21ST LIT TRIVIA Flashcards
1
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- Epics
- “The Iliad”
- “The Odyssey”
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Homer (Greek)
2
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- Tragic dramas
- Wrote over 100 plays, but only seven survived today
- Influenced golden age of Elizabethan Drama
- “Ajax”
- “Oedipus the King”
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- Sophocles (Greek)
3
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- “Aeneid” – national epic of Ancient Rome
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- Virgil (roman)
4
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- “The Gospel of St. Mark”
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- The Evangelist, Mark
5
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- “The Divine Comedy” – journey through hell > purgatory > paradise
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- Dante (italian)
6
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- Great giant of english poetry
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- Geoffrey Chaucer`
7
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- Monk and physician
- “The life of Gargantua”
- “Pantagruel”
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- Francois Rabelais (french)
8
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- “Don Quixote”
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- Miguel Cervantes
9
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- Jacobean poet
- Priest
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- John Milton
10
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- Baptist preacher
- “The Pilgrim’s Progress”
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- John Bunyan
11
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Candide”
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- Voltaire (french)
12
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- Also an artist
- “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”
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- William Blake
13
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- “Pride and Prejudice”
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- Jane Austen
14
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- Wrote fairytales
- “The Emperor’s New Clothes”
- “Thumbelina”
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- Hans Christian Andersen (danish)
15
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- “Oliver Twist”
- “A Tale of Two Cities”
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- Charles Dickens
16
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- “Moby-Dick”
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- Herman Melville
17
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“Madam Bovary”
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- Gustave Flaubert
18
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“Crime and Punishment”
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- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
19
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- Father of science fiction
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- Jules Verne (french)
20
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- “War and Peace”
- “Anna Karenina”
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- Leo Tolstoy (russian)
21
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- Wrote poems
- Used extensive dashes, dots
- “Hope”
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- Emily Dickinson
22
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- Mathematician
- “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
o Sequel: “Through the Looking Glass”
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- Lewis Caroll
23
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Ulysses
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- James Joyce (irish)
24
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- Wrote in German
- “The Stoker”
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- Franz Kafka
25
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- Awards:
o US Medal of Freedom
o Dante Gold Medal
o Goethe Prize
o Nobel Prize - “The Waste Land”
- “Four Quartets”
- “Murder in the Cathedral”
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- T.S. Elliot (Thomas Stearns Elliot)
26
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- “The Great Gatsby”
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- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
27
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- Wrote short fiction
- “Ficciones”
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- Jorge Luis Borges (argentine)
28
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- “Animal Farm”
- “Nineteen Eighty-Four”
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- George Orwell (irl: Eric Blair)
29
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- Won Noble Prize for Literature 1982
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- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (nickname: Gabi, Gabito) (colombian)