Lecture Notes Vocabulary Flashcards: Poetry, Theatre, and World Leaders

Vocabulary flashcards covering poets/works, playwrights, and world leaders from the lecture notes.

L'infinito

Poem by Giacomo Leopardi (Italy).

The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal)

Poetry collection by Charles Baudelaire (France).

Leaves of Grass

Poetry collection by Walt Whitman (USA).

The Waste Land

Poem by T. S. Eliot (England/USA).

The Servant of Two Masters

Venetian comedy by Carlo Goldoni (Italy).

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo)

Novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Italy).

Con gli occhi chiusi

Novel by Federigo Tozzi (Italy).

Lessico famigliare

Memoir by Natalia Ginzburg (Italy).

George Washington

First President of the United States (1789–1797).

Abraham Lincoln

Led the U.S. Civil War; emancipated enslaved people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Led the U.S. during the Great Depression and WWII.

John F. Kennedy

President during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Richard Nixon

President involved in the Watergate scandal.

Ronald Reagan

President who helped end the Cold War.

Barack Obama

First African-American U.S. President (2009–2017).

Donald Trump

President (2017–2021).

Joe Biden

Current U.S. President (since 2021).

A Doll's House

Play by Henrik Ibsen (Norway).

The Cherry Orchard

Play by Anton Chekhov (Russia).

The Seagull

Play by Anton Chekhov (Russia).

Waiting for Godot

Play by Samuel Beckett (Ireland/France).

A Streetcar Named Desire

Play by Tennessee Williams (USA).

Death of a Salesman

Play by Arthur Miller (USA).

L'infinito

Poem by Giacomo Leopardi (Italy).

The Flowers of Evil (Baudelaire)

Poetry collection by Charles Baudelaire (France).

Leaves of Grass (Whitman)

Poetry collection by Walt Whitman (USA).

The Waste Land (Eliot)

Poem by T. S. Eliot (England/USA).

Barack Obama

Barack Obama - first African-American president (2009–2017).

Donald Trump

Donald Trump - president (2017–2021).

Joe Biden

Current president (since 2021).

Winston Churchill

WWII Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Margaret Thatcher

First female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Tony Blair

Prime Minister who led Britain (1997–2007); Iraq War involvement.

Rishi Sunak

Current UK Prime Minister since 2022.

Napoleon Bonaparte

French Emperor (1804–1815).

Charles de Gaulle

Leader of Free France during WWII; later President.

François Mitterrand

French Socialist President (1981–1995).

Emmanuel Macron

Current French President since 2017.

Otto von Bismarck

Unified Germany (1871).

Adolf Hitler

Nazi dictator (1933–1945).

Konrad Adenauer

First post-war Chancellor (1949–1963).

Angela Merkel

First female Chancellor of Germany (2005–2021).

Olaf Scholz

Current German Chancellor since 2021.

Vladimir Lenin

Bolshevik leader (1917).

Joseph Stalin

Soviet dictator during WWII.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Glasnost & Perestroika; Nobel Peace Prize.

Boris Yeltsin

First President of the Russian Federation.

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia since 2000; dominant figure.