lit Flashcards
Farewell to Arms
Hemingway
WWI novel about the soldier Frederic Henry, who deserts the Italian army
Farewell to Arms
this novel’s protagonist flees to switzerland after the battle of Caporetto and falls in love with a British nurse named Catherine Barkley
Farewell to Arms
this novel’s protagonist plays billiards with Count Greffi and is introduced to his lover by the surgeon Rinaldi
Farewell to Arms
this novel ends with the protagonist waling towards his hotel in the rain
Farewell to Arms
In this novel, bottles of kummel lead Miss van Campen to suspect the protagonist’s jaundice was caused by his alcoholism.
Farewell to Arms
Two characters escape across Lake Maggiore [muhJORae] to avoid one’s execution by the military police.
Farewell to Arms
This novel’s main female character is accused of having no shame by her former friend Helen Ferguson, who works with Lieutenant (*) Rinaldi.
Farewell to Arms
This novel’s protagonist leaves his lover’s dead body, which was “like saying goodbye to a statue,” and walks back to the hotel in the rain in its ending, which was rewritten 47 times.
Farewell to Arms
Crowell Rodgers gives the protagonist of this book a tip about which horse to bet on at the races. After this novel’s protagonist returns from a horse race with the Meyerses, he comforts his love interest who claims that “rain is very hard on loving.”
Farewell to Arms
At one point in this novel, one character hides under a tarp covering stockpile artillery on a train bound for Milan and reunites with his lover in Stresa.
Farewell to Arms
Beowulf
who knows
this Old English epic about the title Geatish slayer of Grendel.
Beowulf
One character in this work dies after getting his arm ripped off during a battle in Hrothgar’s mead-hall
Beowulf
This work’s title character is challenged by (*) Breca to a swimming contest and it opens with the funeral of Scyld Scefing.
Beowulf
In this poem, Unferth mocks a visiting warrior over his swimming match with Breca, but lends him the sword (*) Hrunting for a battle with an underwater monster
Beowulf
A (*) descendent of Cain and its mother are defeated by the protagonist of this epic
Beowulf
This poem ends with mourning of its title character as “Kindest to his people and keenest to win fame.” The epithet “God-cursed” for a villain of this poem reflects that character’s descent from Cain.
Beowulf
This work’s protagonist dies in a fight against a dragon while accompanied by Wiglaf.
Beowulf
A character in this work uses a heavy sword from the “days of the giants” to decapitate a creature he reached after swimming for a day
Beowulf
This poem’s title character is welcomed by Queen Wealhtheow [WAYL-thay-oh] at a feast where he describes a swimming match against Breca
Beowulf
In a story in this work, the corpses of an uncle and nephew who fought on opposite sides of a battle are burned in the same fire on the orders of the wife of the Frisian king Finn.
Beowulf
Catch 22
Heller
Yossarian’s attempts to leave the Air Force are thwarted by the title paradox in what novel
Catch 22
Doc Daneeka repeatedly raises the mission quota and prohibits anyone from pleading insanity to escape, since that demonstrates their sanity
Catch 22
a character censoring letters signs them “Washington Irving” while under Doc Daneeka’s care
Catch 22
One character in this novel is named Vice-Shah of Oran, Imam of Damascus, and Caliph of Baghdad
Catch 22
Chocolate-covered cotton is sold by (*) M&M Enterprises in this novel, in which an IBM machine promotes a man to Major Major Major Major
Catch 22
A character in this novel repeats “I’m cold” after he is shot, leading another character to wonder “Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?”
Catch 22
One character in this novel was a “human divining rod” for oil, leading companies to follow him to find large deposits.
Catch 22
Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky
character in this novel relates how Snark poisoned an entire squadron because he put soap in the sweet potatoes, while a third was investigated by the FBI for majoring in English history.
Catch 22
The protagonist of this novel is stabbed by (*) Nately’s whore after she blames him for the death of Nately.
Catch 22
One character in this novel answers “Because they have a better shape than horse chestnuts,” when asked why he stuffs crabapples into his cheeks. That character, Orr, later escapes to Sweden.
Catch 22
Raskolinikov kills a pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovan
Crime and Punishment
main character is gives money to support the family of Marmeladov after he is killed in a carriage accident
Crime and Punishment
the sister of teh protagonist breaks off her engagement with the lawyer Luzhin and is pursued by the depraved Svidrigailov
Crime and Punishment
protagonist is taunted by Svidriga and pursued by porify Petrovich
Crime and Punishment
Sonya follows the protagonist to Siberia, urges the main character to admit a certain action and reads this novels protagonist the story of Lazarus
Crime and Punishment
in a dream in this novels epiloguue, microbes cause people to believe they are in sole possession of the truth
Crime and Punishment
a nobleman nicknames a policeman “Achilles” and says that he is “going to America” before shooting himself in the head
Crime and Punishment
man has troubling dream in which several drunkards beat a horse to death
Crime and Punishment
one character in this work wonders if the afterlife consists of a bathouse full of spiders
Crime and Punishment
In this novel, a policeman saves the life of a woman with red, sunken eyes who threw herself into a river.
Crime and Punishment
Ender’s Game
Card
Andrew Wiggins attends battle school
Ender’s Game
Mazer Rackham aids this character in defeating the Formics after graduating from Battle School
Ender’s Game
In this novel, armies equipped with freeze guns battle in (*) null gravity, and the protagonist of this novel befriends Bean, who helps him use “Dr Device” to destroy the home planet of the buggers
Ender’s Game
a character in this book was mentored by Petra Arkanian, whom he defeated at the head of (*) Dragon Army alongside his “Shadow,” Bean
Ender’s Game
a character in this novel demands that his followers inform him why they are all upside down, and says “the enemy’s gate is down.”
Ender’s Game
This novel’s protagonist wins a guessing game by tearing out the eye of a giant
Ender’s Game
Two characters in this novel write political essays under the pseudonyms Locke and Demosthenes
Ender’s Game
In this novel, Major Imbu discusses the murder of Stilson while Bonzo’s body is being transported back to Spain
Ender’s Game
Heart of Darkness
Conrad
the horror, the horror and exterminate all the brutes
Heart of Darkness
travels to find ivory trader, Mr. Kurtz
Heart of Darkness
Charles Marlow travels up Congo River
Heart of Darkness
compares city to whited sepulchre
Heart of Darkness
woman mours the death of a man named Marlowe
Heart of Darkness
place on the Nellie, a boat that goes to Africa
Heart of Darkness
The title woman marries Mr. Rochester in
Jane Eyre
narrarator is assisted by Russian namesd Harlequin
Heart of Darkness
pilgrims refers to men with sharpened staves he ferried on the river
Heart of Darkness
Jane Eyre
Bronte
In this novel, Grace Poole is blamed for a fire, which the madwoman (*) Bertha Mason started, resulting in the destruction of Thornfield Hall
Jane Eyre
A man in this novel goes blind following a fire caused by his insane first wife when she was locked in the attic.
Jane Eyre
The title character declares “Reader, I (*) married him” at the beginning of the final chapter of this novel
Jane Eyre
Helen Burns dies of tuberculosis at Lowood in this novel
Jane Eyre
The red room is a location in this novel, during which an apothecary suggests that the protagonist be sent to a school run by Mr. (*) Brocklehurst
Jane Eyre
The title character of this novel is raised by her abusive aunt and uncle at Gateshead Hall, and she attends school at Lowood Institution.
Jane Eyre
A man in this novel is shocked by the arrival of a visitor from Jamaica after he dresses as a woman to tell the fortunes of Blanche Ingram and his future wife.
Jane Eyre
This character is given a book called the “Child’s Guide” and is told to read the section that discusses a naughty liar named Martha.
Jane Eyre
this Metaphysical poet of “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” who included “Death, be not proud” in his Holy Sonnets.
Donne
A man asks for this character’s paintings before heavily critiquing three of them and abruptly telling her that it is time for bed
Jane Eyre
This poet of “To His Mistress Going to Bed” describes the innocent “trepidation of the spheres” in a poem that ends, “Thy firmness makes my circle just.”
Donne
the Canonization, the Flea, For whome the bell tolls
Donne
This man sought to “justify the ways of God to man” in a Biblically-inspired epic poem partially set in the city of (*) Pandemonium which describes the story of Adam and Eve and the fall of Lucifer
Milton
This author of “The Canonization” and “The (*) Flea” addressed one poem to someone whose “firmness makes my circle just,” and in another poem wrote about a being that is “slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men.”
Donne
This poet wrote that “every man” is “a piece of the continent” and “no man is an (*) island” in one of his “meditations.”
Donne
This author described a creature that “sucked me first, and now sucks thee.”
Donne
A poem by this author describes women as “mystic books, which only we” “must see reveal’d.”
Donne
what metaphysical poet who wrote “For Whom the Bell Tolls?”
Donne
In one poem by this author, iambic pentameter is chopped on the word “Dull” in a description of “sublunary lovers’ love” who “cannot admit Absence.”
Donne
In one poem this author claimed “Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men…though she and I do love.” In another poem by this author, some sad friends say “Now his breath goes,” and some say, “No.” as “Virtuous men pass mildly away.”
Donne
In one poem by this author, iambic pentameter is chopped on the word “Dull” in a description of “sublunary lovers’ love” who “cannot admit Absence.” A woman also “purples her name in the blood of the innocence”
Donne
This author asked “Who would not sing for” a drowned shepherd in a pastoral elegy dedicated to Edward King. This author of (*) “Il Penseroso” and “Lycidas” wrote an epic poem that seeks to “justify the ways of God to men.”
Milton
Paradise Lost, II Penseroso, Lycidas,
Milton
In that epic by this author, a character claims “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven” after rebelling against God.
Milton
One poem by this author urges shepherds to “weep no more” for the drowning of the title character
Milton
In one poem by this author, he denounces “vain, deluding joys” in favor of the “saintly visage” of Melancholy, while in a companion poem he resolves to live with Mirth.
Milton
This man wrote an elegy for his friend Edward King that includes the line “Look homeward, Angel” and ends “Tomorrow to fresh woods, and Pastures new.” In addition to “Lycidas,” this man wrote “They also serve who only stand and wait” in a (*) sonnet that begins “When I consider how my light is spent;” that sonnet is sometimes titled “On His Blindness.”
Milton
This author asks “Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?” in a poem that ends “They also serve who only stand and wait.”
Milton
Ezra Pound criticized this author for using Latin syntax in the phrase “Him who disobeys, me disobeys.” A poem by this author decries “vain deluding joys” that “dwell in some idle brain” before praising “divinest Melancholy.”
Milton
A work by this author begins with a Euripides quote on the meaning of “True Liberty.” That poem describes the uses and harms of the Licensing Order of 1643, and notes that “he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.”
Milton
Little Women
Alcott
this novel by Louisa May Alcott about Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March.
Little Women
Another girl in this novel marries Laurie Laurence after her sister rejects him to marry Professor Bhaer
Little Women
In this novel, Aunt Carrol and Florence invite a young artist to Europe, where she falls in love with her childhood friend, (*) “Laurie” Laurence. Professor Bhaer [“bear”] marries the aspiring writer, Jo, after her sister dies of scarlet fever in this novel about Marmie’s children.
Little Women
A visit to the Hummel family causes a girl in this novel to say that her sewing needle is “heavy” as she dies of (*) scarlet fever
Little Women
A character in this novel learns German from Professor Bhaer (BAY-er), who criticizes her for writing romance stories for newspapers.
Little Women
In this novel, Tina, Minnie, and Kitty play with a language teacher who lives in Miss Kirke’s boarding house with an aspiring writer.
Little Women
At the beginning of this novel, the protagonists’ mother convinces them to give their Christmas breakfast to a poor family.
Little Women
The family patriarch of this novel’s central family serves as a chaplain in the American Civil War and does not return home for Christmas
Little Women
A character in this novel is forced to throw her collection of limes out of a window, and another character in this novel writes stories for a magazine called the Weekly Volcano.
Little Women
Characters in this novel form a Charles Dickens-inspired Pickwick Club and re-enact John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
Little Women
In one stanza of this poem, the speaker discusses the misery of the world, stating that it is a place “where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies.”
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to a Nightingale
Keats
The speaker of this poem realizes that “Now more than ever seems it rich to die” because he called the subject “soft names in many a mused rhyme.”
Ode to a Nightingale
its subject was “not born for death” and is called “Immortal”
Ode to a Nightingale
an “immortal Bird” is the subject of this poem
Ode to a Nightingale
This poem is addressed to a (*) “Dryad of the trees,” and it begins with the speaker saying, “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains by sense.”
Ode to a Nightingale
After the title creature of this poem leaves, the speaker asks, “Was it a vision, or a waking dream?… Do I wake or sleep?”
Ode to a Nightingale
The speaker of this poem imagines a voice heard “in ancient days by emperor and clown” and Ruth, making her stand “in tears among the alien corn.”
Ode to a Nightingale
In another stanza, the speaker “cannot see what flowers are at my feet” or the “soft incense” that “hangs upon the boughs.”
Ode to a Nightingale
truth is beauty and beauty truth
Ode to a Nightingale
The speaker of this poem is “half in love with easeful death” and will be charioted “on the viewless wings of (*) Poesy.”
Ode to a Nightingale
about title orphan who want more gruel / “please sir I want some more”
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
Dickens
artful dodger steals hankerchief
Oliver Twist
the artful dodger and the title character pickpocket in group led by Fagin
Oliver Twist
the protagonist stays with Mr. Brownlow
Oliver Twist
Nancy is killed by lover Bill Sikes
Oliver Twist
Mr. Sowerberry and Noah Claypole fight the protagonist
Oliver Twist
Mr. Bumble and Edward Leeford agree to throw a locket and a ring in a river
Oliver Twist
Charollete Lucas marries Mr. Collins, the heir of the Longbourn estate
Pride and Prejudice
the servant Charoletter is in love wiht a character who adopts the alias ‘Morris Bolter”
Oliver Twist
three of the Bennet sisters marry
Pride and Prejudice
Bingley proposes to the main family’s eldest sister, Jane
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
Austen
a character i sent to Austrailia after being caught with a silver snuff-box
Oliver Twist
The end of this novel focuses on the lives of Rose Maylie and her nephew, who gives part of his inheritance to his brother, Mr Monks, after he is adopted by Mr Brownlow
Oliver Twist
focuses primarily on Elizabeth Bennett’s decision to marry Mr. Darcy
Pride and Prejudice
George Wickham prevents a scandal by convincing him to marry Lydia
Pride and Prejudice
this novel begins noting that “a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”
Pride and Prejudice
a reverend in this novel offers a man an olive branch and accepts the patronage of Catherine de Bourgh
Pride and Prejudice
A clergyman in this novel reads a collection of Fordyce’s sermons to a family
Pride and Prejudice
In this novel, the weak singing of a sister at the Netherfield ball causes the protagonist embarrassment
Pride and Prejudice
A character in this novel laments, “ Till this moment, I never knew myself” after rejecting a marriage proposal
Pride and Prejudice
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
about the Cocney flower girl eliza Doolittle
Pygmalion
This play sees Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering making a bet to pass a Cockney girl off as a duchess
Pygmalion
The protagonist of this play throws slippers at a character who was mistaken for a (*) Covent Garden policeman at the beginning of this play
Pygmalion
The protagonist of this play marries Freddy Eynsford-Hill and is the subject of a bet between Colonel Pickering and Professor Higgins
Pygmalion
A character in this play pays to work in a flower shop on (*) Wimpole Street
Pygmalion
The author of this play added the section “What Happened Afterward” to it to oppose Herbert Tree’s alternate ending. A character in this play stuffs chocolates into his mouth to show they aren’t poisoned
Pygmalion
A character in this play is described as the “most original moralist in England” by a millionaire
Pygmalion
The main character of this play is dressed in a blue kimono by the housekeeper Mrs. Pearce
Pygmalion
In this play, one character goes out in the rain to fetch a cab for his mother and sister, but it is stolen by the lead actress when they disappear. That character sticks her tongue out at her father when he appears to ask for money, and responds “not bloody likely!” to a question about walking.
Pygmalion
The author of this play rejected a happier ending devised by Sir Herbert Tree, saying Tree “ought to be shot” for it
Pygmalion
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Eolian Harp, Kubla Khan, etc
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
the author who penned the lines, “Water, water everywhere!” in his famous poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”
Coleridge
The completion of this author’s fifty-four line poem was interrupted by a person from Porlock and discusses Xanadu.
Coleridge
In one poem, this author described “A light in sound, a sound-like power in light.” That poem asked to “Tell us of silence” and was addressed to “My pensive Sara!” Another poem by this author describes “four times fifty living men” who “dropped down one by one” after a (*) dice game between Death and Life-in-Death.
Coleridge
The narrator of one of this author’s poems notes his “flashing eyes” and “floating hair” after he “drunk the milk of paradise.”
Coleridge
This poet described “silent icicles” and a “quiet moon” while the title phenomenon “performs its secret ministry” in “Frost at Midnight.”
Coleridge
This writer described a man “winning thy way / With sad yet patient soul, through evil and pain / And strange calamity!” in “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison.”
Coleridge
This poet described Charles Lamb’s joy at leaving the city while he despairs at being left in nature in “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison.”
Coleridge
The speaker of one of this author’s poems rambles about an “intellectual breeze” to his “pensive Sara.” The speaker of another of his poems tells of the “symphony and song” of an “Abyssinian maid”, who is “singing of Mount Abora” as the “damsel with a dulcimer”
Coleridge
One of this author’s works tells his child that is “cradled by my side” that he “shalt wander like a breeze” and that “all seasons shall be sweet to thee.” Another of his works exclaims “Joy, Lady! is the spirit and the power” after he is unable to “see, not feel how beautiful they are.”
Coleridge
One of this man’s works begins by exulting, “How exquisite the scents / Snatch’d from yon bean-field!” This author wrote the Conversation poems, as well as a poem in which the narrator describes how “the night is chilly, but not dark” as the title character enters the woods to pray.
Coleridge
Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne
Hester Prynne’s adultery
Scarlet Letter
Roger chillingsworth attempts to get Arthur dimmesdale to admit to illegitimately fathering Pearl
Scarlet Letter
this object is first encountered in a custom-house
Scarlet Letter
traced out by falling meteor as a trio of characters holds hands
Scarlet Letter
object rumored to glow in the night
Scarlet Letter
repels sunshine, said by girl who refueses to cross a brook unless the object is revealed
Scarlet Letter
Governor Winthrops death is linked to sighting of meteor
Scarlet Letter
protag is questioned in prison by John Wilson
Scarlet Letter
narrator remarks on the “sad gray, brown, or black” clothes of people in the marketplace in a chapter describing a public holiday
Scarlet Letter
Tale of Genji
Lady Murasaki
In this novel, the husband of Lady Aoi engages in many love affairs with women suhc as Lady Fujitsubo
Tale of Genji
the blank chapter, “Vanished into the clouds,” in this book implies the protagonists death
Tale of Genji
Kaoru and Nioru’s rivalry is depicted in the (*) Uji chapters of this novel
Tale of Genji
this novel’s Uji chapters detail events after the death of the protagonist
Lady Murasaki
After arguing with Lady Rokujo, the daughter of the Minister of the Left suffers a seizure in this novel.
Tale of Genji
Yugiri is born to the Minister of the Left’s daughter in this novel.
Tale of Genji
In this novel, the Akashi Lady’s daughter gives birth to Niou [nee-oh], who romantically competes with Kaoru [kah-oh-roo], the legal son of this novel’s title character.
Tale of Genji
One character in this work never shows her face in public because of her large nose, but the protagonist is still attracted by her zither playing.
Tale of Genji
The protagonist of this work begins a relationship with the Lady of the Orange Blossoms. During a festival, the title character of this work gives a perfect performance of a dance called the “Waves of the (*) Blue Sea.”
Tale of Genji
In this novel’s first chapter, a woman gives birth in “The Paulownia Court” to a character who later marries a girl named after the wisteria flower. After a character in this novel reads a poem that ends, “May lavender, the hue of the troth, be as fast,” another character marries the daughter of the Minister of the Left.
Tale of Genji
Tess of the D’URbervilles
Hardy
novel about a common girl from a royal lineage
Tess of the D’URbervilles
Angel Clare works on a dairy farm with the title character in this novel
Tess of the D’URbervilles
The title character of this novel names her baby Sorrow, and christens him herself before killing his father Alec in the final section
Tess of the D’URbervilles
This novel’s protagonist is sent to Winchester prison to be executed for murdering Alec
Tess of the D’URbervilles
The title character gives birth to (*) Sorrow and works at Talbothay’s dairy, where she meets a man who later abandons her for a new life in Brazil
Tess of the D’URbervilles
A sleepwalker in this novel carries his wife across a river before laying her in a coffin, and later flees with the milkmaid Izz to (*) Brazil
Tess of the D’URbervilles
One character in this novel stops carrying a basket for the protagonist to paint the words “Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not” on a fence
Tess of the D’URbervilles
A character in this novel travels to a mansion near Trantridge in order to “claim kin” with a rich widow and later kills a flock of wounded pheasants out of mercy
Tess of the D’URbervilles
One character in this work rejects Mercy Chant since she lacks farming skills despite the suggestions of his brothers Felix and Cuthbert
Tess of the D’URbervilles
The protagonist of this work moves to Sandbourne after sending angry letters to her lover before urging him to marry her sister, Liza-Lu
Tess of the D’URbervilles
The sun also rises
hemingway
the first novel by Hemingway
The sun also rises
novel narrated by Jake Barnes
The sun also rises
near the end of the novel, Pedro Romero gets beat up by Robert Cohn
The sun also rises
Characters in this novel travel to Pamplona to see the runnings of the bulls
The sun also rises
Montoya introduces the narrator and his friends to a 19 year old that Mike Campbell’s fiance later runs off with
The sun also rises
a character goes on a five day fishing trip with the protagonist where they meet and Englishman named Harris
The sun also rises
One character in this novel alleges a love affair between Jefferson Davis and Ulysses S. Grant and claims that “Lincoln just freed the slaves on a bet”
The sun also rises
the protagonist has a drink with the prostitute Georgiana but refuses to kiss her due to “sickness”
The sun also rises
Watership down
Adams
adventure novel about rabbits
Watership down
This novel begins with (*) Fiver receiving a vision of his home being destroyed, causing him and his friends to search for a new warren
Watership down
featuring Silver, Bigwig, and Hazel
Watership down
This book’s protagonists escape to the eponymous Hampshire location after escaping their Sandleford home’s destruction due to Fiver’s premonition
Watership down
Refugees from a tyrannical regime in this work include Thethuthinnang, Blackavar, and Hyzenthlay, all of whom escape Efrafa and the rule of General Woundwort.
Watership down
Mythical figures in this work include King Darzin, the sun god Lord Frith, and the trickster hero known as ‘The Prince with a Thousand Enemies’, or (*) El-ahrairah.
Watership down
One settlement in this work includes such inhabitants as Nildro-hain and Silverweed, who develop song, art, and poetry, and forbids asking where inhabitants are, due to a system known as ‘the shining wire’
Watership down
The Second Coming, Easter 1916, Sailing to Byzantium, etc
W.B. Yeats
Irish poet of “Easter, 1916” and “Sailing to Byzantium.”
W.B. Yeats
Irish poet of “The Second Coming.”
W.B. Yeats
the speaker of that poem by this author claims “things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” and describes a creature that “slouches towards Bethlehem.”
W.B. Yeats
The speaker of one poem by this author is troubled by “a (*) vast image out of Spiritus Mundi.”
W.B. Yeats
This poet “disappeared in the dead of winter” according to a poem memorializing him that states “Poetry makes nothing happen.”
W.B. Yeats
This poet, who repeatedly states “A (*) terrible beauty is born” in that poem, wrote“an aged man is but a paltry thing” in another poem that begins “That is no country for old men.”
W.B. Yeats
In one poem, this poet claims “the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
W.B. Yeats
In one poem, this author cautions “tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” The speaker asks “how can we know the dancer from the dance?” in this author’s “Among School Children.”
W.B. Yeats
This author described a location where “peace comes dropping slow” in a poem that mentions “nine bean rows” in a place where “midnight’s all a glimmer” and the speaker “will arise and go now.” This author invoked a childhood memory of a vacation spot in County Sligo in “The (*) Lake Isle of Innisfree.”
W.B. Yeats
One work by this author details the encounter between the title Spartan queen and Zeus in the form of a bird.
W.B. Yeats
In one work by this man, Felipe Montero stumbles upon the title character expressionlessly beheading a goat in the kitchen
Fuentes
At the beginning of this novel, the narrator describes how her ancestor Simon established her hometown, and states that she will explain why her brother’s arm is crooked.
to kill a mockingbird
A 25-cent debt is repaid in firewood and vegetables, and that debtor’s son slathers his food in molasses. In another scene, Sheriff Heck Tate defers the responsibility of shooting a (*) rabid dog
to kill a mockingbird
In one of this author’s unfinished works, Ushant, the Duke of Tintagel, marries Nan St. George. In another of her novels, the protagonist ultimately divorces Raymond De Chelles to re-marry Elmer Moffatt.
Wharton
author of Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence
Wharton
In one novel, this author fictionalized his exposure to Buddhism via Gary Snyder. This author of Big Sur used his friend William Burroughs as the model for Old Bull Lee in a novel in which Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise travel the United States
Kerouac
In a novel by this author, the protagonist travels in a Jeep nicknamed “Willie” to Los Gatos to meet “the great Cody,” where he falls in love with Billie. Lorenzo Monsanto tells Jack Duluoz about his cat’s death in that novel by this author. In one novel, this author fictionalized his exposure to Buddhism via Gary Snyder
Kerouac
The speaker of this poem exhorts to “Rather at once our time devour.” The speaker of this poem thinks his “vegetable love should grow/ Vaster than empires and more slow”, while its addressee “Shouldst rubies find” walking by the Ganges. The speaker of this poem asks its addressee to “refuse/ Till the (*) conversion of the Jews.
To His Coy Mistress
This author wrote of a murderous chess-playing automaton in one short story, and about Carter Druse, who discovers that an enemy spy he must kill is his father, in another. In addition to “Moxon’s Master” and “A Horseman in the Sky”, this author of “The Damned Thing” wrote about a man unharmed by (*) rifle shot, who imagines getting home
Bierce
Dick Dewy and Francis Day fall in love in this author’s novel Under the Greenwood Tree. The reappearance of the furmity-woman triggers the final downfall of the protagonist of one of this author’s novels.
Hardy
Angel Clare meets the protagonist at a May Dance in a novel by this author, who opened another book with Michael Henchard selling his (*) wife and daughter for five guineas.
Hardy
Red Badge of Courage
Crane
Jim Conklin dies in what novel about Henry Fleming during the Civil War
Red Badge of Courage
A character in this novel who sees the “red, eye-like glow” of a campfire across the river discovers ants covering a corpse in a chapel-like forest
Red badge of courage
character in this novel justifies his decisions by throwing a pine cone at a squirrel
red badge of courage
The protagonist of this novel, who later bears the flag of a bunch of “mule drivers” and“mud diggers,” is hit in the head with the butt of a (*) rifle
red badge of courage
In this novel, Bill Smithers complains about his hospital being bombed after his hand is crushed by one of his comrades.
red badge of courage
In this novel, the protagonist and Wilson “deserve t’ be major-generals” after carrying the (*) Union flag in a charge.
red badge of courage
Near the beginning of this novel, the protagonist feels a sensation that “his eyeballs were about to crack like hot stones.”
red badge of courage
In one scene of this novel, the protagonist encounters a man with a shoeful of blood, and hears another man singing about “five an’ twenty dead men/Baked in a pie.”
red badge of courage
In a flashback in this work, the protagonist’s mother advises him to never do anything he would feel ashamed to tell her.
red badge of courage
In one story by this author, Colonel Barclay dies after confronting a crippled man who always walks around with his mongoose Teddy
Doyle
In another story by this author, one character receives a well-paying job copying the Encyclopædia Britannica after responding to a newspaper ad searching for (*) red-haired men
Doyle
In a story by this author, Elias Openshaw is found dead in a garden pool shortly after receiving a letter inscribed with the letters “KKK” and containing “The Five Orange Pips.”
Doyle
In another story by this man, Nemor is destroyed by the title “Disintegration Machine” after being tricked by Professor (*) Challenger.
Doyle
Sherlock holmes
Doyle
In one story centering on this character, an interpreter named Mr. Melas is kidnapped and brought before a man whose face is covered in plaster.
Sherlock holmes
“The Country of the Saints,” the second part of a story about this character, opens with a group of Mormons who rescue a young girl named Lucy.
Sherlock holmes
This character finds the black pearl of the Borgias inside a plaster bust of Napoleon.
Sherlock holmes
In one story, this character saves Helen Stoner from her stepfather’s “Speckled Band.”
Sherlock holmes
This character only refers to Irene Adler as “the woman” after she tricks him in “A Scandal in Bohemia.”
Sherlock holmes
In one story including this character, Dr. Roylott attempted to kill Roylott’s stepdaughter, Helen, by using a swamp adder, the title “speckled band.”
Sherlock holmes
In one appearance by this character, he calls attention to the “curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” In another of his appearances, he investigates a very large jellyfish while without his usual companion
Sherlock Holmes
This character travels through Chicago, Buffalo, and Ireland in pursuit of a German spy, Von Bork. In another work, this man learns the story of agent Birdy Edwards and how he brought the Vermissa Valley gang to justice.
Sherlock Holmes
In one story, this character burns papers Charles Augustus Milverton said would ruin Eva Blackwell’s engagement
Sherlock Holmes
This character is unable to save Paul Kratides [KRA-TI-DEES] from a charcoal-filled room and uses a wax bust of himself to trap the airgun-shooting Sebastian Moran.
Sherlock Holmes
This man once noted that there were precisely seventeen steps leading up to his apartment.
Sherlock Holmes
In a novel by this author, two lovers first meet as a railway worker is killed by a train, and one of them commits suicide when she suspects the other, Count Vronsky (VRON-skee), of having an affair.
Tolstoy
This author wrote about the effects William Blake’s poetry had on his writing in the semi-autobiographical work Rouse up O Young Men of the New Age.
Oe
Servants in this novel include Grimaud, who speaks only in hand-signals; Kitty, who falls in love with the protagonist; and Planchet
3 muskets
A character in this novel secretly has a fleur-de-lis tattooed on her left shoulder
3 muskets
In this work, a scandal nearly breaks out over Anne of Austria’s diamonds, which she gives to the Duke of Buckingham
3 muskets
The protagonist of this work used to frequent the Steel Helmet bar. While following a funeral procession, that protagonist of this novel ponders his relationship with Erica and meets a man who instructs him to go to the Black Eagle
Steppenwolf
Later this novel’s protagonist watches a film about Moses before attending a Masked Ball in the Globe Room, where he falls in love with a woman dressed like his friend Herman.
Steppenwolf
In a play by this man, a vision inspires an elderly hermit named Makak to journey to Africa. This author notes that “the violence of beast on beast is read as natural law” in a work that declares “the gorilla wrestled with the Superman”
Walcott
The protagonist of a novel by this man runs the Wellspring Methodist Church and has an affair with his secretary, Hettie Bowler.
Sinclair Lewis
The title character of a novel by this author is an engineer who sells the Revelation Motor Company.
Sinclair Lewis
American author of Babbitt, who created Carol Kennicott in Main Street.
Sinclair Lewis
Vladimir Nabokov regarded the plot of this novel as unimportant, as he rejected the notion that this novel was a reformist or satirical work.
Dead Souls
One character in this novel relates how the protagonist replaced two million fake rubles with two million real rubles to avoid an arrest.
Dead souls
The narrator of this novel visits The Swastika Holding Company after a funeral.
Great Gatsby
A character in this novel claims “it takes two to make an accident” after being criticized for her driving.
Great Gatsby
A gambler in this novel, who wears cufflinks made of human molars, fixed the 1919 World Series.
Great Gatsby
Meyer Wolfsheim, is a friend of the title character
Great Gatsby
In one poem, this author wrote about a watercarrier who saves the narrator’s life, only to be shot himself, concluding “You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!”
Kipling
Another of his poems urges the reader to “send forth the best ye breed” and “have done with childish days. (White mans burden)
Kipling
A poet with this last name called for people to “rise, like lions after slumber / In unvanquishable number” in a poem responding to the Peterloo massacre, The Masque of Anarchy
shelley
Another (#) author with this last name created a character whom causes Justine Moritz’s hanging by killing William, and later strangles (*) Henry Clerval
Shelley
A character in this play describes a woman whose “chariot is an empty hazelnut” and who serves as “the fairies’ midwife.”
Romeo and Juliet
The speaker of this poem claims that “the error bred in the bone” is craving “to be loved alone”, and has “a voice to undo the folded lie”
Sep 1 1939, by Auden
Henry Clinton, character read “The Black Plague, Alexander Hancock, Bob Ewell, Dill Harris
Lee
The final part of this poem extols the “crazy shepherds of rebellion” and “vast lamb of the middle class” before mentioning a character who, in a dream, walks “dripping from a sea-journey.”
Howl
This poet wrote, “Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal!” in a poem imagining “footprints on the sands of time.”
Longfellow
This author stole the meter from the Kalevala for an epic poem whose hero is born when his mother is impregnated by the wind.
Longfellow
He wrote, “Hardly a man is now alive/Who remembers that famous day and year”, referring to the (*) “eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five.”
Longfellow
In one work, this author described Sybil Carpenter’s encounter with the veteran Seymour.
Sallinger
“A Perfect Day for Bananafish” was the first to feature members of this author’s Glass family, which includes the title characters of one of his novels, Franny and Zooey.
Sallinger
This author wrote of the history teacher (*) Mr. Spencer, the unsanitary Ackley and two nuns who know a surprisingly large amount about Romeo and Juliet in one novel.
Sallinger
In response to another character mentioning respect after saying “I never boast, and I never tell lies”, this character says “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
Anna Karenina
This character is given a bowl of sweetened milk and pieces of bread, but dislikes the taste
Samsa
This character attempts to hide a picture of a lady dressed in fur while his furniture is being taken
Samsa
this protagonist of Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis.”
Samsa
In a novel by this author, the title couple owns the Muggle-Wumps and catch the “Dreaded Shrinks” after being glued to the floor of their house
Dahl
This author of The Twits wrote about a nephew of Spiker and Sponge who makes friends with bugs like Miss (*) Spider in James and the Giant Peach
dahl
In this novel, David Gamut attempts to teach some beavers to sing and, while traveling from Fort Edward to Fort William Henry, Cora and Alice Munro are kidnapped by Magua.
last of the mohicans
This novel uses the Tramecksan and Slamecksan parties to mock the Tories and Whigs,
gullivers travels
This novel’s protagonist visits (*) Laputa, Luggnag, and Japan
gullivers travels
gullivers travels is by
swift
This author wrote about Barry Fairbrother suffering from an aneurysm in the novel The Casual Vacancy,
rowling
The Cuckoo’s Calling in the Cormoran Strike series, written under the pen name Robert (*) Galbraith
rowling
This author’s short story “Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump” appears in The Tales of Beedle the Bard
rowling
Along with the daughter of King Pastoria, this character is kidnapped by Queen Coo-ee-oh.
dorothy Gale
This friend of Princess Ozma travels with Nick Chopper,
Dorothy Gale
A resident of this town vanishes after stopping near Wiley’s Swamp on his way home from a nearby farm.
sleepy hollow
This town, also called Tarry Town, is the home of a man who claims he was chased by the Galloping (#) Hessian at a party hosted by Baltus (*) Van Tassel
sleepy hollow
This work begins with the protagonist lying in bed after missing his train to work.
Metamorphosis
A violin performance by Grete [GREtuh] in this novella is interrupted when three tenants see its protagonist.
Metamorphosis
Its protagonist hides under a sofa when others enter his room to avoid being seen and loses a desire for milk
Metamorphosis
a character is paralyzed after an (*) apple is lodged in his back and his death is welcomed by his family since he had become “thin and flat.”
Metamorphosis
In a play about this legendary figure, he asks “was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships?” when confronted with the spirit of Helen of Troy.
Faust
In another play, this (#) man has an affair with Gretchen after a mysterious dog follows him home
Faust
This man ignores the words (*) “Homo, fuge!” on his arm, and instead signs a contract that gives him the ability to use magic
Faust
In one novel by this author, the People of the Mist kidnap the flute-playing Alex and his partner, Nadia.
Allende
The doctor Tao begins a relationship with Eliza Sommers, who goes to see if the dead bandit Joaquin Murieta was her former lost lover in this author’s novel Daughter of Fortune.
Allende
Pedro Tercero has three fingers cut off by the owner of the plantation Las Tres Marias, Esteban, who the clairvoyant Clara vows to never speak to again after he knocks out two of her teeth in another of her novels
Allende
the house of spirits, city of beasts
Allende
A character in this story rides past a tree haunted by Major Andre on his horse Gunpowder after having his marriage proposal rejected at a harvest party.
legend of sleepy hollow
Katrina van Tassel, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, ends up marrying Brom (*) Bones over a local school teacher in this story
legend of sleepy hollow
This author wrote a work in which Ainsley attempts to seduce Len so that she may bear a child and Marian tests Duncan by offering him a cake in the shape of a woman
Atwood
Handmaids tail
Atwood
In another work by this author of The Edible Woman, a novel attributed to Laura is revealed to have been based on Alex Thomas’ affair with Iris Chase
Atwood
Thirty cassette tapes found in Bangor, Maine appear in this novel’s “Historical Notes’’ section and are discussed by Professor Pieixoto (pee-ek-SOH-toh)
Handmaids tail
In addition to Happy Endings, this author wrote a novel that follows Snowman within a post-apocalyptic world in Oryx and Crake.
Atwood
In this novel, when one character says “Blessed be the fruit”, the reply is supposed to be “May the Lord open.”
Handmaid’s tail
A short story collection by Ray Bradbury takes its name from a poem by this man
Whitman
This poet writes about how his soul is “detached, in measureless oceans of space” in one poem and describes a speaker asking “If the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul?”
Whitman
“A Noiseless Patient Spider”
whitman
A poem by this author begins by stating that he is a “lonesome man in Kansas.”
Ginsberg
In addition to the“Wichita Vortex Sutra,” this author asked “Who killed the pork chops?”
Ginsberg
describing a poet who is“poking among the meats” as a “childless, lonely old grubber.”
Ginsberg
“angel-headed hipsters” and Carl Solomon, who lives in a hospital called (*) Rockland
Ginsberg
In one poem, this author asks “what America did you have when… you stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of Lethe?”
Ginsberg
“I know that I shall meet my fate in the clouds above”
Yeats, Irish
the narrator uses “the handkerchief of the Lord” and “the beautiful uncut hair of graves” to describe a type of plant
whitman
One section of this poem describes “twenty-eight young men” bathing in the water who “do not think whom they souse with spray.”
Song of Myself
In one story by this author, a maid sings the same verse of an aria twice after playing a game involving the title substance, “Clay.”
Joyce
The main character of another of his stories wonders whether he should quote Robert Browning and hears Mr. D’Arcy sing “The Lass of Aughrim.”
Joyce
story by him concerns (*) Mrs. Conroy’s love for the deceased Michael Furey
Joyce
In this work, a woman nicknamed “Alaiyo” threatens her nephew with a spray gun.
Raisin in the Sun
A woman’s boyfriend calls her choice to straighten her hair “mutilation” and invites her to Nigeria near the end of this play.
Raisin in the Sun
Bobo tells the central family that Willy Harris has run off with the (*) money for a liquor store
Raisin in the Sun
family decides to move to Clybourne Park
Raisin in the Sun
Beneatha studies medicine in this play where Walter refuses to concede to pressure from Karl Lindner
Raisin in the Sun
Raisnin in the sun
Hansberry
Lord Augustus becomes enamored with the mysterious mother of the title character: play by who?
Wilde
title character runs away to Lord Darlington’s house after suspecting that her husband is having an affair with Mrs. Erlynne.: play by who?
Wilde
In another of this author’s plays, two bunburying characters charm (*) Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew by pretending to have the title name.
Wilde
two bunburying characters charm (*) Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew by pretending to have the title name
Importance of being earnest
The preface to this novel states “it is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors,” and ends by declaring that “all art is quite useless.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The protagonist of this novel is stalked by a sailor, who is accidentally shot during a hunting party
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The sister of that sailor calls the protagonist of this novel “Prince Charming” and later (*) kills herself after the protagonist breaks up with her because of a poor performance as Juliet
The Picture of Dorian Gray
“all art is quite useless” ends this novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
In one story by this writer, the title town drops a word from their motto about temptation after a debacle in which 19 couples attempt to dishonestly acquire a sack of gold.
Twain
In a different work by this author, a stranger at the dilapidated Angel’s Camp relates a story about a bulldog named Andrew Jackson, as well as a different creature named (*) Dan’l Webster
Twain
This author wrote about an “aged stranger”
Twain
This author wrote about an “aged stranger” that delivered a message about the suffering of a nation’s enemies in his short story “The War Prayer.”
Twain
The title character is elected mayor of Dawson’s Landing after proving that Tom and Chambers were switched at birth in this man’s Pudd’nhead (*) Wilson
Twain
This author’s novel about Laura Hawkins coined the term “the Gilded Age.”
Twain
This author wrote about a lawyer who uses fingerprints to prove that Tom Driscoll had been switched at birth with Valet de Chambers
Twain
This author of Pudd’nhead Wilson
Twain
To obtain a weapon, one character in this novel dives beneath the river of an iron bridge near the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit.
Journey to the west
“Fiery eyes” are obtained by a character in this novel after being imprisoned in a cauldron for 49 days.
Journey to the west
character is subsequently trapped under a (*) mountain for five hundred years before joining Sandy and Pigsy in accompanying Tang Sanzang to atone for their (#) past misdeeds.
Journey to the west
This novel questions whether God had intestines after discussing how Yakov Stalin threw himself against an electric fence.
Unbearable Lightness of Being
this man employs Calpurnia to take care of his children
Atticus Finch
One of this author’s short stories begins by describing a “certain official” who “serves (#) in a certain department,” and a
Gogol
another work by this author contrasts the lives of Lieutenant Pirogov and Piskaryov, who both travel along the title street
Gogol
In another of his works, Poprischin believes himself heir to the throne of Spain
Gogol
author of (*) “Diary of a Madman” and “Nevsky Prospekt”
Gogol
One of this author’s poems laments that “the sky is a net crammed with shadowy fish” and begins with the words “every day you play with the light of the universe.
Neruda
Another work by this author asks to let “bodies cling like magnets to my body” and asks the subject to “rise up to be born with me, brother.”
Neruda
This author of odes to (*) onions lamented “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Neruda
In this novel, one character is slapped with a ruler after explaining how a family pays debts with chestnuts;
To Kill a Mockingbird
Walter shows up to school without a lunch
To Kill a Mockingbird
A trial in this novel ends with a guilty verdict despite the argument that a series of bruises were likely caused by a (*) left-handed man
To Kill a Mockingbird
in a story by this author, an outlaw decides not to fight the marshal of the title town after he finds out that the marshal is married
Crane
In another story by this author, Johnnie is accused of cheating at cards by the Swede
Crane
The Captain, the Cook, the Correspondent, and the Oiler are all stranded at sea in a story by this author
Crane
The protagonist of this novel meets the ghost of Alexander the Great and debates philosophy with Aristotle and Descartes after facing a pirate attack
Gulliver’s Travels
Scientists in this novel attempt to turn ice into gunpowder in the Grand (#) Academy, where they also attempt to extract sunlight from cucumbers on the floating island of (*) Laputa
Gulliver’s Travels
A character in this work was captured by Native Americans and learned many homeopathic remedies in his time in captivity
Scarlett Letter
person notes that while the main character does not lie with buried sin but, “hath none of that mystery of hidden sinfulness which you deem so grievous to be borne.”
Scarlett Letter
This character says, “I’m quite illiterate. But I read a lot.”
Holden Caulfield
He reflects that you can’t erase even half the four-letter words in the world, after reminiscing that the best part of a museum is that nobody in it moves.
Holden Caulfield
In this work, one criminal being persecuted at the Wall wears a bag with blood seeping through that resembles a red smile
Handmaids tale
Two characters in this novel learn that Janine’s child was a “shredder” while attending a “Prayvaganza.”
Handmaids tale
This author wrote a work in which Mr. Medbourne, Mr. Gascoigne, and Colonel Killigrew all desire to turn younger in order to woo Widow Wycherly
Hawthorne
