lit Flashcards
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Farewell to Arms
Hemingway
WWI novel about the soldier Frederic Henry, who deserts the Italian army
Farewell to Arms
this novel’s protagonist flees to switzerland after the battle of Caporetto and falls in love with a British nurse named Catherine Barkley
Farewell to Arms
this novel’s protagonist plays billiards with Count Greffi and is introduced to his lover by the surgeon Rinaldi
Farewell to Arms
this novel ends with the protagonist waling towards his hotel in the rain
Farewell to Arms
In this novel, bottles of kummel lead Miss van Campen to suspect the protagonist’s jaundice was caused by his alcoholism.
Farewell to Arms
Two characters escape across Lake Maggiore [muhJORae] to avoid one’s execution by the military police.
Farewell to Arms
This novel’s main female character is accused of having no shame by her former friend Helen Ferguson, who works with Lieutenant (*) Rinaldi.
Farewell to Arms
This novel’s protagonist leaves his lover’s dead body, which was “like saying goodbye to a statue,” and walks back to the hotel in the rain in its ending, which was rewritten 47 times.
Farewell to Arms
Crowell Rodgers gives the protagonist of this book a tip about which horse to bet on at the races. After this novel’s protagonist returns from a horse race with the Meyerses, he comforts his love interest who claims that “rain is very hard on loving.”
Farewell to Arms
At one point in this novel, one character hides under a tarp covering stockpile artillery on a train bound for Milan and reunites with his lover in Stresa.
Farewell to Arms
Beowulf
who knows
this Old English epic about the title Geatish slayer of Grendel.
Beowulf
One character in this work dies after getting his arm ripped off during a battle in Hrothgar’s mead-hall
Beowulf
This work’s title character is challenged by (*) Breca to a swimming contest and it opens with the funeral of Scyld Scefing.
Beowulf
In this poem, Unferth mocks a visiting warrior over his swimming match with Breca, but lends him the sword (*) Hrunting for a battle with an underwater monster
Beowulf
A (*) descendent of Cain and its mother are defeated by the protagonist of this epic
Beowulf
This poem ends with mourning of its title character as “Kindest to his people and keenest to win fame.” The epithet “God-cursed” for a villain of this poem reflects that character’s descent from Cain.
Beowulf
This work’s protagonist dies in a fight against a dragon while accompanied by Wiglaf.
Beowulf
A character in this work uses a heavy sword from the “days of the giants” to decapitate a creature he reached after swimming for a day
Beowulf
This poem’s title character is welcomed by Queen Wealhtheow [WAYL-thay-oh] at a feast where he describes a swimming match against Breca
Beowulf
In a story in this work, the corpses of an uncle and nephew who fought on opposite sides of a battle are burned in the same fire on the orders of the wife of the Frisian king Finn.
Beowulf
Catch 22
Heller
Yossarian’s attempts to leave the Air Force are thwarted by the title paradox in what novel
Catch 22