Authors
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
In what city does Antigone take place?
Thebes
Who was Brutus's wife?
Portia
How long was Odysseus away from his home?
20 years
How many metrical feet are in heptameter?
7
Who wrote "Lochinvar"?
Sir Walter Scott
In which city was Mars' Hill located?
Athens
The story of Utnapishtim is similar to the real story of what?
Noah
When was Julius Caesar assassinated?
March 15
Another name for unrhymed iambic pentamter is?
blank verse
"Excelsior" was written by whom?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who said, "How can I rest, how can I be at peace? Despair is in my heart. What my brother is now, that shall I be when I am dead"?
Gilgamesh
Who persuaded Brutus to join the conspiracy against Caesar?
Cassius
What group of people built the wooden horse?
Greeks
Hebrew poetry relies, not on rhyme, but on what?
Parallelism
Who wrote "The Death of the Hired Man"?
Robert Frost
Who is described in the quote, "as for her own person, it gave the same video of perfect unvarying neatness a the body of a little bird"?
Nancy Lammeter
Which famous detective is in "The Red-headed League"?
Sherlock Holmes
The Kon-Tiki traveled on which ocean?
Pacific Ocean
What is it called when the initial consonant or vowel sounds are the same?
alliteration
In what year was William Shakespeare born?
1564
Who is described in the quote, "The eldest, a fine open-faced good-natured young man who was to come into the land some day"?
Whom did Eppie Marner marry?
Aaron Winthrop
Marc Antony ran in a footrace during what festival?
festival of the Lupercal
What is it when there are soft, smooth, pleasant sounds?
euphony