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102 Cards in this Set
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Johannes Gutenberg |
Father of Printing |
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Francis Bacon |
Father of English essay |
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William Shakespeare |
Bard of Avon |
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William Shakespeare |
Greatest English writer |
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William Shakespeare |
Greatest Sonnet writer |
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Goeffrey Chaucer |
Father of English Literature |
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Geoffrey Chaucer |
The Morning Star of English Literature |
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Edgar Allan Poe |
Father of Horror Stories |
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Edgar Allan Poe |
Father of Detective Stories |
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Guy de Maupassant |
Foremost French short story writer |
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Homer |
Mythical geographer |
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Cicero |
The Greatest Orator |
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Psalms by King David |
The Greatest Lyric Poem |
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Rabindranath Tagore |
First Asian to receive a Nobel Prize in literature |
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Rabindranath Tagore = National Poet Kalidasa = Greatest Poet of India |
The National poet of India |
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Kalidasa |
The Indian Shakespeare |
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Abraham Lincoln |
Who wrote the Gettysburg Address? |
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Boris Pasternak |
Who wrote Dr. Zhivago? |
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Totalitarianism in Russia |
What does Dr. Zhivago talk about? |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Author of Scarlet Letter |
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JK Rowling |
Who is the author of Harry Potter |
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John Milton |
Who is the author of Paradise Lost? |
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Antoine de Saint Exupery |
Who is the author of The Little Prince? |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Who is the author of the Uncle Tom's Cabin? |
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Geoffrey Chaucer |
Who is the author of Canterbury Tales? |
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The Analects |
What book has all the teachings of Confucius? |
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Edgar Allan Poe |
Who wrote the Annabel Lee |
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Edgar Allan Poe |
Who wrote the Raven? |
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Guy de Mapaussant |
Who wrote the story The Necklace? |
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MacBeth |
Which Shakespearean play has the theme on "overwhelming ambition for power"? |
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Hamlet |
To be or not to be--which play? |
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Merchant of Venice "The quality of mercy" is a soliloquy by Portia in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice; it occurs during Act 4, Scene 1, set in a Venetian Court of Justice. ... The speech is regarded as one of the great speeches in Shakespeare, and it is an example of the esteem Shakespeare held for those who showed mercy |
Which Shakespearean play has the prime theme of mercy? |
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Romeo and Juliet |
Which Shakespearean play is about love and war? |
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Gitanjali |
What collection of poems did Rabindranath Tagore write that earned him the Nobel? |
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Devotion and motto: I am here to sing thee songs |
What is the theme and motto of Gitanjali? |
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CS Lewis |
Who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia? |
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Rubaiyat |
What is the famous poem collection by Omar Khayyam? |
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Omar Khayyam |
Who wrote the Rubaiyat? |
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Quatrain |
What does Rubaiyat mean? |
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Carpe Diem |
What is the theme of Rubaiyat? |
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Dante |
Who is the author of Divine Comedy? |
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Gilgamesh |
What's the first epic ever written? |
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Hieroglyphs |
What'sthe Egyptian system of writing? |
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Calligraphy |
What's the Chinese system of writing? |
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Rig Veda |
What do you call to the collection of Indian Sacred Hymns? |
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1001 Arabian Nights |
A collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age |
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Upanishad |
Collection of Indian Sacred Text |
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Mahabharta |
Longest epic of India |
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Panchatantra |
Collection of Indian fables |
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Nibelungenlied |
Medieval German Epic |
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Mark Twain, which is his pen name |
Who is Samuel Langhorne Clemens? |
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Mary Ann Evans |
What is the real name of George Eliot? |
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JK Rowling |
What is the real name of Robert Galbraith? |
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the iliad |
What epic details the last 49 days of the ten-year Trojan War; it gives detailed accounts of the battles waged on the plains of Troy? |
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Homer's the ILIAD has 20 books |
Who's the author of the ILIAD and how many books does it consist? |
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The Odyssey |
What epic talks about the 10 year struggle of a Greek hero in reaching and saving his own kingdom after fighting in the Trojan War? |
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Ulysses or Odysseus & Homer, 26 books |
Who is the main protagonist of the Odyssey and who is its writer and how many books did the story consist? |
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King Odysseus' kingdom is Ithaca |
Kingdom of the main protagonist of The Odyssey |
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Aeneid |
What epic did Virgil write? |
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The Aeneid |
What is the great epic of Rome that tells the story of Aeneas who was able to find a place that later on would be Rome? |
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Beowulf |
What's the oldest epic of England? |
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Heorot |
What kingdom did Beowulf save? |
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The Shah Namah by Firdausi or Abdul Kasim Mausur |
What's the greatest epic of Persia? Who wrote it? |
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The Shah Namah |
What epic tells the struggle of Persia to overthrow her enemies? |
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Nibelungenlied |
What's the greatest epic of Germany? |
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39 parts called adventures |
How many parts does Nibelungenlied have? |
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Nibelungenlied |
What epic tells the story of Siegfried and how he helped King Gunther win his bride? It also talks about the lack of union between rival and kindred tribes. |
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The Song of Roland |
What's the greatest epic of France? |
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The Song of Roland |
What epic tells the story of the Great Struggle of the Christian knights of France under Charlemagne against the moors or the Mohammedans? |
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Cid |
What's the greatest folk epic of Spain? |
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Cid |
What folk epic tells the deeds of the great "Lord" Rodrigo Vivar in his wars with the Moors? |
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The Divine Comedy |
What's the great epic of Italy? |
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Dante |
Who wrote the Divine Comedy? |
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The Divine Comedy |
What epic has the great purpose of saving souls? |
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Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso |
What are the three parts of the Divine Comedy? |
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The earliest known English poem is a hymn on the creation; Bede attributes this to Cædmon (fl. 658–680), who was, according to legend, an illiterate herdsman who produced extemporaneous poetry at a monastery at Whitby. This is generally taken as marking the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry. |
Who wrote the first known English poem? |
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Edgar Allan Poe |
Who is the father of American short story? |
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Chaucer |
Who is the father of English literature? |
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Mark Twain -- Great twentieth-century author Ernest Hemingway claimed all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. He spoke for women's rights and against slavery. This was supported more popularly by William Faulkner.
The other recognized father of American Literature is Washington Irving for being the first American author to gain recognition both in America and Europe, 1700s. |
Who is the father of American literature according to William Faulkner? |
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Shakespeare |
Father of English drama |
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Eugene O'Neill Eugene O'Neill was a famed playwright and his masterpiece, Long Day's Journey into Night (produced posthumously 1957), is at the apex of a long string of great plays, including Beyond the Horizon (1920), Anna Christie (1922), Strange Interlude (1928), Ah! Wilderness (1933) and The Iceman Cometh (1946) |
Father of American Drama |
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Lindley Murray MuRRAy for gRaMmAR MURray-gramMAR MUR-MAR |
Father of English grammar |
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Aeschylus |
Father of tragedy |
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Aristophanes |
Father of Comedy |
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Aristophanes |
Prince of Ancient Comedy |
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William Tyndale Tyndale(Tindill/Tyndill/Tyndall) is considered to be the father of the English prose. He is the first litterateur to translate the Bible from Greek and Hebrew texts to English. His works also inspired Henry VIII to break away from the Roman church and establish an Anglican church |
Father of English Prose |
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Bede |
Father of English History |
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- John Dryden (1631 – 1700) |
Father of English Criticism |
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James Joyce (1882 – 1941) |
Father of English Stream of Conscious Novel |
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Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593)
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Father of English Tragedy - |
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Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) |
Father of English One Act Play - |
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834) and William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)
They were friends and were both LAKE POETS.
Coleridge is famous for Kubla Khan and the Rime of the Ancient Mariner IMAGE: Romance between COLLIEs. |
The TWO Fathers of English Romanticism |
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- Edger Allen Poe (1809 – 1849) |
Father of English Mystery Plays |
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- Homer |
Father of Epic Poetry |
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William Caxton |
Father of English Press - |
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- Henrik Ibsen. |
Father of Modern theater |
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Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' |
the first collection of short stories in English literature |
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William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy |
What's the first novel of American literature? |
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Sully Prudhomme of France |
First Nobel Prize in Literature Winner |
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Peter Handke, Austrian |
Nobel Prize winner in Literature 2019 for "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." |
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Mesopotamia (Iraq) Gilgamesh =(Iraq) a boat. = similar with Iraq a baby for Meme |
Which country is Gilgamesh from? |
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Washington Irving -- Mark Twain was called Father of American Literature by Faulkner. |
Who is considered as the Father of American Literature for he is thought of, for instance, as the first American writer to make his living primarily through his creative work, and he is the first American acclaimed by the English literary establishment as worthy of recognition? |
