Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
HBL Final Authors
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Author of Macbeth | Shakespeare |
| Genre of Macbeth | tragedy |
| historical source of macbeth | Holinshed's Chronicles |
| “To beguile the time,/Look like the time; beat welcome in your eye./Your hand, our tongue. Look like the innocent/Flower, but be the serpent urder’t.” | Macbeth |
| “Infected be the air whereon they ride;/And damned all those that trust them.” | Macbeth |
| “The Thane of Cawdor lives; why do you dress me/In borrowed robes?” | Macbeth |
| Author of "A Modest Proposal" | Swift |
| Deaf author | Swift |
| dean of St. Patrick's | Swift |
| genre of "A Modest Proposal" | juvenalian satire |
| “After all, I am not so violently bent upon my own opinion as to reject any offer proposed by wise men, which shall be found equally innocent, cheap, easy, and effectual” | "A Modest Proposal" |
| “Thus the squire will learn to be a good landlord and grow popular among his tenant; the mother will have eight shilling net profit and be fit for work til she produces another child” | "A Modest Proposal" |
| Who wrote "Will Wimble"? | Addison |
| what author was secretary of state? | Addison |
| What author founded the spectator club? | Addison |
| what genre is "Will Wimble"? | periodic essay |
| what literary device does "Will Wimble" use? | epigraphs |
| is the case of man a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their dignity | "Will Wimble" |
| author of "Alexander Selkirk" | Steele |
| what genre is "Alexander Selkirk"? | periodic essay |
| “...he is happiest who confines his wants to natural necessities and he that goes further in his desires increases his wants in proportion to his acquisitions…” | "Alexander Selkirk" |
| author of Rape of the Lock | Pope |
| who perfected the heroic couplet? | pope |
| who was a dwarf? | pope |
| who was the crippled catholic? | pope |
| who was the "Wasp of Twickenham"? | Pope |
| genre of rape of the lock | Horatian Satire, Mock Epic |
| who was the muse in rape of the lock? | John Caryll, incident between Arabelle Fermer and baron |
| “What dire offenses from amorous causes springs,/What might contests rise from trivial things.” | rape of the lock |
| “This casket India’s gems unlocks./ And all Arabia breathes from yonder box./ The tortoise here and the elephant unite,/ Transformed to combs, the speckled and the white.” | rape of the lock |
| Who wrote the dictionary? | Johnson |
| who wrote the rambler? | Johnson |
| who is the greatest man of letters? | Johnson |
| who founded the Literary Club at Turk’s Head Coffee House | johnson |
| “...was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patron age of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelters of academic bowers, but amidst the inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and sorrow.” | johnson |
| who wrote "The Letter to Chesterfield" | johnson |
| “Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?” | "Letter to Chesterfield" |
| Who wrote the life of samuel johnson | boswell |
| what genre is the life of samuel johnson | biography |
| “No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” | life of samuel johnson |
| who wrote the elegy written in a country churchyard? | gray |
| who was the transitional poet from the age of reason to the romantic period | gray |
| “Far from the maddening crowd’s ignoble strife,/ Their sober wishes never learned to stray./ Along the cool sequestered vale of life/ They kept the noiseless tenor of their ways.” | the elegy |
| who wrote journal of the plague year | defoe |
| what genre is the journal of the plague year | satire |
| "He mourned heartily, as it was easy to see, but with a kind of masculine grief that could not give itself vent by tears; and calmly defying buriers to let him alone, said he would only see the bodies thrown in and go away…” | journal of the plague year |
| who wrote the diary | pepys |
| who wrote "to a mouse" | burns |
| who is the national poet of scotland | burns |
| who is a farmer | burns |
| who uses dialect | burns |
| “The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry,/ And leave us nought but grief and pain/ For promised joy.” | the mouse |
| “Still thou are blest, compared wi’ me!/ The present only toucheth thee:/ But och! I backward cast my e’e/ On prospects drear!/ An’ forward though I canna see,/ I guess an’ fear.” | the mouse |
| who wrote the lamb | blake |
| who was an engraver | blake |
| who used repetition, imagery, and biblical allusions | blake |
| “Dost thou know who made thee/ Gave thee life & bid thee feed,/ By the stream & o’er the mead;/ Gave thee clothing of delight,/ Softest clothing, wooly, bright...” | the lamb |
| “He became a little child:/ I a child & thou a lamb,/ We are called by his name.” | the lamb |
| “ When the stars threw down their spears/ And watered heaven with their tears:/ Did he smile his work to see?/ Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” | the tyger |
| who wrote the tyger | blake |
| who wrote tinturn abbey | wordsworth |
| who wrote lyrical ballads | wordsworth, coleridge |
| who was the poet laureate of the romantic period | wordsworth |
| who was in paris on the first anniversary of the storming of the bastille | wordsworth |
| Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first/ I came among these hills; when like a roe/ I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides/ Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, /Wherever nature led: more like a man | tinturn abbey |
| “Five years have past; five summers, with the length/ Of five long winters! and again I hear/ These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs /With a soft inland murmur.” | tinturn abbey |
| “Nor wilt thou then forget,/ That after many wanderings, many years/ Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs,/ And this green pastoral landscape, were to me/ More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake!” | tinturn abbey |
| who wrote rime of the ancient mariner | coleridge |
| what genre is rime? | ballad |
| “Day after day, day after day,/ We stuck, nor breath nor motion;/ As idle as a painted ship/ Upon a painted ocean.” | rime |
| “The ice was here, the ice was there,/The ice was all around:/It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,/Like noises in a swound!” | rime |
| “The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,/The furrow followed free;/ We were the first that ever burst/ Into that silent sea.” | rime |
| “Water, water, every where,/ And all the boards did shrink;/Water, water, every where,/ Nor any drop to drink.” | rime |
| who is a greek national hero | byron |
| who is the prototype of literary romanticism | byron |
| who writes about relationship | byron |
| “Some women use their tongues--she looked a lecture, /Each eye a sermon, and her brow a homily…” | don juan |
| who wrote don juan | byron |
| “A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, /And mischief-making monkey from his birth; / His parents ne'er agreed except in doting / Upon the most unquiet imp on earth; / Instead of quarreling, had they been but both in | don juan |
| “The languages, especially the dead, / The sciences, and most of all the abstruse, / The arts, at least all such as could be said / To be the most remote from common use,/ In all these he was much and deeply read | don juan |
| who wrote she walks in beauty | byron |
| “She walks in beauty, like the night/ Of cloudless climes and starry skies;/ And all that’s best of dark and bright/ Meet in her aspect and her eyes;/Thus mellowed to that tender light/Which heaven to gaudy day denies.” | she walks in beauty |
| “And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,/So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,/ The smiles that win, the tints that glow,/ But tell of days in goodness spent,/A mind at peace with all below,/ A heart whose love is innocent!” | she walks in beauty |
| who wrote about tyrrany | shelley |
| who was expelled from oxford | shelley |
| who wrote "ode to the west wind" | shelley |
| which piece had terza rima | west wind |
| “Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;/Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh hear!” | west wind |
| what genre is ozymandius | sonnet |
| “Nothing beside remains. Round the decay/ Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare/ The lone and level sands stretch far away.” | ozymandius |
| “Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,/ And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,/ Tell that its sculptor well those passions read/ Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,/ The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed....” | ozymandius |
| who wrote ozymandius | shelley |
| whose major themes are death, art and the importance of art in life | keats |
| who wrote about negative capability | keats |
| who wrote "ode to a nightingale" | keats |
| “Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!/ No hungry generations tread thee down... In ancient days by emperor and clown:/ Perhaps the self-same song that found a path/ Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home | ode to a nightingale |
| “Darkling I listen; and, for many a time/ I have been half in love with easeful Death,/ Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme,/ To take into the air my quiet breath;/ Now more than ever seems it rich to die...” | ode to a nightingale |
| “Away! away! for I will fly to thee,/ Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,/ But on the viewless wings of Poesy,/Though the dull brain perplexes and retards...” | ode to a nightingale |
| who wrote chapman's homer? | keats |
| “Then felt I like some watcher of the skies,/ When a new planet swims into his ken;/ Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes/ He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men/ Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—/ Silent, upon a peak in Darien.” | chapman's homer |
| “Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,/ And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;/ Round many western islands have I been/ Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.” | chapman's homer |
| who wrote dream children | lamb |
| who wrote the vindication? | wollstonecreaft |
| who wrote on knocking at the gate in macbeth? | dequincey |
| who wrote mayor of casterbridge | hardy |
| who wrote a picture of dorian gray? | wilde |
| who wrote brave new world? | huxley |
Created by:
swimmingninja42
Popular Literature sets