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AmericanLit Keywords
Keywords about American literature by character
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Giles Corey, Tituba, Rev. John Proctor, Abagail Williams, Rev. Samuel Parris, Judge Danforth, Mary Warren, Thomas Putnam | The Crucible (Arthur Miller) |
| Governor Bellingham, Roger Chillingsworth, Mistress Hibbins, The Beadle, Reverend Wilson, Pearl Prynne, Hester Prynne | The Scarlett Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) |
| Professor Faber, Mrs. Phelps, Mildred Montag, Granger, Clarisse McClellan, Mrs. Bowles, Guy Montag | Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) |
| Dolphus Raymond | To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) |
| soliloquy, Yorick, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Murder of Gonzago, Laertes, poison-coated, stabbed through a curtain, Hecuba, “artistic failure” (TS Eliot), “frailty, thy name is woman”, poisoned wine, Reynoldo, “graveyard scene”, invasion of Poland | Hamlet (Shakespeare) |
| Tiresias, Laius, Jocasta, stopping a plague, killed his father at a crossroads, grove sacred to furies, Oedipus at Colonus, “Noone should be considered fortunate until he is dead” | Oedipus (Sophocles) |
| “none of woman born shall harm him”, army dressed as trees, c-section, sleepwalks, “out, out, damned spot”, Great Birnam Wood, Dunisane Hill, Inverness Castle, “screw your courage to the sticking place”, Ross, Thane of Glamis and Cawdor | Macbeth (Shakespeare) |
| “sub-sub-librarian", “Enoch Mudge”, “Father Mapple”, Spouter Inn, The Racheal, Faulkner “wished he had written”, nails a gold dubloon to the mast, Pip, Fedallah, Tashtego, death by hemp rope | Moby Dick |
| Hotel de Ville, American dream, Dan Cody, Old Sport, 1919 World Series, TJ Eckleburg, Valley of Ashes, Swastika Holding Co., cufflinks of molars, McKees, Rosy Rosenthal, related to Kaiser Wilhelm, medal from Montenegro, Walter Chase, Klipspringer, | The Great Gatsby |
| army plagued by disease, army containing Diomedes, Dolon, Robert Fagles, Steven Mitchell, Chrysies, Agamemnon | The Ilead |
| inflated a dog, hollow cane, can’t find books, “sorry countenance”, Samson Carrasco, battles wineskins, Knight of Mirrors, Balsam of Fierabras | Don Quixote (Cervantes) |
| friend rolled in a blanket and tossed, refusal to pay an inn, “The Song of Despair”, Vivaldo, Knight of the White Moon, go home for a year, whip himself 3,300 times | Don Quixote (Cervantes) |
| fights traders from Toledo, Don Haludo tricks him into thinking he will stop beating his servant Andrew, Dapple, Marcela, Helmet of Mambrino, Aldonza inspires him to attack travelers, burnt library | Don Quixote (Cervantes) |
| Rosaline, Queen Mab speech, “parting is such sweet sorrow”, “what’s in a name”, Tybalt, “prince of cats”, Friar Lawrence, Benvolio, Mercutio, “fairies' midwife”, Balthasar, Prince Escalus, “a plague on both your houses”, Friar John, Gregory and Samson | Romeo and Juliet |
| Ovid, King Midas’s ears, Chauntecleer the rooster, sovereignty is what women want, Tabard Inn, convinced to hang bathtubs, Alisoun, marrying a witch, 100 tragic stories, Absolon, Palamon and Arcite | Canterbury Tales |
| flames that don’t produce light, Pandemonium, “dismal universal hiss”, rather rule in hell than serve in heaven, angel Michael, Beelzebub, Ithuriel, Mammon, Satan’s Palace, Uriel, Mulciber, turning into snakes | Paradise Lost |
| pink coral paperweight, Mr. Charrington, “War is Peace”, “Ignorance is Strength”, punished after not removing the word “god” from a Kipling book, “Ninth Three Year Plan” | 1984 |
| Ministry of Truth, “great huge fat man”, Two Minutes Hate, half a pint too little, a full pint too much, Victory Mansions, “here comes the chopper to chop off your head”, Syme, Newspeak | 1984 |
| Brabantio, “making the beast with two backs”, Paul Robeson, handkerchief, “loved wisely but too well”, Cyprus, vows not to shed blood when killing his lover, Cassio, Roderigo, Emilia, Willow Song, Gratiano, Barbary, Montano | Othello |
| King Alcinous, Nausicaa, Helios’s cattle, get past a whirlpool, left for war 20 years ago, Scylla, Charybdis, blind bard, Samuel Butler argued it was written by a woman from Sicily | Odyssey |
| Laertes’s daughter-in-law weaves and unravels a burial shroud, told in nonlinear, Argos, “wealth is meaningless”, honey-sweet fruit, Lotus Eaters | Odyssey |
| Kazantzakis has a modern sequel, 33,333 lines, a swine-herd Eumaeus, Helen gives a potion to inspire good dreams | Odyssey |
| Governor Winthrop linked to the sighting of a meteor, Master Brackett, needlework, scaffold scenes, John Wilson, staring sailors, shared tombstone, Johnathan Pue | Scarlett Letter |
| witch lady, “signed my name in the black man's book”, Elfish Spirit, built a cemetery and a prison, red-hot iron, devil-figure, Governor Bellingham, playing by a brook, Mistress Hibbins, plucked from a rosebush | Scarlett Letter |
| sins, captured by native Americans, prefatory section, faded red tape, native herbs, the leech, begins with the Custom House, crooked shoulders, “sunshine does not love you”, Anne Hutchinson | Scarlett Letter |
| “preserve the king”, “let your indulgence set me free”, Gonazalo and Sebastian disobey the boatswain, coral made bones, spirits representing Iris, Ceres, and Juno, Sycorax | The Tempest |
| Shakespeare’s most musical play, Elizabeth of Bohemia marries Frederick V, revolt mounted by Stephano and Trinculo, “unstanched wench”, able to swim like a duck | The Tempest |
| fails to properly praise Rosings, “takes his ladyship’s praise”, Catherine de Bourgh, Longbourn estate, Georgiana, Netherfield Hall, unhappy alternative, Mrs. Reynolds, Mrs. Gardiner, Pemberley, Lady Catherine | Pride and Predjudice |
| “It is a truth universally acknowleged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”, “from this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents”, “In vain I have struggled. It will not do,” William Collins | Pride and Predjudice |
| “nothing will come of nothing”, “where is thy luster now?”, “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!”, disguise as Tom O’Bedlam, Edgar kills Edmund in a duel | King Lear |
| “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks”, Nuncle, “the wheel is come full circle, Nahum Tate, “as flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, Caius, a man pretends to be Poor Tom and kills Oswald | King Lear |
| “Aunt Cora’s patchwork”, Horse slips on ice, St. John Rivers, Mr. Brockelhurst, Lowood School, confined to the “Red Room”, “Resurgam”, Bertha Mason commits arson, Thornfield Hall, Gace Poole, chestnut tree struck by lightning | Jane Eyre |
| Helen Burns, “Reader, I married him”, Gateshead Hall, obeah, Brockelbridge Church, introduced reading a book about British birds, Mr. Lloyd, Blanche Ingram, Mother Bunches, Helen Burns reads Rasselas, dropping a slate, torn veil | Jane Eyre |
| to avoid hell she must “keep in good health, and not die”, claims psalms aren’t interesting, Clara Copperfield, has to wear a sign reading “slattern”, gypsy fortune teller is her future husband in disguise, Miss Cratcherd, Robert Leaven, Maria Temple | Jane Eyre |
| ivory gate of false dreams, King Iarbas, kills seven deer with the bow of Achates, captain Palinurus, Juturna, Amazon Camilla, Turnus, Cumaean Sibyl, Mezentius, Pandarus | The Aeneid |
| Ol' One Shot, Tim Johnson, forced to read to Mrs. Dubose, ham attacked by Bob Ewell from Halloween pageant, Cecil Jacobs, Dolphus Raymond drinks Coke out of a sack, chiffarobe block, Enfield Prison Farm, Walter Cunningham doesn’t have lunch, Heck Tate | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Red, eye-like glow, mule-drivers and mud-diggers, Bill Smithers, tattered man and tall soldier, Jimmie Rogers, “The Veteran”, flag-bearer, 304th regiment, Tom Wilson | Red Badge of Courage |
| Portrait Insepia, Daughter of Fortune, House of the Spirits | Allende |
| TS Eliot. HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME. 5 sections - "the burial of the dead", "the fire sermon", "what the thunder said". | The wasteland |
| Trinidadian. "A bend in the river", "a house for mr. Biswas" Man-Man. | VS naipaul |
| Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Chickamauga, Devil's Dictionary | Ambrose Bierce |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | |
| Matsui Basho | |
| The Necklace | |
| Ee cummings | |
| Aristophanes | |
| Dante Alighieri, Mary's faithful Bernard, Empyrean, city of Dis, Paolo Malatesta | The Divine Comedy |
| Willa Cather. Jim Burden. Black hawk, Nebraska. Wick cutter. Black pianist blind d'arnault. Anton Cuzak. |
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