Literature Flashcards

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What did Luisa May Alcott write?

A

Little Women

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What did Jane Austen write?

A

Pride and Prejuduce

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3
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What did Judy Blume write?

A

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Freckle Juice

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4
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What did Susan Cooper write?

A

The Dark is Rising

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5
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What did Beverly Cleary write?

A

Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins

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6
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What did Samuel Clemmons write?

A

Mark Twain, wrote Tom Sawyer

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What did Jacob and William Grimm write?

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Original Version of Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and other stories

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What did S. E. Hinton write?

A

Outsiders, Tex, Rumble Fish

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9
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Washington Irving wrote what?

A

The Tale of Sleepy Hollow

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10
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Madeleine L’Engle wrote what?

A

A Wrinkle in Time

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11
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Luis Lowry wrote what?

A

Son, The Giver, Number the Stars

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12
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Barbara Park wrote what?

A

Junie B. Jones

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J. K. Rowling wrote what?

A

Harry Potter

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14
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Laura Ingals Wilder wrote what?

A

Little House on The Prairie

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15
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Excalibur was from what book?

A

King Aurthor’s Sword in the Stone

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16
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Quasimodo was from what book?

A

Main charcter in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

17
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Who had Ruby Slippers?

A

Dorothy’s slippers

18
Q

Who is Thunderbolt?

A

Three cyclops- Brontes, Arges, and Steropes- made lightning bolt for Zues after he freed them from Tartarus

19
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Who is Trident?

A

Three cyclops- Brontes, Arges, and Steropes- made trident for Poseiden. Allows him to make earthquakes

20
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Who is Cerberus?

A

Three Headed guard dog of the Underworld

21
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Who wrote Black Beauty?

A

Anna Sewell

22
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Who wrote Highland Mary?

A

Robert Burns

23
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Who wrote Polar Express?

A

Chris Van Allsburg

24
Q

Who wrote The Jungle Book?

A

Rudyard Kipling

25
Q

Who wrote The Road Not Taken?

A

Robert Frost

26
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Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?

A

Nathaniel Hawthorne

27
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Who wrote Treasure Island?

A

Robert Luis Stevenson

28
Q

Who is Aphrodite?

A

Greek Goddess of Love and Beauty, Roman-Venus

29
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Who is Dionysus?

A

Greek God of Wine, Roman-Baccus

30
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Who is Hermes?

A

Greek God of Travellers, Thieves, and Messenger of the Gods, Roman- Mercury

31
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Who is Hera?

A

Greek Goddess of Motherhood, Wife of Zues, Roman-Juno

32
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Who is Jason?

A

Leader of the Argonauts

33
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Who is Minerva?

A

Roman Goddess of Wisdom and Tactical War, Greek- Athena

34
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Who is Pegasus?

A

Winged horse that sprang from the Gorgon Medusa’s blood when she was decapitated by Perseus

35
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Who is Prometheus?

A

A Greek Titan that gave fire to humans even though Zues said no. Punishment was to be chained to a rock and have his liver pecked out by an eagle daily.

36
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What does Audi mean?

A

Sound, Latin Root

37
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What does Graph mean?

A

To write, Greek Root

38
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What does Anti mean?

A

Opposite, against