Literature Flashcards
Beat poet
Allen Ginsburg
Female American Poet
Emily Dickenson
Bring me your tired, weary / Statue of Liberty poem
Emma Lazarus
Welsh poet
Dylan Thomas
Nonsense poet
Edward Lear
English romantic poet
Lord Byron
Male African-American poet
Langston Hughes
Female African-American poet
Maya Angelou
20th Century American poet, The Waste Land
TS Elliot
Hiawatha, Evangeline poet
Longfellow
Road not taken poet
Frost
19th Century Irish poet
Yeats
Song of myself
Whitman
19th Century Irish WIT
Wilde
Chilean poet
Neruda
English epic poem, Paradise lost
Milton
Round table wit
Dorothy Parker
Russian poet
Pushkin
Male and/or English diary
Samuel Peeps
Colombian author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Odd couple playwright
Neil Simon
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Edward Albee
A raisin in the sun
Hansberry
Fences
August Wilson
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Candide
Voltaire
Czech playwright + prime minister
Havel
Russian playwright
Chekov
Czech playwright + robot
Capek
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
Walden, transcendentalist
Thoreau
Ancient Mariner, albatross
Coleridge
The Bourne Whatever
Ludlum
“caustic” wit, Algonquin round table
Dorothy Parker
Czech playwright/author who was also president
Hovel
Moby Dick author
Melville
Literary character ____ “the Greek”
Zorba
Dumas female title character
Camille
Beloved, song of solomon
Tony Morrison
Alphabet mysteries “(letter) is for…”
Sue Grafton
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You may kill me with your hatefulness, but still like air I rise
Angelou
To Kill a Mockingbird sequel
Go set a watchman
Series of unfortunate events: pen name, actual author
Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler
Little house
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Ashley Wilkes & Aunt Pittypat Hamilton are characters from?
Gone With the Wind
Samuel Beckett play name from Chess
Endgame
Black female author died in 2019
Toni Morrison
Ulysses author
Joyce
This nursery rhyme character with a rhyming name took a terrible tumble
Humpty Dumpty
“A Doll’s House” playwright
Pinchon
Poe poem: “This maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me”
Annabel Lee
Author who created Ramona Quimby
Cleary
Presidential author of “Christmas in Plains”
Carter
Ancient poem - fall of Troy
Illiad
Arthur Miller play set in Salem
The Crucible
In Long Island’s West Egg, he’s the mysterious wealthy neighbour of Nick Carraway
Gatsby
“you’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din”
Kipling
Elizabeth Bennett marries this man in Pride & Prejudice
Mr. Darcy
Zora Neale Hurston was first black graduate of this college that’s affiliated with Columbia
Barnard
Beloved bedtime story that mentions various objects
Goodnight Moon
Eccentric old lady in Dickens’ Great Expectations dies after her wedding gown catches fire
Miss Havisham
War and Peace came to Broadway as a show titled “Natasha,” him, “and the great comet of 1812”
Pierre
Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy ended with “The girl who kicked” this
The hornet’s nest
Illustration medal
Caldecott
Salman Rushdie banned/controversial book
Satanic Verses
Kevin Kwan 2013 novel from own privileged upbringing
Crazy Rich Asians
Huck Finn rafts the river with …
Jim
My Fair Lady is a musical adaptation of this play
Pygmalion