"S" in Literature by HensleyB

Champion(s):

PetersonGG


Runner(s)-Up:

RoseM
De docta ignorantia


Quiz Description

All correct responses will begin with "S" (excluding leading articles).

Full Results:

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1 PetersonGG 485 98 15
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2 RoseM 406 95 15
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3 ESB 395 90 15
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3 WangA 395 90 15
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5 ChiltonC2 380 84 15
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5 SirolaD 380 84 15
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7 minarik15 377 80 15
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8 GrubbC 368 77 15
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9 BahnamanS 362 74 15
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10 UllspergerA 356 71 15
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11 WareD 323 66 15
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11 PruettC 323 66 15
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13 RosenbergR 296 60 15
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13 Goldenboy 296 60 15
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15 LaudermithM 293 56 15
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16 HatfieldS 290 53 15
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17 randalleng 248 50 15
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18 ShapiroA 226 46 00
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20 DoyleE 180 40 00
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21 Tablesaw 177 37 15
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Questions:

"The Rivals," whose character Mrs. Malaprop is the origin of the term malapropism, is a play written by what playwright and poet?

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The sonnet sequence "Astrophel and Stella" is the work of which English poet who also wrote "An Apology for Poetry"?

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Philip Sidney

Give the term that names a 36-line poem consisting of six stanzas of six lines each followed by a three-line envoi and which features the repetition of key words from the first stanza.

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sestina

The life of poet A. E. Housman is central to the play "The Invention of Love," a work of which playwright?

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Tom Stoppard

Identify the poem subtitled "A Winter Idyl" that is the source of the lines below.

Shut in from all the world without,
We sat the clean-winged hearth about,
Content to let the north-wind roar
In baffled rage at pane and door

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Snow-Bound

Which poet penned these lines in his "Pullman Porter" in which he tells of a conversation between himself and a train porter?

“When I was quite a little boy I used to savour them with joy;
And now my daughter, aged three,
Can tell the tale of Sam McGee;
While Tom, my son, that’s only two,
Has heard the yarn of Dan McGrew ....
Don’t think your stuff I’m not applaudin’ —
My taste is Eliot and Auden.”

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Robert W. Service

What name is shared by two female Roman poets, the earlier of the two being the only woman poet of Ancient Rome whose poetry survives today in the form of six love poems addressed to Cerinthus?

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Sulpicia

Identify the author of the lines below.

So between them love did shine
That the Turtle saw his right
Flaming in the Phoenix' sight:
Either was the other's mine.

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William Shakespeare

Condemned by the Roman Catholic Church, "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" is a work of which author who also wrote of a mass epidemic of blindness in another novel?

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José Saramago

Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, who has been sentenced to ten years of hard labor for espionage, is the protagonist of a novel by what author?

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What namesake and protagonist of an epic poem becomes king of the Mali Empire after defeating the sorcerer king Sosso?

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Sundiata

Lorraine Hansberry wrote only two plays that were ever staged-- "A Raisin in the Sun" and which other? Aside from the titular writer, its other characters include his wife Iris, the activist Alton Scales, the prostitute Gloria, and the corrupt politician Wally O’Hara.

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The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window