A Tale of Two Cities
The author of A Tale of Two Cities.
Who is Charles Dickens?
Shakespeare’s profession
What is a playwright?
Type of poetry that is a “little song.”
What is a sonnet?
Ovid’s most famous poem.
What is Metamorphoses?
Major historical event during which the novel is set.
What is the French Revolution?
Play about three witches, a “forest”, and Scottish general who murders his way to the throne.
What is Macbeth?
A poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
What is a haiku?
Culture in which Ovid lived.
What is Ancient Rome?
The recurring symbol for ”blood” throughout the novel.
What is wine?
Ruler during Shakespeare’s lifetime.
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
Author of “Fame is a Bee.”
Who is Emily Dickinson?
Story that inspired Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and made a comical cameo in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
What is Pyramus and Thisbe?
The opening line of the novel.
Style of verse that Shakespeare wrote his plays in.
What is iambic pentameter?
Name 3 Romantic Era poets.
Who is: Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Keats?
How Deucalion and Pyrrha are instruction to repopulate the earth after Zeus sends a flood, and what biblical characters they imitate.
The last line in the novel, and the name of the character speaking.
What is, “It is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
Who is Sydney Carton?
Play which this line is from:
”To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause—there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life.”
What is Hamlet?
Poem that begins:
”I met a traveler from an antique land…”
What is Ozymandias?
The story about Phaeton.
What is Phaeton discovering he is the son of the sun, and asks to ride his father’s chariot, and dies while destroying the earth with fire because he is not powerful enough to drive it?