Literature Flashcards
What did Luisa May Alcott write?
Little Women
What did Jane Austen write?
Pride and Prejuduce
What did Judy Blume write?
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Freckle Juice
What did Susan Cooper write?
The Dark is Rising
What did Beverly Cleary write?
Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins
What did Samuel Clemmons write?
Mark Twain, wrote Tom Sawyer
What did Jacob and William Grimm write?
Original Version of Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and other stories
What did S. E. Hinton write?
Outsiders, Tex, Rumble Fish
Washington Irving wrote what?
The Tale of Sleepy Hollow
Madeleine L’Engle wrote what?
A Wrinkle in Time
Luis Lowry wrote what?
Son, The Giver, Number the Stars
Barbara Park wrote what?
Junie B. Jones
J. K. Rowling wrote what?
Harry Potter
Laura Ingals Wilder wrote what?
Little House on The Prairie
Excalibur was from what book?
King Aurthor’s Sword in the Stone
Quasimodo was from what book?
Main charcter in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Who had Ruby Slippers?
Dorothy’s slippers
Who is Thunderbolt?
Three cyclops- Brontes, Arges, and Steropes- made lightning bolt for Zues after he freed them from Tartarus
Who is Trident?
Three cyclops- Brontes, Arges, and Steropes- made trident for Poseiden. Allows him to make earthquakes
Who is Cerberus?
Three Headed guard dog of the Underworld
Who wrote Black Beauty?
Anna Sewell
Who wrote Highland Mary?
Robert Burns
Who wrote Polar Express?
Chris Van Allsburg
Who wrote The Jungle Book?
Rudyard Kipling
Who wrote The Road Not Taken?
Robert Frost
Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who wrote Treasure Island?
Robert Luis Stevenson
Who is Aphrodite?
Greek Goddess of Love and Beauty, Roman-Venus
Who is Dionysus?
Greek God of Wine, Roman-Baccus
Who is Hermes?
Greek God of Travellers, Thieves, and Messenger of the Gods, Roman- Mercury
Who is Hera?
Greek Goddess of Motherhood, Wife of Zues, Roman-Juno
Who is Jason?
Leader of the Argonauts
Who is Minerva?
Roman Goddess of Wisdom and Tactical War, Greek- Athena
Who is Pegasus?
Winged horse that sprang from the Gorgon Medusa’s blood when she was decapitated by Perseus
Who is Prometheus?
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.
What does Audi mean?
Sound, Latin Root
What does Graph mean?
To write, Greek Root
What does Anti mean?
Opposite, against
