Literary Creators and Creations
Brave New World
Who is Aldous Huxley?
A Scottish author of the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth centuries that wrote popular historical novels.
Who is Sir Walter Scott?
The phrase ¨Elementary, My Dear Watson¨ is often attributed to this character.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
Charles Dickens was an author of this century.
What is the nineteenth century?
¨What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet¨ is from this play by William Shakespeare.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
This man wrote about an exotic emperor named Kubla Khan.
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
An English poet of the fourteenth century, called the father of English poetry: he was the first great poet to write in the English language.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
¨Et tu, Brute?¨
Who is Julius Caesar?
He wrote this book about a young orphan who became a pickpocket.
What is Oliver Twist?
This play contains the murder of the king of Denmark.
What is Hamlet?
This man created Lemuel Gulliver.
Who is Jonathon Swift?
He is famous for his intricate metaphors, as in a poem in which he compares two lovers to the two legs of a drawing compass.
Who is John Donne?
¨Godś in Heaven, all is right with the world.¨
The quote ¨It Is A Far, Far Better Thing I Do, Then I Have Ever Done¨ came from this book by Dickens.
What is A Tale of Two Cities?
He murdered his brother for power and then bed the queen.
Who is Claudius?
He wrote ¨Home Is The Sailor, Home From Sea And The Hunter Home From The Hill¨
Who is Robert Louis Stevenson?
He was much concerned with the general emptiness of modern life and with the revitalization of religion.
Who is T.S. Eliot?
¨Neither a borrower nor a lender be.¨
Who is Polonius?
This character is the handicapped son of Bob Cratchit.
Who is Tiny Tim?
It is said Yon Cassius has this kind of look.
What is a Lean and Hungry look?
He dictated Paradise Lost after going blind.
Who is John Milton?
An Irish author of the twentieth century, known for his novels, especially Finnegan's Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses, and for his short stories, especially the collection Dubliners.
Who is James Joyce?
¨Lay on Macduff.¨
Who is Macbeth?
This was the first sentence of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
What is ¨It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times?¨
This was said by Puck, a mischievous fairy.
What is ¨Lord, what fools these mortals be!¨