Literature Flashcards
Antihero
Main character who lacks heroism
Anachronism
Error in time sequence
Bildungsroman
Autobiographical novel
Canto
Division of a long poem
Denouement
Final part of a work
Doggerel
Bad poetry
Elegy
Poem expressing sadness
Foot
Unit of verse
Kitsch
Work of poor quality or reputation
Lampoon
Satirical portrayal
Meter
A poem’s rhythm
Paradox
Illogical statements used to create insight
Pathos
Something used to get sympathy
Prose
Non poetic language
Rhetoric
Persuasive writing
Sonnet
14 line poem
Aeschylus
Prometheus bound
Horatio alger
American novelist
Aristophanes
The clouds
Honore de Balzac
La comedie humaine
Charles Baudelaire
Les fleurs du mal
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
Saul bellow
Herzog
William Blake
Songs of innocence
Lord George Byron
Don Juan
Albert Camus
The stranger
Willa Cather
Death comes for the archbishop
Anton pavlovich chekov
The cherry orchard
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The rime of the ancient mariner
Joseph Conrad
Heart of darkness
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
John Donne
Death be not proud poem
Fyodor dostoevsky
Crime and punishment
John Dryden
Alexander’s feast
George Eliot
Middlemarch
T.S. Eliot
The waste land
Ralph Ellison
The invisible man
Euripides
Greek dramatist know for tragedies
Gustave Flaubert
Madame bovary
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Faust
THOMAS hardy
Tess of the d’urbervilles
Herman Hesse
Siddhartha
Zora Neal Hurston
Their eyes were watching god
Henry James
The turn of the screw
John Keats
Ode on a Grecian urn
Jack Kerouac
On the road
Kipling
The jungle book
D.H. Lawrence
Lady chatterly’s lover
Lewis Sinclair
Main Street
Jack London
Call of the wild
Thomas Mann
The magic mountain
Christopher Marlowe
Dr. Faustus
John Milton
Paradise lost
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
Eugene o’neill
A long day’s journey into night
Ovid
Metamorphoses
Thomas Paine
Common sense
Petrarch
Italian Renaissance poet
Sylvia Plath
The bell jar
Plutarch
The parallel lives
Ezra pound
American poet
Marcel Proust
Remembrance of things past
Salman Rushdie
The satanic verses
Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe
George Bernard shaw
Pygmalion
Percy bysshe Shelley
Prometheus unbound
Upton Sinclair
The jungle
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
One day in the life of Ivan denisovich
Edmund Spenser
The faerie queen
Jonathan swift
Gulliver’s travels
John Updike
Rabbit, run
Virgil
The aeineid
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-five
Edith Wharton
Ethan frome
Thornton wilder
Our town
William butler Yeats
The winding stair