BB lit notes from Robies first

Question 1

Main character befriends a native, whom he names “Friday.”

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Robinson Crusoe

Question 1

What is the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn classified as?

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Classified as a picaresque novel

Question 1

who grew up in hannibal, missouri

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Mark twain

Question 1

If “mississipi river” guess which author?

Answer 1

Mark Twain

Question 2

What is Kim by Kipling classified as?

Answer 2

Classified as a picaresque novel

Question 3

“Shun the frumious Bandersnatch”

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Jabberwocky

Question 3

What is a Picaresque novel?

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Depicts a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society

Question 4

What is the second stop of Gullicer’s travels?

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Second stop: Brobdingnag (home of giants)

Question 5

Rum Tum Tugger

Answer 5

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

Question 6

Natty Bumpo

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The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer

Question 6

What book was Inspiration for the Broadway musical “Cats” by Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

Question 7

100 stories told by 10 youths hiding from the Black Death outside Florence.

Answer 7

The Decameron

Question 8

What type of story is The Decameron?

Answer 8

Frame Story

Question 8

Sancho Panza

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Don Quixote

Question 9

The four sisters of the March family, the most important of which was Josephine “Jo” March

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Little Women

Question 9

Pangloss

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Candide (Candide’s ridiculous tutor)

Question 10

What is the first stop of Gullicer’s travels?

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First stop: Lilliput (land of little people)

Question 12

“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan”

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Kubla Khan

Question 14

Starting point of The Canterbury Tales

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The Tabard Inn

Question 15

Tilting against windmills

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Don Quixote

Question 16

What are two of the five novels collectively known as the Leatherstocking Tales

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The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer

Question 18

Don Quixote

Answer 18

Don Quixote

Question 19

What is a Bildungsroman?

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A coming-of-age tale

Question 20

Jellicle cats

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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

Question 22

Set in Nero's Rome

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Quo Vadis by Sienkiewick

Question 23

The Republic of Gilead has replaced the USA

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The Handmaid's Tale

Question 25

What elements does the novel Candide by Voltaire use?

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Elements of a picaresque, but more a bildungsroman

Question 26

Cunegone

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Candide (Lady who is the object of Candide's affections)

Question 27

El dorado or "over the mountains in the moon"

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El Dorado by poe

Question 28

The kingdom by the sea

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Anabellee

Question 30

What book is a collection of Stories told by a company of pilgrims

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The Canterbury Tales

Question 31

Aldonza / Dulcinea

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Don Quixote

Question 32

What essay says that the British should eat the Irish babies.

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A Modest Proposal

Question 33

What author is classified as Metaphysical?

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Donne

Question 34

What was Mark twain's first major work?

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Celebrated jumping forg of Calaveras County

Question 35

Setting: Yoknapatawpha County

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(as are many of Faulkner's works)

Question 35

Candide

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Candide

Question 36

What type of Novel is Moll Flanders

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Classified as a picaresque novel

Question 38

Offred (the narrator and main character)

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The Handmaid's Tale

Question 39

"The fog comes in / on little cat feet"

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Fog by Sandburg

Question 41

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever"

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Endymion by Keats

Question 42

"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves"

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Jabberwocky

Question 43

"O my Luve's like a red, red rose"

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A Red, Red Rose

Question 44

"All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds."

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Pangloss's enunciation of that philosophy: in candide by voltaire

Question 45

"tin tin abulation" or the bells

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The bells

Question 46

Define: Frame Story

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A literary technique where the introduction provides a framework for including a set of shorter pieces.

Question 47

Written for and read at the 1993 inauguration of President Clinton

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On the Wings of Morning

Question 48

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?

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Sonnet 18 by shakespear

Question 49

"Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright"

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The Tyger

Question 50

Destination of The Canterbury Tales

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The Shrine of Thomas a'Becket at the Canterbury Cathedral

Question 51

Old Deuteronomy

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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats