Authors
Shakespeare
Classical Literature
100
Most known for his stream of consciousness writing style. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. Born in Oxford, Mississippi
Who is William Faulkner?
100
Shakespeare's plays are commonly placed into 3 categories: comedies, tragedies, and these.
What is histories?
100
The father of all Roman people and the main character in the Aeneid.
Who is Aeneas?
200
First female writer in the U.S. Writer's Hall of Fame?
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
The majority of Shakespeare's work are written in this meter.
What is iambic pentameter?
200
Daughter of Oedipus. She tries to bury her brother Polynices, even though it is seen as treason.
Who is Antigone?
300
His novel, Invisible Man, has a nameless main character.
Who is Ralph Ellison?
300
King Lear's favorite daughter. She is also the youngest.
Who is Cordelia?
300
Dante's great love in the Divine Comedy.
Who is Beatrice?
400
He is the main character in his poem about travelling through the realms of the afterlife.
Who is Dante Alighieri ?
400
Appeared in a Midsummer's Night Dream. His head was turned into a donkey's.
Who is Bottom?
400
In book one of the Iliad, he is described as being enraged.
Who is Achilles?
500
His pen name was Boz
Who is Charles Dickens?
500
This monarch ruled over England for most of Shakespeare's life.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
500
The first person Odysseus meets in the Land of the Dead. He begs Odysseus to give his body a proper burial.
Who is Elpenor?
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