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11th Grade
12/13/2012

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Term
Sophocles
Definition
lands sacred to the Furies
Philoctetes
Ajax
a trilogy of Theban plays that ends at Colonus
The Tracking Saytrs
Ismene refuses to help her sister
author of Electra
who kills Laius at a crossroads
The Trachiniae
Antigone
Oedipus Rex
One work by this author sees Hyllus harshly attacking Deianeira
Term
Rudyard Kipling
Definition
"The Wish House"
"We're Here"
Harvey Cheyne
"Kim"
"If"
"The White Man's Burden"
"You're a better man than I am"
"Gunga Din"
"The Jungle Book"
"When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouth"
"The Ballad of East and West"
"The Man Who Would Be King"
Term
Aristophanes
Definition
The Frying Pan Men
Mnesilochus
"Brekekekex Koax Koax"
Athenian Old Comedian
Lysistrata
the Thinkery
woman withhold sex from their husbands to end the Peloponnesian War
The Clouds
The Knights
The Wasps
Dionysus judging a contest between Aeschylus and Euripides in Hades
The Frogs
Cloudcuckooland
The Birds
Trygaeus flies to Mount Olympus o a dung beetle
Charcoal burners, Acharnians
The Peace
Term
Chinua Achebe
Definition
"Civil Peace"
Kangan
Anthills of the Savannah
No Longer at Ease
Things Fall Apart
character staples people hands
Captain Winterbottom
Ezeulu
Umofia
Arrow of God
Term
John Milton
Definition
Areopagitica
"When I Consider How My Light is Spent"
Lycidas
Paradise Lost
Penseroso
He was blind
Edward King
Comus
Term
Salman Rushdie
Definition
Saleem Sinai
India independence
Midnight's Children
earned a fatwa from Ayatollah Khomeini
The Satanic Verses
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Shame
Gibreel Farishta
Saladin Chamcha
Fury
The Moor's Last Sigh
Parvati the Witch
Term
Thornton Wilder
Definition
Antrobus family
coming of an ice age
George and Emily
Grover's Corner
The Skin of Our Teeth
Our Town
Theophilus North
maid Sabina
Brother Juniper
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Ides of March
Marquesa de MonteMayor
Uncle Pio
Term
Henrik Ibsen
Definition
Arnold Rubek and Irene von Satow die in an avalanche
When We Dead Awaken
The Wild Duck
Hjalmar Ekdal
Torvald
A Doll's House
Doctor Stockmann
Warning about contaminated water/baths
the Pillars of Society
An Enemy of the People
Hedda Gabler
Little Eyolf
"Ghosts"
The Master Builder
Term
Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
Definition
"The Cross of Snow"
Evangeline
Minnehaha
The Song of Hiawatha
Paul Revere's Ride
Gabriel Lajeunesse
The Village Blacksmith
"spreading chestnut tree"
"The Courtship of Miles Standish"
"The Jewish Cemetery at Newport"
"A Psalm of Life"
Priscilla Mullins
Term
Walt Whitman
Definition
"A Noiseless Patient Spider"
Poem about Lincolns death
"O Captain, My Captain!"
Leave of Grass
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself"
"Song of Myself"
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
Term
Erich Remarque
Definition
The Night in Lisbon
The Black Obelisk
Heaven Has No Favorites
Himmelstoss
Kemmerick
Muller
The Road Back
All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul Baumer
A Time to Love and A Time to Die
Term
Vladimir Nabokov
Definition
The Gift
Cincinnatus C.
Invitation to a Beheading
Charles Kinbote's commentary on a 999-line poem by John Shade
Pale Fire
Humbert Humbert
Dolores Haze
Lolita
Speak Memory
Term
Samuel Johnson
Definition
"Metaphysical Poetry"
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
Taxation No Tyranny
Biography by James Boswell
Dictionary of the English Language
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life"
"The Vanity of Human Wishes"
Term
Thomas Mann
Definition
Serenus Zeitblom narrates the life of Adrian Leverkuhn
Doctor Faustus
Gustav von Aschenbach
Polish boy Tadzio
Settembrini, Claudia Chauchat, and Hans Castorp
Death In Venice
The Magic Mountain
Mario and the Magician
Buddenbrooks
hypnotist Cipolla
Term
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Definition
John Robertson, who returns from Tibet to an America
Moving the Mountain
The Forerunner
Herland
"The Yellow Wallpaper"
Jeff, Van, and Terry experience life in a feminist utopia
Weir Mitchell
"rest cure"
Term
Sinclair Lewis
Definition
Buzz Windrip
It Can't Happen Here
Carol Kenicott
Gopher Prairie
Main Street
Elmer Gantry
Zenith
Babbitt
The Job
Arrowsmith
Revelation Automobile Company
Winnemac
Kingsblood Royal
Term
Leo Tolstoy
Definition
The Death of Ivan Ilych
War and Peace
Servant Gerasim
The Kreutzer Sonata
Anna Karenina
"Alyosha the Pot"
"How Much Land Does a Man Need?"
The Cossacks
Term
Mary Shelley
Definition
The Last Man
Frankenstein
Term
Victor Hugo
Definition
Gilliatt attempts to save the ship Durande
The Toilers of the Sea
Cosette
Inspecter Javert
Quasimodo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Pierre Gringoire
Les Miserables
Cromwell
Deruchette
The Man Who Laughs
Term
Pablo Neruda
Definition
A Lamp on Earth
The Sand Betrayed
The Conquistadors
The Heights of Macchu Picchu
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Canto General
1971 Nobel Price in Literature - Chilean
Extravagaria
"Tonight I can write the saddest lines"
Elemental Odes
Odes to random things - artichoke, socks
Term
Samuel Beckett
Definition
Act Without Words
Krapp's Last Tape
Endgame
Waiting for Godot
Lucky and Pozzo encounter Vladimir and Estragon
sixty-ninth birthday listening to a recording of himself at thirty-nine
The Unnameable
Nell and Nagg live in trash cans
Hamm can't stand, Clov can't sit
Happy Days
Molloy
Malone Dies
Term
Dos Passos
Definition
Ellen Thatcher
Jimmy Herf
Manhattan Transfer
Three Soldiers
"camera eye"
The 42nd Parallel
The Big Money
1919
U.S.A. Trilogy
"Newsreel"
Term
Marcel Proust
Definition
Charles Morel, a talented violinist
Elstir
Vinteuil, a composer
Odette de Crecy
Charles Swann
Swann's Way
Rememberence of Thing Past
Pleasures and Days
Time Regained
In Search of Lost Time
Robert de Saint-Loup
Albertine
Sodom and Gomorrah
Term
Ronald Dahl
Definition
Matilda
James and the Giant Peach
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Term
Isabel Allende
Definition
Tao Chien
Elizabeth Sommers
Daughter of Fortune
Portrait in Sepia
Eva Luna
The House of the Spirits
Chilean
Term
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Definition
Aylmer kills his wife Georgiana in the process of removing an imperfection from her cheek
Dr. (*) Heidegger's Experiment" in Twice-Told Tales
Hester Prynne
The House of the Seven Gables
The Scarlett Letter
The Minister's Black Veil
The Birthmark
Colonel Pyncheon
Young Goodman Brown
The Blithedale Romance
Reverend Hooper
Faith
Miles Cloverdale
Term
Mario Vargas Llosa
Definition
Flora Tristand
Paul Gaughin
The Bad Girl
The Way to Paradise
Galileo Gali
Conversation in the Cathedral
The War of the End of the World
Pedro Comacho
Death in the Andes
Aunt Julia
The Script Writer
Leoncio Prado Military Academy
The Time of the Hero
The Green House
Don Anselmo
Peruvian
Term
T. S. Eliot
Definition
East Coker
Burnt Norton
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
April is the cruelest month
Gerontion
The Four Quartets
The Waste Land
the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper
Shantih shantih shantih
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Term
Washington Irving
Definition
Tales of the Alhambra
Diedrich Knickerbocker
Sleeps in the Carskills for 20 years
Brom Bones
The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
"Rip Van Winkle"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Ichabod Crane
"The Devil and Tom Walker"
Old Scratch
Katrina Van Tassel
Term
William Thackeray
Definition
The Virginians
William Dobbin
Amelia Sedley
George Osborne
Vanity Fair
The Luck of Barry Lyndon
Rawdon Crawley
Pendennis
Term
Andrew Marvell
Definition
"The Last Instructions to a Painter"
Upon Appleton House
The Garden
To His Coy Mistress
Term
Simone de Beauvoir
Definition
She Came to Stay
The Mandarins
"one is not born but becomes a women"
The Second Sex
lover of Sarte
The Ethics of Ambiguity
Term
Nadine Gordimer
Definition
radical politics of Lionel
The Conservationist
The Burger's Daughter
Smales family
July's People
An Occasion For Loving
A Sport of Nature
Get A Life
Hillela
Term
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Definition
Santiago Nasar
Angela Vicario
Vicario brothers
Juvenel Urbino
Love in the Time of Cholera
Jose Arcadio Buendia
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Columbian
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
gypsy Melquiades
Macondo
"A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings"
Leafstorm
Fermina Daza
Florentino Ariza
Term
Robert Frost
Definition
A Masque for Reason
“he is all pine and I am apple orchard”
"good fences make good neighbors"
"After Apple Picking"
"The Gift Outright"
"Mending Wall"
“My little horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse near”
"Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening"
"The Ovenbird"
"miles to go before I sleep"
"The Road Not Taken"
"Acquainted With The Night"
"Death of the Hired Man"
Term
William Blake
Definition
Urizen
"The Chimney Sweeper"
"What immortal hand or eye, could frame thy fearful symmetry!"
"burning bright in the forest of the night"
Songs of Innocence and Experience
"The Lamb"
"The Tyger"
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
"London"
"Jerusalem"
"Who made thee?"
The Four Zoas
Term
Octavio Paz
Definition
Eagle or Sun?
The Bow and the Lyre
Poem divided like an Aztec Calendar
"Sunstone"
The Labyrinth of Solitude
Monkey Grammarian, Hanuman
"The Conquest and Colonialism"
"Vrindaban"
"The Day of the Dead"
584 lines

Mexican
Term
Matsuo Basho
Definition
Winter Days/Sun
frog leaping into a pond
took his name from a banana plant
Narrow Road to the Deep North
master of the Haiku
Shriveled Chestnuts
The Records of a Travel Worn Satchel
Term
Theodore Dreiser
Definition
Frank Cowperwood
The Financier
Clyde Griffiths
An American Tragedy
Sister Carrie
The Titan
Term
Oscar Wilde
Definition
lover Alfred Douglass
De Profundis
"The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Jack Worthing
The Importance of Being Earnest
Lady Erlynne
Miss Prism
Lady Windermere's Fan
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Term
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Definition
"Locksley Hall"
Arthur Henry Hallam
"Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all."
In Memoriam
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Idylls of the King
“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield”
"Ulysses"
"Crossing the Bar"
"to see my pilot face to face"
The Lady of Shallot
"The Lotus Eaters"
Term
Heinrich Böll
Definition
The Lost Honor of Katherina Blum
Faehmel Family
Group Portrait with Lady
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Rahel befriends Leni Pfeiffer
Zupfner
St. Anthony's Abbey
Werner Totges
The Clown
Term
Emily Dickinson
Definition
"Zero at the Bone"
"There's a certain slant of light"
"I taste a liquor never brewed"
"Success is counted sweetest"
"I heard a fly buzz when I died"
"Because I could not stop for death"
"safe in the alabaster chambers"
"I could not see to see"
"Buzz, uncertain, stumbling buzz"
"I am nobody, who are you?"
Belle of Amherst
Term
Jane Austen
Definition
Love and Friendship
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
Sense and Sensibility
Term
Thomas Hardy
Definition
"The Darkling Thrush"
"Hap"
Arabella Donn
Sue Bridehead
Jude the Obscure
Michael Henchard
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Angel Clare
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Gabriel Oak
Bathsheba Everdene
Far From the Madding Crowd
The Return of the Native
The Woodlanders
Yeobright
Term
D.H. Lawrence
Definition
"The Prussian Officer"
"The Odour of Chrysanthemums"
The Plumed Serpent
The Rainbow
Sons and Lovers
Aaron's Rod
Women in Love
Clara Dawes
Miriam Leivers
Paul Morel
Sons and Lovers
Oliver Mellors
Lady Chetterley's Lover
"The Rocking Horse Winner"
Term
Charlotte Bronte
Definition
Shirley
Jane Eyre
Term
John Keats
Definition
Endymion
"was not born for death, immortal bird"
"thou still unravished bride of quietness"
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"
"Ode to a Nightingale"
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
"Where are the songs of spring?"
"To Autumn"
"Hyperion"
"The Even of St. Agnes"
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
Term
Lord Byron
Definition
"The Destruction of Sennacherib"
"She Walks in Beauty"
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
"The Prisoner of Chillon"
"came down like the wolf on the fold"
Don Juan
"How should I get thee?"
"When We Two Parted"
Term
Kurt Vonnegut
Definition
Paul Proteus
Hocus Pocus
Player Piano
San Lorenzo
Ice-Nine
Bokonism
Cat's Cradle
Billy Pilgrim
Dresden
Slaughterhouse-Five
Tramalfadorians
Galapagos
Breakfast of Champions
Malachi Constant
The Sirens of Titan
Montana Wildhack
"Harrison Bergeron"
Kilgore Trout
Term
Herman Melville
Definition
April Fool's Day
The Confidence Man
"Benito Cereno"
Captain Vere
Billy Budd
Moby-Dick
San Dominik
Amasa Delano
"The Lightning-Rod Man"
Piazza Tales
Bellipotent
John Claggart
Pierre
Ginger Nut
"I would prefer not to"
"Bartleby the Scrivener"
Enceladus
White-Jacket
The Bell-Tower
Term
Milan Kundera
Definition
Ludvik Jahn
Karenin
The Joke
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"Optimism is the Opium of the People!"
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Tomas and Tereza
Term
George Bernard Shaw
Definition
John Tanner
Don Juan and the Devil
Colonel Pickering
Eliza Doolittle
Henry Higgins
Man and Superman
Pygmalion
John Bull's Other Island
Andrew Undershaft
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Major Barbara
Arms and the Man
Term
O. Henry
Definition
"The Caballero's Way"
James Young sells his watches
Della Young sells her hair
"The Ransom of Red Chief"
"The Gift of the Magi"
Cabbages and Kings
The Four Million
Ebenezer Dorset
Term
Edmund Spenser
Definition
Amoretti
Shepherds Calendar
Duessa
Redcrosse Knight
Glorianna
Faerie Queen
"The Ruins of Time"
Prothalamion
"Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song"
Term
Petrarch
Definition
"The Ascent of Mount Ventoux"
Italian Sonnet
Canzoniere
love Laura
Poem about Scipio Africanus
On Illustrious Men
Term
Anton Chekhov
Definition
Yakov
Dimitri Gurov
"The Lady with the Dog"
Uncle Vanya
Arkadina
The Seagull
The Three Sisters
Lopakhin
Ranevsky
The Cherry Orchard
The Wood Demon
"The Bet"
Gooseberries
Term
Alexander Pope
Definition
Colley Cibber
"a little learning is a dangerous things"
An Essay On Criticism
The Dunciad
The Rape of the Lock
An Essay On Man
"Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"
Umbriel and Ariel
Term
Anne Bradstreet
Definition
"in ashes lie"
House burned down
"To My Dead and Loving Husband"
"Verses Upon the Burning of Our House"
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
"The Author to Her Book"
John Berryman "homage"
Term
Jonathan Edwards
Definition
"Sinners in the hands of an Angry God"
"their foot shall slide in due time"
Term
Aldous Huxley
Definition
Antic Hay
Ape and Essence
Chrome Yellow
Denis Stone
Mustapha Mond
John Savage
Point Counter Point
Brave New World
Mark Rampion
Marjorie
Eyeless in Gaza
Term
Edgar Allen Poe
Definition
"The Bells"
"Annabel Lee"
"The Conqueror Worm"
"The Raven"
Term
Franz Kafka
Definition
inscribes bodies with the law they broke
"In the Penal Colony"
"Parable of the Man before the Law"
Joseph K.
Apples thrown at a character
Gregor Samsa
transformation into an insect
The Trial
"The Metamorphosis"
The Castle
Rotpeter, an ape
"A Report to an Academy"
Term
George Orwell
Definition
The Road to Wigan Pier
Coming Up for Air
George Bowling
Burmese Days
Animal Farm
"Shooting an Elephant"
1984
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Down and Out in Paris and Londen
Homage to Catalonia
"Politics and the English Language"
Term
Virginia Woolf
Definition
Night and Day
Percival
Peter Walsh
Lily Bristow
Mrs. Ramsey
The Waves
To the Lighthouse
Mrs. Dalloway
Isle of Skye
Jacob's Room
Orlando
A Room of One's Own
Septimus Smith
Vita-Sackville West
The Voyage Out
Between the Acts
Term
Carlos Fuentes
Definition
Felipe Montero
Aura
The Old, New, and Next World
Terra Nostra
Ambrose Bierce
The Old Gringo
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Where the Air is Clear
Arroyo
Christopher Unborn
The New Hispano-American Novel
Term
Jack London
Definition
The Call of the Wild
The Iron Heel
John Thornton
To Build a Fire
Humphrey Van Weyden
The Sea-Wolf
White Fang
The People of the Abyss
"A Piece of Steak"
Yeehat Indians
Term
Toni Morrison
Definition
A Mercy
Milkman Dead
Song of Soloman
The Bluest Eye
Beloved
Sula
Term
Gwendolyn Brooks
Definition
"The Anniad"
Of Human Bondage
Bronzeville
The Bean Eaters
"Jazz June, Die Soon"
"We Real Cool"
"old yellow pair"
Annie Allan
"Womanhood"
Term
Daniel Defoe
Definition
1665 Plague
A Journal of the Plague Year
Moll Flanders
Robinson Crusoe
Gustavus Adolphus's Army
Memoirs of Cavalier
Roxana
"Conjugal Lewdness"
"The True Born Englishman"
Term
Eugene O'Neill
Definition
Ned Darrel
Sam Evans
Strange Interlude
Tyrone family
Mourning Becomes Elektra
Long Days Journey Into Night
The Iceman Cometh
A Touch of the Poet
The Hairy Ape
Term
Naguib Mahfouz
Definition
The Thief and the Dogs
The Children of Gebelawi
Ahmad
Yasin
Palace of Desire
Suger Street
Palace Walk
Cairo Trilogy
Term
Lewis Carroll
Definition
Cheshire Cat
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Term
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Definition
"The Grand Inquisitor"
Svidrigaylov
Lizaveta
Roskolnikov
Crime and Punishment
Alyosha
The Brothers Karamazov
The Gambler
prostitute Liza
The Idiot
Notes from the Underground
Poor Folk
Zverkov
The House of the Dead
"Apropos of the Wet Snow"
Term
Mark Twain
Definition
The Gilded Age
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Life Along the Mississippi
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tom Canty
The Mysterious Stranger
The Prince and the Pauper
Tom Driscoll
"The Great Dark"
The War Prayer
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
"Celebrated Jumping Frog"
A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Term
Saul Bellow
Definition
title character asks the narrator to write a memoir for him since he is dying of AIDS
Daisy and Madeline
Charlie Citrine
Von Humboldt Fleisher
"I am an American, Chicago born"
Herzog
The Adventures of Augie March
Mr. Sammler's Planet
Humboldt's Gift
Sieze the Day
Dr. Elya Gruner
Henderson the Rain King
Term
Percy Shelley
Definition
"two vast and trunkless legs of stone"
"Ozymandias"
"Ode to the West Wind"
"To a Skylark"
"hail to thee, blithe spirit"
"if Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"
A Defence of Poetry
expelled from Oxford
Term
Thomas de Quincey
Definition
"literature of power"
"literature of knowledge"
"On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth"
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Suspiria de Profundis
"The English Mail Coach"
"On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts"
Term
Joseph Conrad
Definition
Typhoon
The Secret Agent
Nostromo
Heart of Darkness
Nina
Charles Gould
San Tome
Constaguana
Lord Jim
Greenwich Observatory
sinking of Patna
Almayer's Folly
"The Secret Sharer"
Dain Waris
"The Horror! The Horror!"
Under Western Eyes
Term
Nikolai Gogol
Definition
Chichikov
Taras Bulba
Dead Souls
Akaky Akakievich
"The Nose"
"The Overcoat"
The Inspector General
Khlestakov
Nevsky Prospect
"Diary of a Madman"
Term
Christopher Marlowe
Definition
"come live with me and be my love"
Tamburlaine
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
Barabas dies in a Cauldron
The Jew of Malta
Doctor Faustus
The Massacre at Paris
Ithamore
Dido, Queen of Carthage
Ganymede
Edward II
Term
Pearl Buck
Definition
Lotus Blossom
Wang Lung
The Good Earth
Dragon Seed
Term
August Wilson
Definition
City of Bones
Gem of the Ocean
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Troy Maxson
The Piano Lesson
Fences
Levee
Boy Willie
Pittsburgh Cycle
Two Trains Running
Term
E. E. Cummings
Definition
"i sing of Olaf glad and big"
The Enormous Room
"anyone lived in a pretty how town"
"how do you like you blueeyed boy, Mister Death"
"Buffalo Bills defunct"
Term
Arthur Miller
Definition
The Man Who Had All the Luck
After the Fall
sold defective airplane parts in WWII
All My Sons
Biff, Happy, Willy Loman
The Death of a Salesman
The Crucible
The Price
Joe Keller
Abigail Williams, John Proctor
Eddie Carbone
The American Clock
A View From A Bridge
Term
Robert Penn Warren
Definition
At Heaven's Gate
All the Kings Men
Willy Stark
"Blackberry Winter"
Jerry Calhoun
Sue Murdock
Term
Ben Jonson
Definition
The Alchemist
Volpone
Corvino
Bartholomew Fair
Sir Epicure Mammon
Dol Common
Corbaccio
Abel Drugger
Every Man In His Humor
"To Celia"
"Drink to me only with thine eyes"
Term
Allen Ginsberg
Definition
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"
Howl
William Blake
"America"
"Sunflower Sutra"
"Wichita Vortex Sutra"
"Kaddish"
The Fall of America
"A Supermarket in California"
"I'm with you in rockland"
Term
Ayn Rand
Definition
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
Night of January 16
Term
Albert Camus
Definition
Dr. Bernard Rieux
disease that strikes Oran
The Plague
The Fall
The Stranger
Jean Baptiste Clamence
Ghent Altarpiece
Exile and the Kingdom
"The Growing Stone"
The Guest
The Myth of Sisyphus
Term
William Dean Howells
Definition
A Traveler from Altruria
Dryfoos
Every Other Weak
Basil March
A Modern Instance
A Hazard of New Fortunes
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Term
Ezra Pound
Definition
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly
"In A Station of the Metro"
The Cantos
Shades of Callimachus
Term
Robert Lowell
Definition
"The Quaker Graveyard at Nantucket"
"Skunk Hour"
"For the Union Dead"
Term
Alan Paton
Definition
Ah, But You Land is Beautiful
Too Late the Phalarope
Arthur Jarvis
Absalom
Cry, the Beloved Country
"perhaps I could've saved him with only a word"
Pieter Van Vlaanderen
Term
Emile Zola
Definition
Eteinne Lantier
Nana
twenty-one novel cycle
Les Rougon-MacQuart
Germica
J'Accuse
The Human Beast
Term
Robert Louis Stevenson
Definition
Admiral Benbow
Billy Bones
Jim Hawkins
Long John Silver
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
The Master of Ballantrae
Utterson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Bottle Imp
Term
Ivan Turgenev
Definition
"Bezhin Lea"
Diary of a Superflous Man
A Sportman's Sketches
Arkady Kirsanov
Bazarov
Fathers and Sons
Elena falls for Dimitri Isarov
One the Eve
"Yermolay and the Millers Wife"
Chulkaturin
Term
Pierre Corneille
Definition
Armenian Christianity
Polyeucte
Le Cid
The Comic Illusion
Don Sancho
Term
Jorge Borges
Definition
"The Garden of Forking Paths"
"The Library of Babel"
Ficciones
Infinite series of books
Dr. Yu Tsun
The Aleph
The Circular Ruins
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"
Ts'ui Pen
Term
Alexander Dumas
Definition
The Three Musketeers
The Count of Monte Cristo
Twenty Years After
The Black Tulip
Term
Wole Soyinka
Definition
A Dance of the Forests
The Strong Breed
Simon Pilkings
The Lion and the Jewl
Death and the King's Horseman
The Interpreters
Brother Jero
Madman and Specialists
The Man Died
The Bacchae
Nigerian
Term
Athol Fugard
Definition
The Island
The Road to Mecca
Sizwe Banzi is Dead
Blood Knot
Master Harold...and the Boys
South African
Term
Kenzaburo Oe
Definition
"The Catch"
"Teach Us How to Outgrow Our Madness"
Nip the buds, Shoot the kids
A Personal Matter
The Silent Cry
The Flaming Green Tree
The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away
Takashi and Mitsudokoro
Term
Eugene Ionesco
Definition
The Chair
The Bald Soprano
Rhinoceros
Berenger
Exit the King
The Killer
Victim on Duty
The Lesson
French
Term
Jean Paul Sartre
Definition
The Flies
"The Self Taught Man"
Antione Roquentin
Nausea
No Exit
"hell is other people"
Dirty Hands
Being and Nothingness
The Respectful Prostitute
Term
Gunter Grass
Definition
Danzig Trilogy
The Tin Drum
The Call of the Toad
Crabwalk
Cat and Mouse
Dog Years
Paul Prokiefke
Oscar Matzerath
Term
Ralph Waldo Ellison
Definition
"King of the Bingo Game"
Shadow and Act
Juneteenth
"battle royale"
Ras the destroyer/exhorter
Term
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Definition
Tilbury Town
"one calm summer night, went home and put a bullet through his head"
"Miniver Cheevy"
"Richard Cory"
"go to the wester gate"
"gentlemen from sole to crown"
Term
Nikos Kazantzakis
Definition
The Last Temptation of Christ
Zorba the Greek
Captain Michaelis
"a modern sequel"
Madame Hortense
Crete
Term
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Definition
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Charlotte and Albert
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Faust
Elective Affinities
Prometheus
The Elf King
German
Term
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Definition
The Minister's Wooing
Palmetto Leaves
Dred
"little woman who wrote the book that started this great war"
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Term
John Maxwell Coetzee
Definition
Susan Barton
The Life and Time of Michael K
Disgrace
Foe
Waiting for the Barbarians
Heart of the Country
David Lurie
The Magistrate
The Master of Petersburg
Term
Dylan Thomas
Definition
Captain Cat
Under Milk Wood
"Fern Hill"
"rage, rage against the dying of the light"
"Do not go gentle into that good night"
"The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower"
Term
Herman Hesse
Definition
Emil Sinclair
Demian
Glass-Bead Game
Harry Haller
Steppenwolf
Siddhartha
Beneath the Wheel
Joseph Knecht
Narcissus and Goldmund
Term
David Mamet
Definition
Glengarry Glen Ross
American Buffalo
Ricky Roma
The Water Engine
Speed-the-Plow
Oleanna
Term
Ambrose Bierce
Definition
"Chickamunga"
The Devil's Dictionary
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
"Moxon's Master"
murderous chess playing robot
Peyton Farquhar
"A Horseman in the Sky"
"The Damned Thing"
Term
Sylvia Plath
Definition
Dr. Nolan
Esther Greenwood
The Bell-Jar
"Bright as a Nazi Lampshade"
"I have always been scared of you, with your Luftwaffe"
"Lady Lazarus"
"Daddy"
"The Munich Mannequins"
Buddy Willard
Term
Harold Pinter
Definition
The Dumb Waiter
The Birthday Party
"lighting the gas" and "lighting the kettle"
Ben and Gus
The Caretaker
The Room
Ashes to Ashes
Term
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Definition
"I am the doubter and the doubt"
"Merlin"
"Brahma"
"The Rhodora"
"beauty is its own excuse for Being"
The Over Soul
"transparent eyeball"
The American Scholar
"Nature"
"Self-Reliance"
Phi Beta Kappa address
Divinity School Address
"Compensation"
"Experience"
Term
Robert Herrick
Definition
"Delight in Disorder"
"Corinna's Going A-Maying"
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may"
"To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time"
Term
Matthew Arnold
Definition
"The Scholar Gypsy"
"Thyris"
"darkling plain where ignorant armies clash by night"
"Dover Beach"
Sophocles heard it on the Aegean
Term
Wilfred Owen
Definition
"Futility"
"What passing bells for these who die as cattle"
"Strange Meeting"
"Anthem for Doomed Young"
"Dulce et Decorum Est"
"Parable of the Old Man and the Young"
Term
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Definition
"damsel with a dulcimer"
uses crossbow to shoot an albatross
"Kubla Khan"
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
River Alph
"water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink"
"Frost at Midnight"
Dejection: An Ode
Xanadu
Geraldine
Christabel
Term
Flannery O'Connor
Definition
deaf Lucynell
"A Good Man is Hard to Find"
"Everything that Rises Must Converge"
"Church without Christ"
Hazel Motes
Wise Blood
"Good Country People"
"The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
a racist character gives a black child a penny and get hit with a pocketbook on a bus
Term
William Butler Yeats
Definition
"Among School Children"
"Leda and the Swan"
"that is no country for old men"
"Sailing to Byzantium"
"slouches towards Bethlehem to be born"
"The Second Coming"
"Lapis Lazuli"
"great wings beating still above the staggering girl"
"Easter, 1916"
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
"things fall apart, the center cannot hold"
Term
James Baldwin
Definition
"Sonny's Blues"
"Going to meet the Man"
Go Tell It On The Mountain
"Down at the Cross"
"My Dungeon Shook"
Giovanni's Room
The Fire Next Time
Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone
Another Country
John Grimes
The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Term
Henry James
Definition
Peter Quint and Miss Jessel
The Golden Bowl
Isabel Archer
The Ambassadors
The Portrait of a Lady
The Turn of the Screw
Miles and Flora
The Princess Casamassima
Daisy Miller
Winterbourne
Term
Guy De Maupassant
Definition
"A Piece of String"
Bel-Ami
"Madame Tellier's Establishment”
"La Horla"
"The Ball of Fat"
"The Necklace"
Madame Loisel
Madame Forestier
“Mademoiselle Fifi”
Boule de Suif
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