Abeka 10 grade World Literature Test 12 (Units 1-16 Silas Marner, and Julius Caesar) – Flashcards
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Who wrote the Republic
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Plato
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Homer wrote the Iliad and the ________________
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Odyssey
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Cervantes was a _____________ author
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Spanish
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In which city was Mars' Hill Located
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Athens
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In which city does Antigone take place
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Thebes
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Sir Walter Scott wrote
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Lochinvar
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Who was Brutus's wife
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Portia
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Who was Hectors father
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Priam
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Who wrote Discourse on Method
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Rene Descartes
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The story of Utnapishtim is similar to the real story of
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Noah
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Captain Ahab is a character in which novel
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Moby Dick
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What group of people built the wooden horse
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Greeks
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Queen Dido was queen of
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Carthage
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Who wrote Don Quixote
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Miguel de Cervantes
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John Wycliffe translate the Bible into which language?
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English
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Which of the following symbols is not used in The Republic: tower, cave, or ship?
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tower
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What dominated all areas of life in Europe during the middle ages
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The Roman church
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who symbolized divine revelation in the Divine Comedy
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Beatrice
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Excelsior was written by
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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How long was Odysseus away from his home
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20 years
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Who persuaded Brutus to join the conspiracy agains Caesar
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Cassius
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In what year was William Shakespeare born
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1564
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Robert Browing was from
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England
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Who ran in a footrace during the festival of the Lupercal
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Mark Antony
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Which famous detective is in the Red-headed League
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Sherlock Holmes
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Pyramus love a girl named
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Thisbe
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The Erl-king was written by
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Goethe
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How many metrical feet are in heptameter
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7
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Another name for unrhymed iambic pentameter is
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blank verse
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Hebrew poetry relies on
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cacophony
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Leo Tolstoy is of what nationality
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Russian
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Whom did Eppie Marner marry
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Aaron Winthrop
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Paul condemned the Greeks because of their
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pagan religion
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Who was Antigones's father
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Oedipus
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Who wrote "The Death of a Hired Man"
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Robert Frost
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When was Julius Caesar assassinated
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March 15
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What kind of animal was Argos
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dog
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Don Quixote definitely believed in
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chivalry
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Who Wrote Pilgrims Progress
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John Bunyan
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Initial consonant or vowel sounds are the same in ____________.
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Alliteration
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two rhyming lines
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Couplet
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Soft, smooth, pleasant sound
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Euphone
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the central idea
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theme
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regular recurrence of sound
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rhythm
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truth expressed in the form of an apparent contradictin
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paradox
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human qualities given to inanimate objects
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personification
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ridicule of human folly or vice
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satire
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point of highest intensity
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climax
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"he is given/To sports, to wildness, and much company."
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Mark Antony
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"and the boy...left his father, Soared higher, ...the wax that held the wings melted."
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Icarus
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Robert Frost wrote which story?
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The Road not Taken
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John Foxe wrote what?
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Foxe's Book of Martyrs
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Who wrote The Great Stone Face?
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Dante wrote what?
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The Entrance to Hell
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Who wrote Silas Marner?
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George Eliot
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Leo Tolstoy wrote what?
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What Men Live By
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John Bunyan wrote what?
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Pilgrims Progress
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John Milton wrote which classic novel?
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Paradise Lost
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Who wrote The Tell Tale Heart?
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Jack London wrote which novel?
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The Call of the Wild
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What did Katherine Mansfield write?
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The Garden Party
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Robert Browning wrote what?
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
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What was the name of Shakespeare theater
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The Globe
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Who was Alexander the Greats teacher
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Aristotle
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Who Said, "Et tu, Brute?"
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Caesar
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Who Said, "Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razed me; made me poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day"?
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Captain Ahab
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Pearls Buck's parents were missionaries to what country?
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China
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Antonie de Saint-Exupery was lost where?
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Sahara Desert
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William Law greatly influenced what famous brothers?
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John and Charles Wesley
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Who said, "I think therefore I am."
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Rene Descartes
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What is a light, humors play that ends happily?
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Comedy
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The Kon Tiki traveled on which ocean
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Pacific
