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Dice Lit DT
All Literature for Dice Literature DT
Term | Definition |
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Lolita (1955) | -Written by Vladimir Nabokov -About and narrator Humbert Humbert a pedophile -Sexually attracted to 12-year-old Dolores Haze, his stepdaughter -His teenage sweetheart dies -Marries Charlotte Haze to get closer to Dolores |
Siddhartha (1922) | -Written by Hermann Hesse -Set in India -Title character hears Buddha speak -Parallels life of Buddha -About journey of enlightenment |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) | -Written by James Joyce -Stephen Dedalus is the main character -The story tells the story of an artist’s view of the world -Dedalus wants to leave Dublin |
The Great Gatsby (1925) | -Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald -Namesake hosts parties to get closer to Daisy Buchanan -Narrated by Nick Carraway -Takes place in West Egg -Daisy is Tom’s wife -Tom’s mistress, Myrtle, is killed by Daisy in namesakes’s car -George kills namesake |
Ulysses (1922) | -Written by James Joyce -Molly and Leopold Bloom reunite at the end -Molly gives a rambling soliloquy -Takes place in Dublin -Based on Homer’s the Odyssey -18 episodes named after events in the Odyssey - Stephen Dedalus is another protagonist |
Animal Farm (1945) | -Written by George Orwell -Stalinist allegory of Russian communism -Pigs Napoleon and Snowball are the main characters -7 commandments are painted on the wall -“4 legs are good, 2 legs are bad” |
1984 (1949) | -Written by George Orwell -Oceania is a state in airstrip 1 -Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth -Describes experiences with Big Brother -O’Brien tortures Smith who is later brainwashed -O’Brien gives Smith a Goldstein book -Julia likes sex |
A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975) | -Written by Andy Powell -Narrator is Nick Jenkins -Based off a painting by Poussin -12 book series |
Deliverance (1970) | -Written by James Dickey -Narrated by Ed Gentry a graphic artist -Story is a canoe trip on the Cahulawassee river |
Lord of the Flies (1954) | -Written by William Golding -Piggy and Ralph are stranded on an island -Ends with them getting rescued by British ship -Pig head is called namesake -Analogy for human evil |
Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) | -Written by James Baldwin -Tells the story of John Grimes, a smart teen in Harlem -John doesn't know his father -This novel is semi-autobiographical -This novel expresses religious and negro spirit |
Howard's End (1910) | -Written by E.M. Forster -Revolves around 3 families in England -Wilcox, Schlegel, and the Basts families -A lot of cheating and love problems in this novel |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) | -Written by Thornton Wilder -About collapsed Inca bridge in Peru -Discusses fate and direction of life -Tells the story how the people who died on the bridge got there |
All the King's Men (1946) | -Written by Robert Penn Warren -Tells the story of the political power of Willie Stark in South America -Narrated by Jack Burden a political reporter who Stark hired during the book -Title is based on Humpty Dumpty -Stark is assassinated by Stanton |
As I Lay Dying (1930) | -Written by William Faulkner -Title is based on the Odyssey -Written between 12-4 am -The story of the death of Addie Bundren, a poor rural mother -Bundren wants to be buried in Jefferson, Mississippi |
A Handful of Dust (1934) | -Written by Evelyn Waugh -Tony Last joins an expedition to Brazil -Tony is captured by Mr. Todd -Todd drugs him, hides him, and tells the search party that Tony is dead -Tony reads Dickens works to Todd |
The Rivals (1775) | -Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan -Satirical play -Lydia Languish mimics her life to a romantic fiction in this play -It ends with Lydia and Jack reconciling and Julia and Faulkland reconciling |
The Duchess of Malfi (1613) | -Written by John Webster -The namesake character loves Antonio Bologna -Namesake's brother that is a cardinal finds out they're in love and exiles them -At the end, everyone dies except for the children |
All for Love (The World Well Lost) (1677) | -John Dryden -Cleopatra and Mark Antony the Roman are in love -Alexas lies and tells Antony that Cleopatra killed herself -Antony killed himself because he thought Cleopatra is dead -Cleopatra killed herself with a snake because Antony died |
She Stoops to Conquer (The Mistakes of a Night) (1773) | -Written by Oliver Goldsmith -In this comedy, Charles Marlow visits the Hardcastle family -Marlow and Kate Hardcastle are forced to marry -Tony refuses his arranged marriage when he discovers he's an adult |
The Jew of Malta (1589) | -Written by Christopher Marlowe -Barabas, the main character, gets riches taken by the governor -Barabas helps Turks take over his old country. -Barabas is then named the governor of the country but decides to identify with old country so he is killed |
(The Tragical History of the Life and Death of) Doctor Faustus (1593) | -Written by Christopher Marlowe -Valdes and Cornelius teach namesake character to summon a demon -The namesake character then signs his soul to Lucifer -He is healthy for 24 years but doesn't pray so he gets dragged to hell after those years |
Every Man in his Humour (1598) | -Written by Ben Johnson -Knowell an old gentleman worries about his son Edward and his involvement with the wellbred. -Based in London -A sequel was written |
Volpone (1605) | -Written by Ben Johnson -Every character is based off of an animal -Namesake character is the sole heir -Character is later punished for wrongdoings in disguise -Ends with namesake character asking the audience to applaud |
The Spanish Tragedy (Hieronimo is Mad Again) (1585) | -Written by Thomas Kyd -Takes place during Spain-Portugal war -Has a play within a play -At the end, people go to hell |
Tom Wolfe Jr. (1931-) | -Wrote The Right Stuff -Wrote The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test -Wrote The Bonfire of the Vanities -Pioneer of New Journalism |
Stephen King (1947-) | -Wrote The Shining -Wrote The Dark Tower series -Wrote IT -Horror author |
H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) | -Wrote “The Whisperer in Darkness” -Wrote “the Call of Cthulhu” about an octopus like monster -Wrote “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” -Wrote “At the Mountains of Madness” -Many of his stories are based in Arkham, Massachusetts |
Harlan Ellison (1934-) | -Wrote “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” -Created the super-evil computer AM -Wrote Star Trek episode “City on the Edge of Forever” |
Long John Silver | -Character in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson -One legged cook -Leader of Pirates who are the antagonist in the book -Was the quartermaster to Captain Flint for some time -His Parrot said “Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!” |
The Golden Bowl (1904) | -Written by Henry James -Maggie Verver buys the title flawed disk -Charlotte Stant and Adam Verver have an affair -At the end of the novel, all the prince can see is Maggie |
Catch-22 (1961) | -Written by Joseph Heller -Yossarian is a pilot in the 256 squadron -They send pilots to their death -Yossarian pledges to follow Orr to Sweden -Set in the island of Pianosa -Milo Minderbinder bombs their squadron -Snowden’s guts fall out from wound |
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) | -Written by John Steinbeck -The Joad family travels to California from Oklahoma during the great depression and the dust bowl -Casy becomes a labor organizer -Rose of Sharon saves starving people with her breast milk |
Sister Carrie (1900) | -Written by Theodore Dreiser -Focusing on Caroline Meeber -Money gets stolen from a salon by George Hurstwood -Charles Drouet is met on a train to Chicago -Meeber and Hurstwood flee to Canada but Meeber drives Hurstwood to bankruptcy and suicide |
An American Tragedy (1925) | -Written by Theodore Dreiser -Natural novel about the execution of Clyde Griffith -Griffiths is a bellhop, then a factory worker, then a supervisor -Griffith kills Roberta Alden with a camera |
Darkness at Noon (1940) | -Written by Arthur Koestler -About Rubashov and his morals -Taps against the wall to talk with 402 after he is in jail for crimes against number 1 -Lies and confesses his crimes in a show trial in the stalinist purges -Number 1 is a communist party |
Native Son (1940) | -Written by Richard Wright -Takes place in Chicago -Bigger Thomas kills Mary Dalton -About the rage and murder charges against African-American Bigger Thomas |
Brave New World (1932) | -Written by Aldous Huxley -John the Savage participates in an Indian religious ritual -Bernard Marx and John are friends -Ends with John hanging himself and Marx being exiled |
Winesburg, Ohio (1919) | -Written by Sherwood Anderson -22 short stories with 4 parts in each -George Willard is a reporter -Wing Biddlebaum is a gay child molestor |
Tender is the Night (1934) | -F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final novel -Semi-autobiographical novel about Nicole and Dick Diver -Psychoanalyst is married to a former patient and schizophrenic |
The Wings of the Dove (1902) | -Written by Henry James -English couple tries to swindle the American Milly Theale -Relationship problems between everybody |
Invisible Man (1952) | -Written by Ralph Ellison -Nameless narrator is unperceived due to his race -Narrator is expelled from college by Dr. Bledsoe -Narrator takes Mr. Norton to a black brothel -Narrator is involved in the paint industry |