BB lit notes from Robies first Flashcards
Main character befriends a native, whom he names “Friday.”
Robinson Crusoe
What is the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn classified as?
Classified as a picaresque novel
who grew up in hannibal, missouri
Mark twain
If “mississipi river” guess which author?
Mark Twain
What is Kim by Kipling classified as?
Classified as a picaresque novel
“Shun the frumious Bandersnatch”
Jabberwocky
What is a Picaresque novel?
Depicts a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society
What is the second stop of Gullicer’s travels?
Second stop: Brobdingnag (home of giants)
Rum Tum Tugger
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
Natty Bumpo
The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer
What book was Inspiration for the Broadway musical “Cats” by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
100 stories told by 10 youths hiding from the Black Death outside Florence.
The Decameron
What type of story is The Decameron?
Frame Story
Sancho Panza
Don Quixote
The four sisters of the March family, the most important of which was Josephine “Jo” March
Little Women
Pangloss
Candide (Candide’s ridiculous tutor)
What is the first stop of Gullicer’s travels?
First stop: Lilliput (land of little people)
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan”
Kubla Khan
Starting point of The Canterbury Tales
The Tabard Inn
Tilting against windmills
Don Quixote
What are two of the five novels collectively known as the Leatherstocking Tales
The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer
Don Quixote
Don Quixote
What is a Bildungsroman?
A coming-of-age tale
Jellicle cats
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
Set in Nero’s Rome
Quo Vadis by Sienkiewick
The Republic of Gilead has replaced the USA
The Handmaid’s Tale
What elements does the novel Candide by Voltaire use?
Elements of a picaresque, but more a bildungsroman
Cunegone
Candide (Lady who is the object of Candide’s affections)
El dorado or “over the mountains in the moon”
El Dorado by poe
The kingdom by the sea
Anabellee
What book is a collection of Stories told by a company of pilgrims
The Canterbury Tales
Aldonza / Dulcinea
Don Quixote
What essay says that the British should eat the Irish babies.
A Modest Proposal
What author is classified as Metaphysical?
Donne
What was Mark twain’s first major work?
Celebrated jumping forg of Calaveras County
Setting: Yoknapatawpha County
(as are many of Faulkner’s works)
Candide
Candide
What type of Novel is Moll Flanders
Classified as a picaresque novel
Offred (the narrator and main character)
The Handmaid’s Tale
“The fog comes in / on little cat feet”
Fog by Sandburg
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever”
Endymion by Keats
“‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves”
Jabberwocky
“O my Luve’s like a red, red rose”
A Red, Red Rose
“All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.”
Pangloss’s enunciation of that philosophy: in candide by voltaire
“tin tin abulation” or the bells
The bells
Define: Frame Story
A literary technique where the introduction provides a framework for including a set of shorter pieces.
Written for and read at the 1993 inauguration of President Clinton
On the Wings of Morning
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
Sonnet 18 by shakespear
“Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright”
The Tyger
Destination of The Canterbury Tales
The Shrine of Thomas a’Becket at the Canterbury Cathedral
Old Deuteronomy
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
