Wednesday: Literature Flashcards
This author wrote a play in which Nemov and Lyuba are the title prisoners in The Love-Girl and the Innocent
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
He wrote a cycle of novels including August 1914 and November 1916, collectively called the Red Wheel, while another of his novels focuses on Oleg Kostlogotov and other patients at an Uzbek hospital, Cancer Ward.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
He did not attend his Nobel ceremony out of fear that he would not be allowed home, but he was deported anyway after he wrote about the experience of zeks in forced labor camps
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Name this Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The speaker of this poem yearns “to follow knowledge like a sinking star / Beyond the utmost bound of human thought” and observes that though “the long day wanes,” “‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
“Ulysses”
In the opening lines of this poem, the speaker voices his frustration at living “By this still hearth / among these barren crags” and doling “Unequal laws unto a savage race.”
“Ulysses”
In the second stanza, the speaker introduces his son, who attempts to “by slow prudence to make mild / A rugged people.”
“Ulysses”
he final stanza of this poem calls for mariners to join the speaker in his quest to “sail beyond the sunset” in “One equal temper of heroic hearts.”
“Ulysses”
Ending with the speaker proclaiming that he is “strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield,” name this Tennyson poem about an aged hero of a Greek epic.
“Ulysses”
In one early scene of this novel, Sam and Andy excite the horses to delay a pursuit for their friend
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
A character in this novel distributes locks of her hair as she dies, inspiring compassion in Ophelia
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
In this novel, The protagonist becomes separated with his wife Aunt Chloe, but his fate turns when he saves Eva from drowning, impressing her father Augustine St. Clare.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
In this novel, the title character is beaten to death by Simon Legree.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
One of this writer’s protagonists has a husband who is found dead on a sailboat and a sister who drives a car off a bridge
Margaret Atwood
A protagonist of this author is Iris Chase.
Margaret Atwood
