Abeka World Literature Test 12 (FINAL EXAM) – Flashcards
Flashcard maker : Christine Brunetti
Plato
wrote ~The Republic~
~Odyssey~
Homer wrote the ~Iliad~ and ____
Spanish
Cervantes was a(n) _____ author
Athens
in which city was Mars’ Hill?
Thebes
in which city does ~Antigone~ take place?
“Lochinvar”
Sir Walter Scott wrote this
Portia
Brutus’s wife
Priam
Hector’s father
René Descartes
wrote ~Discourse on Method~
Noah
story of Utnapishtim is similar to the real story of _____
~Moby Dick~
Captain Ahab is a character in which novel?
the Roman Church
dominated all areas of life in Europe during the Middle Ages
Beatrice
symbolized divine revelation in ~Divine Comedy~
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
wrote “Excelsior”
twenty years
how long was Odysseus away from home?
Cassius
persuaded Brutus to join the conspiracy against Caesar
1564
in what year was William Shakespeare?
England
Robert Browning was from where?
Sophocles
wrote ~Antigone~
Antony
ran in a footrace during the festival of the Lupercal
Sherlock Holmes
famous detective in “The Red-headed League”
Thisbe
Pyramus loved a girl named ___
Goethe
wrote “The Erl-king”
7
how many metrical feet are in a heptameter?
blank verse
another name for unrhymed iambic pentameter
parallelism
Hebrew poetry relies non on rhyme but on ____
Russian
Leo Tolstoy is of what nationality?
Aaron Winthrop
Eppie Marner’s husband
pagan religion
Paul condemned the Greeks because of their _____
Oedipus
Antigene’s father
Robert Frost
wrote “The Death of the Hired Man”
March 15
when was Julius Caesar assassinated?
dog
what kind of animal was Argos?
chivalry
Don Quixote definitely believed in ____
John Bunyan
wrote ~Pilgrim’s Progress~
Greeks
built the wooden horse
Carthage
Queen Dido was queen of ____
Miguel de Cervantes
wrote ~Don Quixote~
English
John Wycliffe translated the Bible into what language?
tower
which of the following are NOT used in ~The Republic~?
alliteration
initial consonant or vowel sounds are the same
couplet
two rhyming lines
euphony
soft, smooth, pleasant sounds
theme
central idea
rhythm
regular recurrence of sound
paradox
truth expressed in the form of an apparent contradiction
personification
human qualities given to inanimate objects
satire
ridicule of human folly or vice
climax
point of highest intensity
Gilgamesh
“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”
Apollyon
“I am an enemy to this Prince; I hate His person, His laws, and people”
Penelope
“I used to keep working at my great web all day long, but at night I would unpick the stitches. …I fooled them in this way for three years”
Alexander
“boys, my father will get everything before we can and leave nothing big and brilliant for me, to show what we can do!”
Nancy Lammeter
“as for her own person, it gave the same idea of perfect unvarying neatness as the body of a little bird”
Godfrey Cass
“the eldest, a fine open-faced good-natured young man who was to come into the land some day”
Eppie Marner
“a blonde dimpled girl of eighteen who has vainly tried to chastise her curly auburn hair”
Brutus
“the noblest Roman of them all”
Cassius
“you yourself/are much condemned to have an itching palm”
Mark Antony
“he is given/to sports, to wildness, and much company”
Icarus
“and the boy…left his father, soared higher,…and the wax that held the wings melted”
Robert Frost
“The Road Not Taken”
John Fixe
~The Book of Martyrs~
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The Great Stone Face”
Dante
“The Entrance to Hell”
George Eliot
~Silas Marner~
Leo Tolstoy
“What Men Live By”
John Bunyan
~Pilgrim’s Progess~
John Milton
~Paradise Lost~
Edgar Allen Poe
“The Tell-Tale Heart”
Jack London
~Call of the Wild~
Katherine Mansfield
“The Garden-Party”
Robert Browning
“The Pied Piper of Hamelin”
the Globe
Shakespeare’s theater
Aristotle
Alexander the Great’s teacher
Caesar
“Et tu, Brute!”
Captain Ahab
“aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!”
China
Pearl’s Buck’s parents were missionaries to what country country?
Pacific
the ~Kon-Tiki~ traveled on which ocean?
Sahara Desert
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was lost where?
John and Charles Wesley
William Law greatly influenced what famous brothers?
Ron Descartes
“I think, therefore, I am?”
comedy
light, humorous play that ends happily?
