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Literature Flashcards

1
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Beat poet

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Allen Ginsburg

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Female American Poet

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Emily Dickenson

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Bring me your tired, weary / Statue of Liberty poem

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Emma Lazarus

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Welsh poet

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Dylan Thomas

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Nonsense poet

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Edward Lear

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English romantic poet

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Lord Byron

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Male African-American poet

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Langston Hughes

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Female African-American poet

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Maya Angelou

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20th Century American poet, The Waste Land

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TS Elliot

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Hiawatha, Evangeline poet

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Longfellow

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Road not taken poet

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Frost

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12
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19th Century Irish poet

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Yeats

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13
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Song of myself

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Whitman

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19th Century Irish WIT

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Wilde

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15
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Chilean poet

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Neruda

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English epic poem, Paradise lost

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Milton

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17
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Round table wit

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Dorothy Parker

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Russian poet

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Pushkin

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Male and/or English diary

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Samuel Peeps

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Colombian author

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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21
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Odd couple playwright

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Neil Simon

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22
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

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Edward Albee

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23
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A raisin in the sun

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Hansberry

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24
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Fences

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August Wilson

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25
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Waiting for Godot

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Samuel Beckett

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26
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Pygmalion

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George Bernard Shaw

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27
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Candide

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Voltaire

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28
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Czech playwright + prime minister

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Havel

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Russian playwright

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Chekov

30
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Czech playwright + robot

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Capek

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Oedipus Rex

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Sophocles

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Walden, transcendentalist

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Thoreau

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Ancient Mariner, albatross

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Coleridge

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The Bourne Whatever

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Ludlum

35
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“caustic” wit, Algonquin round table

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Dorothy Parker

36
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Czech playwright/author who was also president

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Hovel

37
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Moby Dick author

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Melville

38
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Literary character ____ “the Greek”

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Zorba

39
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Dumas female title character

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Camille

40
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Beloved, song of solomon

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Tony Morrison

41
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Alphabet mysteries “(letter) is for…”

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Sue Grafton

42
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Sonnets from the Portuguese

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

43
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You may kill me with your hatefulness, but still like air I rise

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Angelou

44
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To Kill a Mockingbird sequel

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Go set a watchman

45
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Series of unfortunate events: pen name, actual author

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Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler

46
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Little house

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

47
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Ashley Wilkes & Aunt Pittypat Hamilton are characters from?

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Gone With the Wind

48
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Samuel Beckett play name from Chess

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Endgame

49
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Black female author died in 2019

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Toni Morrison

50
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Ulysses author

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Joyce

51
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This nursery rhyme character with a rhyming name took a terrible tumble

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Humpty Dumpty

52
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“A Doll’s House” playwright

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Pinchon

53
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Poe poem: “This maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me”

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Annabel Lee

54
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Author who created Ramona Quimby

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Cleary

55
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Presidential author of “Christmas in Plains”

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Carter

56
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Ancient poem - fall of Troy

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Illiad

57
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Arthur Miller play set in Salem

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The Crucible

58
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In Long Island’s West Egg, he’s the mysterious wealthy neighbour of Nick Carraway

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Gatsby

59
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“you’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din”

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Kipling

60
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Elizabeth Bennett marries this man in Pride & Prejudice

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Mr. Darcy

61
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Zora Neale Hurston was first black graduate of this college that’s affiliated with Columbia

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Barnard

62
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Beloved bedtime story that mentions various objects

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Goodnight Moon

63
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Eccentric old lady in Dickens’ Great Expectations dies after her wedding gown catches fire

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Miss Havisham

64
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War and Peace came to Broadway as a show titled “Natasha,” him, “and the great comet of 1812”

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Pierre

65
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Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy ended with “The girl who kicked” this

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The hornet’s nest

66
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Illustration medal

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Caldecott

67
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Salman Rushdie banned/controversial book

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Satanic Verses

68
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Kevin Kwan 2013 novel from own privileged upbringing

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Crazy Rich Asians

69
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Huck Finn rafts the river with …

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Jim

70
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My Fair Lady is a musical adaptation of this play

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Pygmalion

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