British Literature
This 1847 Emily Brontë novel features the tumultuous relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and the brooding Heathcliff.
What is Wuthering Heights?
"Fair Verona, where we lay our scene."
What is Romeo and Juliet?
This author’s 1851 masterpiece was dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne and centers on a vengeful captain named Ahab.
Who is Herman Melville?
Mary Ann Evans used this male pen name to ensure her works, like Middlemarch, were taken seriously.
Who is George Eliot?
This is a figure of speech that makes a comparison using the words "like" or "as."
What is a Simile?
In Great Expectations, this jilted bride-to-be lives in the decaying Satis House, still wearing her yellowed wedding dress.
Who is Miss Havisham?
Elsinore Castle in Denmark.
What is Hamlet?
Known for his lean, "Iceberg Theory" prose, he wrote about the "Lost Generation" in The Sun Also Rises.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
Eric Blair used this "river-inspired" pseudonym to write Animal Farm and Down and Out in Paris and London.
Who is George Orwell?
This 7-letter term refers to a poem of 14 lines, typically using iambic pentameter.
What is a Sonnet?
This 1759 satirical novella by Voltaire follows the optimistic protagonist and his tutor, Dr. Pangloss.
What is Candide?
The Forest of Arden, where Rosalind flees in disguise.
What is As You Like It?
This Southern Gothic author wrote about the fictional Yoknapatawpha County in novels like The Sound and the Fury.
Who is William Faulkner?
The sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne used these three "Bell" surnames to publish their early poetry.
What are Currer, Ellis, and Acton?
From the Greek for "cleansing," this term describes the emotional release an audience feels at the end of a tragedy.
What is Catharsis?
This Anglo-Saxon epic poem, preserved in the Nowell Codex, tells of a hero who defeats the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother.
What is Beowulf?
The island of Cyprus, where a certain Moorish general is sent to command.
What is Othello?
Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he took his pen name from a riverboat term meaning "two fathoms deep."
Who is Mark Twain?
Under the name Robert Galbraith, this famous billionaire author writes the Cormoran Strike detective series.
Who is J.K. Rowling?
A "Roman à _____" is a novel in which real people or events appear with invented names.
What is Clef?
He was the first Poet Laureate of England, appointed in 1668, but is perhaps better known for his satirical poem Mac Flecknoe.
Who is John Dryden?
A ship at sea, followed by an uninhabited island somewhere between Tunis and Naples.
What is The Tempest?
This Gilded Age author of The Age of Innocence was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Who is Edith Wharton?
This 19th-century French author of The Red and the Black was born Marie-Henri Beyle.
Who is Stendhal?
This narrative technique, championed by James Joyce, attempts to replicate the chaotic, unedited flow of human thought.
What is Stream of Consciousness?