CJC Great Literary Quiz

[spiderpig]

1.  What do you call a rhyme that looks like it does but actually doesn't?
2. What is the specific literary term for a regular four line stanza?
3. What do you call the form of poetry that contains an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba and a sestet of various rhyme patterns?
   
4. A 19 line verse form.
5. What is the specific literary term for a double stressed pair of syllables?
6. Who wrote the following novels - Far From the Madding Crowd, The Trumpet Major and Under the Greenwood Tree?
7. According to Mary Shelley, was Frankenstein a monster or a man?
8. Complete the following line from Wordsworth. "I wandered lonely as a _____"
9. In which century was Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus written and performed?
10. In Shakespeare's Othello, who has mor soliloquies - Othello, Iago or Desdemona?
11. Name two novels written by Joseph Conrad other than Heart of Darkness.
12. What style of theatre do we associate with the following playwrights - Bertold Brecht, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett.
13. The following books make up which triologies and by whom?
    
    • Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
    • The Good Earth, Sons, A House Divided
    • The Fellowship Of The Ring, The Two Towers, Return of the King
      
14. Identify the novel or short story started by each of these famous opening lines:
    
    • It was love at first sight.
    • The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.
    • It was a dark and stormy night.
      
15. Why would the cat in the title of one of Robert Heinlein's well-known books be such a great buglar?
16. What do these 4 sentences have in common?
    We all make his praise.
    I swear he's like a lamp.
    "Has Will a peer?" I ask me.
    Ah, I speak a swell rime.
17. One to one thousand! What books did these authors write with the numbers "1" and "1000" in the title.
    
    • Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1)
    • Arthur Schelsinger (1000)
18. Long Day's Journey into Night is best described as:
    
    • A) A statement to his mother about how he relates with his own wife
    • B) An expose piece on his r/s with his sons
    • C) An autobiographical account of O'Neill's own family
    • D) A biographical sketch of the life of Arthur Miller
19. In Long Day's Journey into Night, Tyrone maintains that the only literature worth reading is ___.
20. In Brave New World, what famous 19th century German philosopher is indirectly alluded to in this sentence: 'All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative'?
21. What languages are spokein in the world as BNW?
22. Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale can be classified with Orwell's 1984, Huxley's BNW, and Burgess's A Clockwork Orange as ____.
23. In The Handmaid's Tale, Offred's real name is ____.
24. In The Glass Menagerie, how did Tenessee Williams refer to the 1960s?
    
    • A) As his 'everlasting summer of love'
    • B) As his 'stoned age'
    • C) As ' the winder of my discontent'
    • D) As the 'age of revolution through theatre'
25. What, according to Tom, is man by instinct in The Glass Menagerie?
    
    • A) A lover, a hunter, a fighter
    • B) A dancer, a singer, a cook
    • C) A sprinter, a builder, an achiever
    • D) A poet, a martyr, a soothsayer
26. What is Jim O'Connor's nickname for Laura?
27. Which poem, in Blake's collectoin of poems Songs of Innocence and Experience, offers a perspective of innoncence that seems to parallel the proverb "If all do their duty, they need not fear harm."
28. Name any 2 poems in Songs of Innocence and Experience that touch on Blake's view of the tragedy of a city oppressed by laws and regulations that reduce its inhabitants to mere cogs in a machine.
29. What do Kurtz in Heart of Darkness and the lead character in the famous movie The Silence Of The Lambs have in common?
30. What does the name Kurtz mean and which language is it from?

Every class has to do this? So hay guys, if you don't mind helping with some of the questions.... ;D

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[phrotus.livejournal.com]

3. sonnet
4. villanelle
13. -La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) by Dante Alighieri
-... the Good Earth trilogy? by Pearl Buck
-The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien ;o
16. They all contain the same letters.
20. Immanuel Kant
22. Dystopianism
30. "short." 'tis German.

I can dig up the rest for you with some judicious Googling if you like :o!

[phrotus.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the first part of 17 is "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch"

[gweenmeanie.livejournal.com]

1. sight rhyme!
2. quatrain!
5. spondee?

(Yeah...Junior year of high school English.)

[spiderpig.livejournal.com]

Oh hurrah! (Actually I have most of the answers already? But I'm kiasu and did this for a second opinion because I doubt my class would help :x)

XD I was confused at qn 17 because I wasn't sure if it was that, or ahhaha 'August 1914' because it has '1's in it too. :D()

Thank you for the help~~ I think I won't trouble you anymore? O:

[spiderpig.livejournal.com]

:D AND KURTZ IS SHORT!!!! :D

My class was insistent that it was 'light'?

<3 Mad raburabu for Silla!

[spiderpig.livejournal.com]

Teehee spondee. It sounds like something a pokemon would say.

Thank you Hana-chaaaaaaaaan. <3

16. anagram

[(Anonymous)]

17.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

why dont you list down the ones you have yet to figure out or are in doubt?

[izzyferret.livejournal.com]

23. In The Handmaid's Tale, Offred's real name is ____.

o.O Didn't they make it a point in the Historical Notes to point out that she DIDN'T tell us her real name? I mean I know it was hinted at, but to say it like fact strikes me as a little odd, since her nameless status is pretty important to the theme...

[izzyferret.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah just thought I'd mention that the name they hint at in the book is June. Her name in the movie is Kate.

[spiderpig.livejournal.com]

:D Sankyuu~

Though, the movie was... quite... Well I didn't appreciate it as much as the book. :D()

Re: 16. anagram

[spiderpig.livejournal.com]

WELL, partly because its an online reference to my classmates (so I'd rather have the complete list...).

Damn! I thought it was the historian! I was confused because it was a literary quiz afterall!