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• Who wrote "Of Studies"?

  Francis Bacon
• What is Francis Bacon known as?

  Father of Modern Science
• What is Francis Bacon's famous quote?

  Knowledge is power
• How many lines are in a Shakespeare sonnet?

  14
• What is Victor Hugo famous for?


  Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Who wrote The Phantom of the Opera?

  Gaston Leroux
• Who wrote War and Peace?

  Leo Tolstoy
• What is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry famous for?

  The Little Prince
• Which poems is Robert Frost famous for?


  The Road Not Taken and Stopping by the Woods
• What themes do Robert Frost's works mostly explore?

  Making decisions and fate
• What is Rudyard Kipling known for?


  Fables and The Jungle Book
• What genre is H.G. Wells famous for?


  Sci-fi novels
• Which novels is George Orwell famous for?

  1984 and Animal Farm
• What inspired George Orwell's 1984?

  A TV show called Big Brother
• What is William Wordsworth known as?

  The Poet of Nature
• What is Jonathan Swift famous for?


  Satire in English literature
• What is Ernest Hemingway known for?


  Farewell to Arms
• Who wrote Paradise Lost?

  John Milton
• Who compiled the first English dictionary?

  Samuel Johnson
• What is the Merchant of Venice about?

  A Jew
• What was William Blake known for?

  Both a poet and a painter
• What is John Keats called?


  The Poet of Beauty
• Who is Bertrand Russell?


  Philosopher and logician
• What is the longest word in the dictionary?

  Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
• Which family does Romeo belong to?

  Montague family
• What does oxymoron mean?


  Means the opposite of its literal meaning
• What is an in-text citation?

  Uses author's last name, year, page number
• What is inflection?


  Addition of "-ex" or "-d"
• In what year did Shakespeare die?

  1616 AD
• What is Bildungsroman?


  Coming of age
• What is intersexuality in literature?


  One text influences another
• What era of literature celebrates nature, emotion, and individualism?

  Romanticism
• What is "The Age of Reason" also known as?

  The Enlightenment
• What is a soliloquy?


  A speech of a character's thoughts aloud
• Who was the Roman playwright known for adapting Greek comedies?

  Plautus
• What is the theme of the Pardoner's Tale?

  Greed is the root of all evil
• What is an anachronism?


  An event placed in the wrong time period
• What is zeugma?


  Figure of speech applying a word to multiple parts
• What are epistolary novels?


  Novels written in letters or diary entries
• What is metafiction?


  Fiction that self-consciously addresses its devices