Ancient Literature
This character guarded the cedar forest where the gods dwelt in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Who is Humbaba?
the Moabite woman who converted to Judaism after refusing to leave her mother-in-law Naomi
Who is Ruth?
The short story tells of a man that is led into the forest to witness a satanic ritual.
What is "Young Goodman Brown"?
Writer of "Six Characters in Search of an Author."
Who is Luigi Pirandello?
Writer of "To Althea, From Prison".
Who is Richard Lovelace?
He wrote the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Who is Vyasa?
the young Jewish woman who finds favor with the king, becomes queen, and risks her life to save the Jewish people from destruction
Who is Esther?
The title refers to an object that a Russian coach driver offered to an aristocratic gentlemen.
What is "The Black Cap" ?
The playwright of "Barefoot in the Park" and "Brighten Beach Memoirs"
Who is Neil Simon ?
the leader of the French poets known as the Pleiade
Who is Pierre de Ronsard?
The longest work of Sanskrit literature containing 200,000 verses.
What is Mahabharata?
The book written by the "weeping prophet" Jeremiah and reflects on the Babylonians destruction of Jerusalem.
What is Lamentations?
Kurt Vonnegut short story featuring Handicapper General, who ensures that all Americans are equally smart, strong, fast and beautiful.
What is "Harrison Bergeron" ?
The dramatist who wrote the Dublin trilogy.
Bonus if you can name all three.
Who is Sean O'Casey ?
The Shadow of a Gunman
Juno and the Paycock
The Plough and the Stars
this type of metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one.
What is anapest?
The oldest surviving work of Japanese literature where the name translates to Records of Ancient Matters.
What is Kojiki?
The biblical book includes the story of Samson and Delilah.
What is the book of Judges?
The writer of the short stories "Diary of a Madman" and "The Overcoat"?
Who is Nikolai Gogol?
The author fictionalized the Sacco and Vanzetti trial in "Winterset" and earned a Pulitzer Prize for the political drama "Both Your House"
Who is Maxwell Anderson?
The elegy written by John Milton.
What is Lycidas?
The cyclops whose cave Odysseus and his men escape from by hanging onto the bellies of sheep
Who is Polyphemus?
The character in ancient Hebrew literature has a counterpart in Greek, Sumerian and Babylonian literature
Who is Noah?
The writer of "Babylon Revisited" about an alcoholic man who tries to regain custody of his child.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald
The play covering the examination of job cuts and racial tensions, did Lynn Nottage win a Pulitzer Prize.
What is "Sweat"?
The American poet who wrote "For the Union Dead" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection "The Lord Weary's Castle"
Who is Robert Lowell?