · collections
- Famous AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hemingway, Twain
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
- NovelistsStephen King, Agatha Christie, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen
- Modern AuthorsColson Whitehead, Sally Rooney, Colleen Hoover, Barbara Kingsolver, Donna Tartt
- KansasWichita, Dodge City, Lawrence, Topeka, Kansas City
AtwoodAyn Rand
Objectivist movement founder
Nicholas Sparks · Tom Clancy · Danielle Steel · Norman Mailer · Ernest Hemingway
AtwoodJohn Updike
Philip Roth · Toni Morrison · Cormac McCarthy · Thomas Pynchon · Stephen King
AtwoodNorman Mailer
Ayn Rand · Ernest Hemingway · Tom Wolfe · Jordan Peterson · Charles Bukowski