ABEKA WORLD LITERATURE TEST 12 – Flashcards
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wrote ~The Republic~
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Plato
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Homer wrote the ~Iliad~ and ____
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~Odyssey~
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Cervantes was a(n) _____ author
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Spanish
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in which city was Mars' Hill?
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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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Brutus's wife
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Portia
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Hector's father
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Priam
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wrote ~Discourse on Method~
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René Descartes
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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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dominated all areas of life in Europe during the Middle Ages
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the Roman Church
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symbolized divine revelation in ~Divine Comedy~
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Beatrice
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how long was Odysseus away from home?
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twenty years
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persuaded Brutus to join the conspiracy against Caesar
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Cassius
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in what year was William Shakespeare?
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1564
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Robert Browning was from where?
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England
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wrote ~Antigone~
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Sophocles
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ran in a footrace during the festival of the Lupercal
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Antony
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Pyramus loved a girl named ___
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Thisbe
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how many metrical feet are in a heptameter?
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7
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another name for unrhymed iambic pentameter
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blank verse
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Hebrew poetry relies on ____
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parallelism
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Leo Tolstoy is of what nationality?
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Russian
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Paul condemned the Greeks because of their _____
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pagan religion
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Antigene's father
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Oedipus
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wrote "The Death of the 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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wrote ~Pilgrim's Progress~
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John Bunyan
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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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wrote ~Don Quixote~
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Miguel de Cervantes
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John Wycliffe translated the Bible into what language?
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English
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Some examples used in ~The Republic~?
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cave and a ship
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initial consonant or vowel sounds are the same
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alliteration
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two rhyming lines
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couplet
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soft, smooth, pleasant sounds
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euphony
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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 contradiction
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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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"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"
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Gilgamesh
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"I am an enemy to this Prince; I hate His person, His laws, and people"
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Apollyon
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"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"
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Penelope
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"the noblest Roman of them all"
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Brutus
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"you yourself/are much condemned to have an itching palm"
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Cassius
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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,...and the wax that held the wings melted"
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Icarus
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~The Book of Martyrs~
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John Foxe
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"The Entrance to Hell"
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Dante
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~Pilgrim's Progess~
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John Bunyan
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~Paradise Lost~
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John Milton
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~Call of the Wild~
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Jack London
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"The Garden-Party"
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Katherine Mansfield
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Shakespeare's theater
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the Globe
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Alexander the Great's teacher
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Aristotle
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"Et tu, Brute!"
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Caesar
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"aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!"
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Captain Ahab
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Pearl's Buck's parents were missionaries to what country country?
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China
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the ~Kon-Tiki~ traveled on which ocean?
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Pacific
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 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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"I think, therefore, I am?"
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Rene Descartes
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light, humorous play that ends happily?
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comedy
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introduces adverb
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clauses, subordinate conjunctions
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uses only short, simple sentences
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choppy
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tells what part of speech a word is
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function
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when every sentence supports the topic sentence
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unity
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always ends in -ing
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gerund
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to find information about places mentioned in Old Testament
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Bible dictionary
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used as a noun, adjective, and adverb
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infinitive
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states a fact
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indicative mood
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the subject is being acted upon
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passive
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present perfect
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has been given
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the origin of the word
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etymology
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future perfect
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will have gone
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always plural
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both
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follows a linking verb and renames or explains the subject
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predicate nominative
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used for subjects and predicate nominatives
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nominative case
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indicates continuing action
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progressive case
