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AHS Literature
AHS QB Literature
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Name of the castle where Hamlet takes place | Elsinore |
| Country where Macbeth takes place | Scotland |
| City where Shylock makes his loans | Venice |
| Country which is the main setting for Hamlet | Denmark |
| The title character runs off with Jim, a runaway slave, on a wild trip down the Mississippi River | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Edward VI and Tom Canty switch places in this work | The Prince and the Pauper |
| Hank Morgan, the title character, meets up with Lancelot, Merlin, and others in this novel | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| Daniel Webster plays the title role in this short story about losing a race in California | The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County |
| Novel-As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner |
| Novel- Death, Be Not Proud | John Gunther |
| Poem-Death, Be Not Proud | John Donne |
| Novel-The Naked and the Dead | Norman Mailer |
| Poem-The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner | Randall Jarrell |
| Poem-I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died | Emily Dickinson |
| Novel- A Day No Pigs Would Die | Robert Newton Peck |
| Short Story-The Death of Ivan Ilyich | Leo Tolstoy |
| Novel-Death in Venice | Thomas Mann |
| Play-Murder by Death | Neil Simon |
| Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather |
| Duncan, MacDuff, 3 witches | MacBeth |
| Casca, Cicero, Cassius | Julius Caesar |
| Casio, Iago, Barbantio | Othello |
| Alonso, Sebastian, Prospero | The Tempest |
| Count Paris, Friar Laurence, Prince Escalus | Romeo and Juliet |
| Duke of Norfolk, Cardinal Wolsey, Cranmer | Henry VIII |
| Katherine, Petruchio, Vincentio | Taming of the Shrew |
| Goneril, Regan, Cordelia | King Lear |
| Archidamus, Florizel, Leontes | The Winter's Tale |
| Shallow, Fenton, Sir John Falstaff | The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| Helena, Diana, Bertram | All's Well That Ends Well |
| Polonius, Laertes, Ophelia | Hamlet |
| Alfonso, Sebastian, Prospero | The Tempest |
| Octavius, Caesar, Lepidus, Sextus Pompeius | Antony and Cleopatra |
| Thesus, Lysander, Bottom | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Duke Orsino, Antonio, Malvolio | Twelfth Night |
| Bertram, Lafeu, Parolles | All's Well That Ends Well |
| Ferdinand, King of Navarre; Holofernes | Love's Labours Lost |
| Baptista, Lucentio, Petruchio, Bianca | Taming of the Shrew |
| Leontes, Mamillius, Polixenes | The Winter's Tale |
| Bathazar, Angelo, Pinch | A comedy of Errors |
| _____ and the King of Slam by Margaret Landon | Anna |
| _____ of Cancer by Henry Miller | Tropic |
| _____ of the Grotesque and Arabesque by Edgar Allan Poe | Tales |
| _____ from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy | Far |
| _____ Nickleby by Charles Dickens | Nicholas |
| _____ of Eden by John Steinbeck | East |
| _____ Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare | Much |
| _____ Liasons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | Dangerous |
| _____ Abbey by Jane Austen | Northanger |
| _____ and Dreamscapes by Stephen King | Nightmares |
| _____ in the Sky by Issac Asimov | Peeble |
| Trees | Joyce Kilmer |
| John Brown's Body | Stephen Vincent Benet |
| Spoon River Anthology | Edgar Lee Masters |
| Richard Cory | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| Longfellow's most famous work tells of the midnight ride of what American patriot? | Paul Revere |
| "By the stories of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water" is how this poem begins | Song of Hiawatha |
| The title woman of this work was seperated from her love Gabriel, whom she later finds | Evangeline |
| The title character of this work stands "Under a spreading chestnut tree" | The Village Blacksmith |
| Identify this character from Animal Farm: Inspired by the Soviet paper Pravda, this pig is the public speaker and apologist for Napoleon's actions. | Squealer |
| Identify this character from Animal Farm: Representing Trotsky, this pig fights Napoleon for controls but loses and is chased away by the dogs. | Snowball |
| Identify this character from Animal Farm: the original owner of Manor Farm, possibly representing Nicholas II | Mr. Jones |
| Identify this cahracter from Animal farm: Strong and loyal, this draft horse represents the proletariat and is ultimately destroyed | Boxer |
| The title bird of this poem mysteriously speaks to a distraught lover. | The Raven |
| Although sad, the narrator believes he will reunite with his love, the title character of this poem. | Annabel Lee |
| In pursuit of a rare sherry Montresor chains Fortunato to a wall of a cave and seals the doorway. | The Cask of Amontillado |
| The title object of this C. Auguste Dupin mystery is found sittng on the blackmailer's desk. | The Purloined Letter |
| This is the basic metrical unit of a poem | foot |
| This type of duple meter is a weak syllable followed by a strong. | lamb (ic) |
| This type of duple meter is a strong followed by a weak | trochee troche(ic) |
| This triple meter starts with a strong syllable | Dactyl (ic) |
| This triple meter ends with a strong syllable | Anapest (ic) |
| Poet of A Further Range, 1937 | Robert Frost |
| Poet of Now and Then, 1979 | Robert Penn Warren |
| Poet of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, 1976 | John Ashbery |
| Poet of Conquistador, 1933 | Archibald MacLeish |
| Poet of Live or Die, 1967 | Anne Sexton |
| Poet of The Waking, 1954 | Theodore Roethke |
| Poet of The Age of Anxiety, 1948 | Wystan Hugh Auden |
| Poet of The Man Who Died Twice, 1925 | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| Poet of A Witness Tree, 1943 | Robert Frost |
| Poet of A Miscellany, among others, 1923, 1922 | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Poet of Annie Allen, 1950 | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Who was the author of Orwell's Animal Farm? | George Orwell |
| Prize-winning boar who first dreams of an animal utopia. | Major |
| Name of the famr that becomes Animal Farm | Manor Farm |
| Last name of the farmer who is overthrown by the animals | Mr. Jones |
| Pig who parallels Joseph Stalin | Napolean |
| Cart-horse who is taken to the knackers | Boxer |
| Name of the battle wher ethe animals defeat their old master | Battle of the Cowshead |
| Pig responsible for spreading propaganda. | Squealer |
| Name of the paradise Moses the raven claims good animals will go to when they die. | Sugarcandy Mountain |
| Pig who parallels Leon Trotsky | Snowball |
| Last remaining principle inscribed on the barn at the en of the novel | All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| 1984 | George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) |
| Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
| Name the Pulitzer Prize Author: All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| Name the Pulitzer Prize Author: Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Name the Pulitzer Prize Author: Foreign Affairs | Alison Lurie |
| Name the Pulitzer Prize Author: Lonesome McMurty | Larry McMurty |
| Infra- | Below and lower than |
| Contra- | Against |
| Retro- | Backward, Back or reversing a trend |
| Ante- (spell out) | Before |
| "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." | John Keats |
| "God's in heaven-all's right with the world." | Robert Browning |
| "No man is an island." | John Donne |
| "One if by land, two if by sea." | Henry Longfellow |
| "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" | Robert Herrick |
| "I have nothing to offer, but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." | Winston Churchill |
| "East is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet." | Rudyard Kipling |
| "Good fences make good neighbors." | Robert Frost |
| "The paths of glory lead but to the grave." | Thomas Grey |
| "They also serve who only stand and wait." | John Milton |
| "Water,water, everywhere nor any drop to drink." | Samuel Coleridge |
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