Literature Flashcards
In 1929, he published the first of his serial adventures of a red-headed adventurer and his dog.
Hergé/Georges Remi
The names of two of three muskateers in Alexandre Dumas’ novel are Athos and Porthos. What is the name of third?
Aramis
Which author wrote works such as ‘The Holy War’ and ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’?
John Bunyan
Which poet wrote ‘Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair’ as well as the epic poem ‘Canto General’?
Paolo Neruda
What pen name did Georges Remi go by?
Herge
What author and illustrator were responsible for the Tale of Peter Rabbit and 22 sequels?
Beatrix Potter
In the Dr. Seuss story, Horton Hears a Who, what kind of animal is Horton?
Elephant
George Orwell coined this term, similar to cognitive dissonance, in Nineteen Eighty-Four. It describes the simultaneous acceptance of two contradictory beliefs.
Doublethink
What is the family name of Dmitri, Ivan, and Alexei, characters from a novel whose title bears the name and their relationship? It was the last novel of Fyodor Dostoevsky before their death in 1881.
Karamazov
The comic French-language names used throughout this novel include that of the kingdom it’s set in, Labassecour, which means “barnyard.” Inspired by the author’s time at a pensionnat in Belgium, this novel follows a woman who falls in love first with Dr. John and then M. Paul, who is also employed at Madame Beck’s boarding school. Name this novel about Lucy Snowe’s time in the title town by Charlotte Brontë.
Villette
Name this author of the Songs of Mihyar the Damascene, a dissident Syrian poet with a Greek mythological pseudonym.
Adonis
Kaa’s Hunting and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi are chapter titles in work by what author?
Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book)
In 1824, which poet died of disease in Missolonghi during the Great War of Independence?
Lord Byron
This author of a novel titled for the “Bell” of his home country wrote a novel set at Summerhouses, the home of the stubborn farmer Bjartur. Name this author of Under the Glacier and Independent People, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955 “for his vivid epic power, which has renewed the great narrative of Iceland”.
Haldor Laxness
In one of this man’s short stories, an officer orders a machine to inscribe the words “be just” into him as a form of elaborate torture, only for it to malfunction and brutally stab him to death.
Franz Kafka
