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A novel by Jane Austen, it was
originally titled First Impressions
What is Pride and Prejudice ?
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An Anglo-Saxon folk epic, it
marks the beginning of English
literature
What is Beowulf ?
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Written in the Middle Ages, it uses a
pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas a
Becket as a frame story
What is The Canterbury Tales ?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed to have
dreamed this poem line for line, after fallilng
asleep while reading a passage from a work
about the founder of the great Mongol dynasty
What is “Kubla Khan”?
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This well known poem by Robbie Burns
provided John Steinbeck with the title for
one of his most famous novels.
What is Of Mice and Men ?
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“I have no spur / To prick the sides of my
intent, but only / Vaulting ambition, which
o’erleaps itself / and falls on th’other –”
Who is Macbeth ?
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“… when he shall die, / Take him and cut him
out in little stars, / And he will make the face of
heaven so fine / That all the world will be in
love with night / And pay no worship to the
garish sun.”
Who is Juliet ?
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“To strive, to seek, to find, and
not to yield.”
Who is Ulysses ?
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“He prayeth best, who loveth best /
All things both great and small…”
Who is the Ancient Mariner?
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“O mother, mother, make my
bed, / O make it soft and narrow:
Since my love died for me today,
/ I’ll die for him tomorrow.”
Who is Bonnie Barbara Allan ?
LITERARY TERMS
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A Latin phrase, it means “seize
the day.”
What is “carpe diem” ?
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The high point of interest or
suspense in a literary work
What is climax ?
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The perspective or vantage point
from which a story is told
What is point of view ?
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A moment of insight in which a
character recognizes some truth
What is epiphany ?
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A deliberate exaggeration or
overstatement
What is hyperbole ?
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A character in both Mother
Goose and Lewis Carroll
Who is Humpty Dumpty ?
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A character in A Christmas Carol
and Donald Duck’s uncle
Who is Scrooge ?
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A Shakespearean tragic figure
and a type of salad
Who is Caesar?
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A mythical world bearer and a
tire company
Who is Atlas ?
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The Roman god of war and a
candy company
Who is Mars ?
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“She walks in beauty like …”
What is the night ?
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“Fair is foul and …”
What is foul is fair ?
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“Death be not …”
What is proud ?
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“How do I love thee? Let me …”
What is count the ways ?
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“For never was a story of more
woe / Than this of …”
What is Juliet and her Romeo ?