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India
The American Dream and Nightmare
Go Green
Shakespeare
On Beauty
100
Author of "The White Man's Burden" and "The Jungle Book" (among other things)
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
100
The national anthem of the United States of America
What is "The Star Spangled banner"?
100
SHe wrote "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus"
Who is Mary Shelley?
100
the genre of ROmeo and Juliet
What is tragedy?
100
It was some foul13 parody, some infamous ignoble satire. He had never done that. Still, it was his own picture. He knew it, and he felt as if his blood had changed in a moment from fire to sluggish14 ice. His own picture! What did it mean? Why had it altered?
What is "The Picture of DOrian Grey"?
200
the name of the short story about the strange and forbidden love between Prema and Keshav
What is "A Coward"?
200
A document in the United States history proclaiming the self-government of the 13 original colonies
What is The Declaration of Independence?
200
Prometheus was found guilty of this particular crime and sentenced to spend eternity having his liver picked at by eagles
What is stealing fire from the gods?
200
The number of the sonnet that begins with"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"?
What is 18?
200
Author of "The Birthmark"
Who was Nathaniel Hawthorne?
300
The year India gained its independence
What is 1947?
300
This part of the U.S. Constitution deals with the right to bear arms
What is the 2nd Amendment?
300
the study of Nature or natural things in literature; any theory that is committed to effecting change by analyzing the function-thematic, artistic, social, historical, ideological, theoretical, or otherwise-of the natural environment, or aspects of it, represented in documents (literary or other) that contribute to material practices in material worlds
What is eco-criticism?
300
The two people Shakespeare dedicated/wrote his sonnets to/about?
Who are The Dark Lady and the young man/poet?
300
"transport" (ekstasis), "shatters the hearer's composure", "domination", "delightful horror", "loftiness of thought" and "strong and inspired passion."
What is the Sublime?
400
The policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is Imperialism?
400
At the end of this "walk", Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speech
What is the march on Washington?
400
The meter used in William Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
What is Iambic Pentameter?
400
the literary period in which Shakespeare wrote
What is the Renaissance?
400
Beauty is truth, truth beauty ,—that is all. Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. (John Keats)
What is "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?
500
The process of cultivating rural areas and turning them into modern cities, as seen in "Slumdog Millionaire"
What is Industrialization?
500
This person wrote "The United States of BOO" criticising the way the US government handled things after 9/11
Who is Michael Moore?
500
the author of "to build a fire"
Who is Jack London?
500
the idea that the sun is at the center of the universe
What is heliocentric (wordview)?
500
The philosophy dealing with beauty, the creation and appreciation of beauty (especially connected to art)
What are Aesthetics?