Literature Flashcards
This was taken from what novel?
You had to live–did live, from habit that became instinct–in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
1984 written by George Orwell
Complete this verse by Ogden Nash with a word meaning “abhorrent.”
The song of canaries
Never varies,
And when they’re molting
They’re pretty …
revolting
The Canary
The name of what dog is in the title of a Jack London novel?
White Fang
Who wrote “Great Expectations”?
Charles Dickens
Who wrote “Tao te Ching”?
Laozi (founder of taoism)
Who wrote “Annabelle Lee”?
Edgar Alan Poe
In literature, what kind of animal is “Rosinante‖” as found in Don Quixote??
horse
/The Decameron/ was originally written in what language?
Italian
written by Giovanni Boccaccio
"Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table, Pounded on the table, Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom, Hard as they were able, Boom, boom, Boom, With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom, Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom."
From what poem is this from?
The Congo by Vachel Lindsey
Who wrote “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick”?
Jonathan Swift
Commonly referred to as just “A Modest Proposal”
In the Oxfordian theory, who is thought to have authored the Shakespearean literature?
Edward de Vere
Who wrote “De revolutionibus orbium coelestium”?
Nicolaus Copernicus
On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
From what poem is this? Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
The Charge Light Brigade by Lord Alfred
Who narrated One Thousand and One Arabian Nights?
Scheherazade, a Persian queen
From what poem is this from?
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.
Howl by Allen Ginsberg
Name the authors of The Communist Manifesto.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Who authored this excerpt? anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did
Edward Estlin Cummings
From what poem is this from?
Listen my children and you shall hear
The Midnight Ride of Pual Revere
by Henry Longfellow
What is the oldest known English epic poem?
Beowulf (c. 975-1025)
Name the three musketeers.
Athos, Porthos, Aramis
From The Three Musketeers, written by Alexandre Dumas in 1844, originally in French
From what poem is this from? I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane.
They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town.
The Last Leaf
written by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Whose pseudonym was “Boz,” author of Pickwick Papers and contributor to the Morning Chronicle?
Charles Dickens
The 13th Century Italian poet named Dante Alighieri wrote a poem about an imaginary journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, which is considered perhaps the greatest poem of the Middle Ages. What is the name?
Divine Comedy
Where were each of the following Shakespearean plays set?
•Hamlet
•Macbeth
•Romeo and Juliet
- Hamlet : Denmark
- Macbeth : Scotland
- Romeo and Juliet : Verona, Italy
Who wrote Little Women?
Louisa Alcott
In the best-selling novel, “Life of Pi,” how long was Pi at sea?
227 days - Life of Pi was written by Yann Martel, a Canadian author.
Where was Beowulf set in?
Scandinavia
The book War of the Roses was written by whom?
Warren Adler - Adler also penned Random Hearts.
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower” is the first line to which famous poem?
Auguries of Innocence - Auguries of Innocence was written by William Blake
Who wrote the classic story “Rip Van Winkle”?
Washington Irving - A short story, Rip Van Winkle was published in 1819.
“The free bird leaps on the back of the wind” is a line from what poem?
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - The poem was written by Maya Angelou.
Charles Dickens and Oliver Twister, from the book with the same name or otherwise known as “A Parish Boy’s Progress,” both share what aspect from their life’s?
They both were child workers.
Charles Dickens and Oliver Twister, from the book with the same name or otherwise known as “A Parish Boy’s Progress,” both share what aspect from their life’s?
They both were child workers.
Who wrote “A Room with a View”?
E. M. Forester
Who wrote the science fiction novel about a lunar colony’s revolt from Earth called “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”?
Robert Heinlein
Name the authors (real and pen name) of these three books:
Jane Eyre
Withering Heights
Agnes Grey
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Brontë (Currer Bell)
Wuthering Heights- Emily B. (Ellis B.)
Agnes Grey- Anne B. (Acton B.)
