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82 Cards in this Set
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Captain Ahab is a character in which novel?
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Moby Dick
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The story of Utnapishtim is similar to the real story of _____.
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Noah
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Who wrote Discourse on Method?
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René Descartes
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Who is Hector's father
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Priam
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Who is Brutus's wife?
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Portia
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Sir Walter Scott wrote _____.
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"Lochinvar"
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In which city does Antigone take place?
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Thebes
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In which city was Mars' Hill located?
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Athens
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Cervantes was a _____ author.
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Spanish
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Homer wrote the Iliad and ____.
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Odyssey
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Who wrote The Republic?
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Plato
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"The Erl-king" was written by ____.
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Goethe
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Pyramus loved a girl named ___.
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Thisbe
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Which famous detective in "The Red-headed League"/
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Sherlock Holmes
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Who ran in a footrace during the festival of the Lupercal?
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Antony
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Antigone was written by ____.
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Sophocles
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Robert Browning was from ____.
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England
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In what year was William Shakespeare born?
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1564
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Who persuaded Brutus to join the conspiracy against Caesar?
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Cassius
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How long was Odysseus away from home?
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twenty years
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Who wrote "Excelsior"?
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Who symbolized divine revelation in Divine Comedy?
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Beatrice
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What dominated all areas of life in Europe during the Middle Ages?
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the Roman Church
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Who wrote Pilgrim's Progress?
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John Bunyan
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Don Quixote definitely believed in ____.
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chivalry
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What kind of animal was Argos?
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dog
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When was Julius Caesar assassinated?
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March 15
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Who wrote "The Death of the Hired Man"?
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Robert Frost
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Who was Antigene's father?
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Oedipus
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Paul condemned the Greeks because of their _____.
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pagan religion
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Whom did Eppie Marner marry?
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Aaron Winthrop
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Leo Tolstoy is of what nationality?
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Russian
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Hebrew poetry relies non on rhyme but on ____.
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parallelism
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Another name for unrhymed iambic pentameter is ____.
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blank verse
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How many metrical feet are in a heptameter?
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7
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point of highest intensity
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climax
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ridicule of human folly or vice
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satire
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human qualities given to inanimate objects
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personification
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truth expressed in the form of an apparent contradiction
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paradox
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regular recurrence of sound
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rhythm
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central idea
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theme
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soft, smooth, pleasant sounds
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euphony
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two rhyming lines
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couplet
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initial consonant or vowel sounds are the same
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alliteration
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Which of the following are NOT used in The Republic?
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tower
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John Wycliffe translated the Bible into what language?
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English
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Who wrote Don Quixote?
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Miguel de Cervantes
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Queen Dido was queen of ____.
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Carthage
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What group of people built the wooden horse?
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Greeks
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"And the boy...left his father,
Soared higher,...and the wax that held the wings melted." |
Icarus
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"he is given/To sports, to wildness, and much company."
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Mark Antony
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"you yourself/Are much condemned to have an itching palm."
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Cassius
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"the noblest Roman of them all."
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Brutus
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"a blonde dimpled girl of eighteen who has vainly tried to chastise her curly auburn hair."
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Eppie Marner
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"the eldest, a fine open-faced good-natured young man who was to come into the land some day."
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Godfrey Cass
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"as for her own person, it gave the same idea of perfect unvarying neatness as the body of a little bird."
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Nancy Lammeter
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"Boys, my father will get everything before we can and leave nothing big and brilliant for me, to show what we can do!"
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Alexander
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"I used to keep working at my great web all day long, but at night I would unpick the stitches.
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Penelope
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"I am an enemy to this Prince;
I hate His person, His laws, and people" |
Apollyon
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"How can I rest, how can I be at peace? Despair is in my heart. What my brother is now, then shall I be when I am dead."
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Gilgamesh
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What is a light, humorous play that ends happily?
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comedy
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"I think, therefore, I am?"
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Rene Descartes
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William Law greatly influenced what famous brothers?
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John and Charles Wesley
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was lost where?
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Sahara Desert
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The Kon-Tiki traveled on which ocean?
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Pacific
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Pearl's Buck's parents were missionaries to what country country?
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China
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Who said, "aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!"
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Captain Ahab
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Who said,"Et tu, Brute?"
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Caesar
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Who was Alexander the Great's teacher?
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Aristotle
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What was the name of Shakespeare's theater?
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the Globe
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"The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
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Robert Browning
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"The Garden-Party"
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Katherine Mansfield
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Call of the Wild
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Jack London
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"The Tell-Tale Heart"
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Paradise Lost
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John Milton
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Pilgrim's Progess
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John Bunyan
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"What Men Live By"
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Leo Tolstoy
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Silas Marner
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George Eliot
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"The Entrance to Hell"
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Dante
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"The Great Stone Face"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Book of Martyrs
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John Fixe
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"The Road Not Taken"
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Robert Frost
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