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Mrs. Hawkins - 10th Grade Literature
Literature Test 12 Study Guide
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Literature
10th Grade
05/21/2013

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Who was Alexander the Great's teacher?
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Aristotle
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Said, "Et tu, Brute?"
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Caesar
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Got lost in the Sahara Desert
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Greatly influenced John and Charles Wesley
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William Law
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Said, "I think, therefore I am."
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Descartes
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Wrote The Book of Martyrs
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John Foxe
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Wrote The Call of the Wild
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Jack London
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Wrote "The Entrance to Hell"
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Dante
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Wrote "The Tell-Tale Heart"
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Wrote Paradise Lost
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John Milton
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Wrote Pilgrim's Progress
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John Bunyon
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Write Silas Marner
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George Eliot
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Wrote The Republic
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Plato
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Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
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Homer
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Wrote "Lochinvar"
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Sir Walter Scott
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Persuaded Brutus to join the conspiracy against Caesar
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Cassius
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Spend twent years away from home
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Odysseus
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Wrote "Excelsoir"
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Was Brutus's wife
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Portia
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Was Hector's father
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King Priam
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Wrote Discourse on Method
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Descartes

"I think, therefore I am."

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Symbolized divine revelation in The Divine Comedy
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Beatrice
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Ran in a race during the festival of the Lupercal
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Antony
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The famous detective in "The Red-headed League"
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Sherlock Holmes
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Pyramus loved her
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Thisbe
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Wrote "The Erl-king"
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Goethe
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Married Eppie Marner
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Aaron Winthrop
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Condemned the Greeks because of their pagan religion
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Paul (Mars Hill/Athens)
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Antigone's father
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Oedipus
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Write "The Death of the Hired Man"
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Robert Frost
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Odysseus's dog
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Argos
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The group of people who built the wooden horse
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Greeks
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Queen of Carthage
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Dido
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Fooled her suitors for three years by picking out her embroidery stitches
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Penelope
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Translated Bible into English
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John Wycliff (from Latin to English)
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Where was Cervantes from?
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Spain

Don Quixote (chivalry)

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Where did Antigone take place?
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Thebes
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Where was Robert Browning from?
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England
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Where was Leo Tolstoy from?
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Russia
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Where did Pearl Buck's parents serve as missionaries and she grow up as a child?
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China
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Which ocean did the Kon-Tiki travel on?
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Pacific (South)
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theme
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the central idea
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satire
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ridicule of human folly with hope of correction
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rhythm
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regular recurrence of sound
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personification
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human qualities given to inanimate objects
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paradox
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truth expressed in the form of an apparent contradiction
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euphony
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soft, smooth, pleasant sounds
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alliteration
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initial consonant sounds are the same
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couplet
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2 rhyming lines
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cacophony
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harsh sounds
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climax
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point of greatest interest
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still life
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arrangement of inanimate objects in a painting
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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parallelism
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the construction of 2 or more thoughts in the same pattern
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Know the difference in a comedy and a tragedy.
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Shakespeare
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Born 1564 in Stratford, England.

Died 1616.

Performed in his own theater, The Globe.

Wrote Julius Caesar.

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