Academic Team Literature Flashcards

Algerian author who wrote The Stranger, "The Rebel," and The Plague.

Albert Camus

After her death from cancer at the age of 34, her husband, Robert Nemiroff, completed her two last plays.

Lorraine Hansberry

Author who wrote The Book of the Duchess, Canterbury Tales, and House of Fame.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Name this epic poem by John Milton that ends with with the first humans being exiled from the Garden of Eden.

Paradise Lost

John Milton

This author was an English poet who wrote Paradise Lost and Areopagitica.

Name the author and play in which the title character conjures up Mephistopheles, the servant of Lucifer, and offers him his soul in exchange for 24 years of having his every wish fulfilled.

Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

This American author wrote about a woman's murder in "A Rose for Emily." Name this man who wrote As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

Zeus

This Greek god forced his father, Cronus, to vomit up his siblings. Name this Greek thunder god, who is the leader of the Greek gods.

Poseidon

This Greek god is known as the Earthshaker. Name this Greek god of the sea who wields a trident.

Hades

This Greek god's wife is Persephone. Name this Greek god of the underworld.

Lorraine Hansberry's first play was this 1959 work, dealing with a black family trying to escape the Chicago ghetto.

A Raisin in the Sun

Aristotle

This man was the tutor of Alexander the Great. Name this Greek philosopher who wrote Poetics.

This man wrote The Republic and The Allegory of the Cave. Name this ancient Greek philosopher, student of Socrates

Plato

Euripides

This man was an ancient Greek author. He wrote about Jason's wife in Medea and also wrote The Bacchae.

Aristophanes

In one of this man's plays, animals chant,"Brekekekex koax koax." Name this Greek playwright of The Birds, The Frogs, and The Wasps.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This man wrote the Beautiful and the Damned. He also wrote about Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby.

Name this author who wrote The Brothers Karamazov and told about Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment.

Dostoyevsky

The poetic meter expressed by an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is called what?

Iambic or Iamb

Name the play by George Bernard Shaw titles after a sculptor from classical mythology who at first gated women, but who later fell in love with a statue of a woman which he had made.

Pygmalion

The main character of this 1964 Hansberry play is a Jew who rediscovers his belief in social justice after becoming disillusioned.

The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

Name this French author of Sentimental Education and Madame Bovary.

Gustave Flaubert

A humorist, journalist, and short story writer, his first excursions into writing were as the owner of "The Iconoclast" and a columnist for the "Houston Chronicle" and "New York World." After serving three years in prison for embezzlement, he moved to New York and began his prolific short story career. FTP name this author, whose most famous work is "Gift of the Magi."

O. Henry

In what play does Arthur Miller chronicle his turbulent romance with Marilyn Monroe?

After the Fall

One couple in this play pretends to have a son who died after swerving his car to avoid a porcupine. Name this play in which George and Martha invite Nick and Honey over to their house to play games like "Get the Guest" and "Humiliate the Host."

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Name the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. This Kansas-born author won in 1950 with: "Annie Allen".

Gwendolyn Brooks

In this book by Ray Bradbury, a carnival comes to town and strange things begin to happen. What is the title of this book?

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Name this German author whose Danzig Trilogy contains his most famous work, The Tin Drum.

Grass

Name this author of "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" who wrote in "Mending Wall" that "good fences make good neighbors."

Frost

Identify this author of the collection Twice-Told Tales who wrote of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter.

Hawthorne

Name this novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne in which Hester Prynne is branded with a red emblem.

The Scarlet Letter

What American author wrote that book, the title of which came from Macbeth's quote: "Life . . . is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."?

(William) Faulkner, The Sound and The Fury

Name this massive French novel centering on Inspector Javert and the escaped conflict Jean Valjean, by Victor Hugo.

Les Miserables

Name this French novelist who wrote about the thief Jean Valjean in Les Miserables and about Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Victor Hugo

Name this Athenian playwright of the Theban Trilogy, including Oedipus Rex.

Sophocles

Name this tragedy about a ruler of Thebes who learns that he killed Laius and married his mother, written by Sophocles.

Oedipus Rex

Name this author of Wuthering Heights, the sister of Anne and Charlotte.

Emily Bronte

What type of verbal phrase is found in this sentence: "Driving to Topeka every week is becoming expensive."?

Gerund

Name this Elizabethan writer whose 154 sonnets include one which begins "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

Shakespeare

Name this play about Cordelia and her sisters, daughters of the title monarch in this work by William Shakespeare.

King Lear

This work by William Shakespeare features a Prince of Denmark who loses his love, Ophelia.

Hamlet

Name this comedy by Shakespeare centering on Petruchio's courtship of Katherina, the title figure.

The Taming of the Shrew

Name this English writer of Bleak House and Great Expectations, who also wrote A Christmas Carol.

Charles Dickens

Name this Charles Dickens novel centering on Esther Summerson who lives in the title location.

Bleak House

Tale of Genji

Name this Japanese novel about Heian court life, written by Murasaki Shikibu.

A Tale of Two Cities

Name this Charles Dickens novel about Charles Darnay that begins, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

Identify this author of "The Kreutzer Sonata" and Anna Karenina, Leo. He also wrote War and Peace.

Leo Tolstoy

Name this novel consisting mostly of letters written to God and Nettie by Celie, the best-known work of Alice Walker.

The Color Purple

Name this novel about the defense of Tom Robinson against false rape accusations by Atticus Finch, a work of Harper Lee.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Name this Russian author of "The Nose," "The Overcoat," and Dead Souls.

Nikolai Gogol

Amaterasu

This daughter of Izanagi and sister of the storm god Susanoo is considered to be one of the most important kami. Name this Shinto sun goddess.

This author's father's 1940 court fight against racist housing laws provided the basis for Hansberry's play about the Younger family, who attempt to move into an all-white Chicago suburb but are confronted by discrimination. The first play by an African-American woman to be performed on Broadway, it also tore down the racial stereotyping found in other works of the time. The title comes from the Langston Hughes poem "Harlem" (often called "A Dream Deferred").

Lorraine Hansberry

Vishnu

Identify this Hindu "preserver" god, who forms the Trimurti (treh-MORE-tee) with the creator Brahma and destroyer Shiva.

Name this novel about the phony-hating Holden Caulfield by J.D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

Hermes

Identify this Greek counterpart of the Roman Mercury, who flew about with his winged sandals.

Aphrodite

This Greek goddess is the wife of Hephaestus as well as the goddess of love and beauty.

Pegasus

Identify this winged horse from Greek mythology, who was tamed by Bellorophon.

The Canterbury Tales

Name this poetry collection narrated by pilgrims at the Tabard Inn, written by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Shintoism

Name this belief system centered on worshipping the kami, or nature spirits, of Japan.

Name this French medieval epic, a "song" named after a soldier in the army of Charlemagne.

The Song of Roland

Name this creator of the character Okonkwo, the Nigerian author of Things Fall Apart.

Chinua Achebe

Name this work set in Umuofia and starring Okonkwo, written by Chinua Achebe.

Things Fall Apart

Horus

Name this Egyptian god, the son of Isis and Osiris who is depicted with the head of a falcon.

Sobek

Identify this Egyptian god of the Nile whose animal form is suggested by the name of another of his major cult centers, Crocodilopolis.

Name this poem which includes the line "Good fences make good neighbors," written by Robert Frost.

Mending Wall

Name this Polish-born British author of Lord Jim who detailed the corruption and death of Mr. Kurtz in Heart of Darkness.

Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

What novella in which the last words "The horror, the horror!" are uttered by Kurtz to Marlow in the Belgian Congo, written by Joseph Conrad?

Name this American author who also created the characters Becky Thatcher, Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn.

Mark Twain

Name this author of short stories such as "The Ransom of Red Chief" and "The Gift of the Magi."

O. Henry

Name this poet of "Tithonus" and "Crossing the Bar," who wrote "Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred" in a memorial written after a Crimean War loss, his "Charge of the Light Brigade."

Tennyson

Name this author of "Mandalay," "If," and "Gunga Din," who created the characters of Akela, Bagheera, and Mowgli in The Jungle Book.

Rudyard Kipling

Name this Belle of Amherst who wrote "I heard a fly buzz when I died" and "Because I could not stop for Death."

Emily Dickinson

Name this play in which Prospero conjures the title storm in an attempt to regain the Duchy of Milan, written by Shakespeare.

The Tempest

Name this Shakespeare tragedy in which the titular Thane of Cawdor murders King Duncan, often referred to as the "Scottish Play."

Macbeth

Name this novel, in which the insane Bertha Mason is kept in an attic by Mr. Rochester, written by Charlotte Bronte.

Jane Eyre

Identify this third of Sophocles's Theban plays, centering on a daughter of Oedipus.

Antigone

Name this English author who wrote the dystopian 1984 and Animal Farm.

George Orwell

Name this novel in which a bunch of sheep bleat "Four legs good, two legs bad!" and Stalin is allegorized as the pig Napoleon in a "fairy story" by George Orwell.

Animal Farm

Name this dystopian work about Winston Smith's life under Big Brother, a novel by George Orwell.

1984

Name this American author of "The Cask of Amontillado," the "Tell Tale Heart," and "The Raven."

Edgar Allen Poe

Name this play which ends shortly after the suicide of the title character, Willy Loman, written by Arthur Miller.

Death of a Salesman

Miller

Name this American playwright who wrote The Crucible and created Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman.

Hemingway

Name this author of The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea.

The Old Man and the Sea

Name this novella about the Cuban fisherman Santiago, written by Ernest Hemingway.

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

Name this story by Hemingway in which Harry imagines a plane taking him to the title mountain.

The Sun Also Rises

Name this novel about the veteran Jake Barnes, written by Ernest Hemingway.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Name this novel about Robert Jordan which is set during the Spanish Civil War, a work of Ernest Hemingway.

Othello

Name this Shakespeare play in which the title character murders Desdemona due to the machinations of Iago.

Name this author of Travels with Charlie, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath.

John Steinbeck

Name the gerund in the following sentence: "His favorite pastime is running."

Running

The Grapes of Wrath

Name this Depression era novel about the Joad family's travels from Oklahoma to California, a work of John Steinbeck.

The Pearl

Name this novella by John Steinbeck in which Kino finds the title object inside of a large oyster.

Which American author wrote Slaughterhouse-Five?

Kurt Vonnegut

Aeneid

Name this work in which Queen Dido commits suicide, an epic about the titular Trojan hero by Vergil.

Vonnegut

Name this author of Cat's Cradle who told the story of Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-Five.

Which work by T.S. Eliot contains the statement, "This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang, but a whimper."?

The Hollow Men

Slaughterhouse-Five

Name this book including appearances by Howard Campbell, Eliot Rosewater, and Kilgore Trout, three of the author's other protagonists; a 1969 novel centering on Billy Pilgrim's memories of the firebombing of Dresden, by Kurt Vonnegut.

Lao Tzu

Name this figure who wrote the Dao Dejing, the founder of Daoism.

Journey to the West

Name this work centering around Sun Wukong, one of China's Four Great Classical Novels by Wu Cheng'en.

Ganesha

Name this remover of obstacles in Hinduism, a god whose decapitated head was replaced by that of an elephant.

Indra

Identify this king of the Vedic demigods, the Hindu god of war, storms, and rain.