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Cult. Lit. Again
Novels
Who Am I?
It's That Hard!
Everything BUT the Kitchen Sink
100
He wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land"
What is T.S. Eliot
100
"Something will turn up"
What is David Copperfield
100
I have jet black hair, sickly yellow skin, and I'm extremely tall in stature
What is the creature
100
In Heart of Darkness Marlow first learns about Kurtz from the ________.
What is Chief Accountant
100
a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization
What is Romanticism
200
Written by John Stuart Mill about the liberal idea of political freedom
What is On Liberty
200
"War is peace, Freedom is slavery; Ignorance is strength"
What is 1984
200
'Exterminate all the brutes!'"
What is Kurtz
200
Who speaks the first line of the play in Hamlet?
What is Barnardo
200
What literary device: "Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in public and private life, have been the consequences of action without thought."
What is anaphora
300
Any serious depression or discouragement
What is slough of despond
300
"We said there warn't no home like a raft after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft."
What is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
300
"If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children-?"
What is Douglas
300
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer each received ________ dollars when they found money that the robbers had hidden in the cave:
What is 6,000 dollars
300
Sherlock Holmes and Watson are examples of what (literary term)
What is foil
400
"But it my back I always hear/ Time's winged chariot is hurrying near"
What is To His Coy Mistress
400
"How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his natives will allow"
What is Frankenstein
400
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
What is Mr. Micawber
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Fill in the blanks, they're the same word: "You can blast my other passions, but ______ remains—_______, henceforth dearer than light of food!"
What is revenge
400
What literary term: "You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."
What is Zeugma
500
He wrote Tom Jones and Joseph Andres
What is Henry Fielding
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: "You're a gentleman" they used to say to him, "you shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet, that's no occupation for a gentleman"
What is Crime and Punishment
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: "The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted. Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behavior. Murder kills only the individual-and, after all, what is an individual?... We can make a new one with the greatest ease-as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself."
What is The Director
500
Who said this ""Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."
What is Mustapha Mond
500
being fairly new in existence
What is nascent