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39 basic cards for College Literature. It opens with "Who wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?" and "What literary movement emphasizes internal consciousness and subjective". Study it alongside the other College sets below.

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Who wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
Show answerGabriel Garcia Marquez
What literary movement emphasizes internal consciousness and subjective experience in the early 20th century?
Show answerModernism
Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?
Show answerFyodor Dostoyevsky
Which Charles Dickens novel depicts the French Revolution and begins 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'?
Show answer'A Tale of Two Cities'
What is the literary term for narratives that blend magical or impossible elements with realistic settings?
Show answerMagical realism
Who is the author of 'The Brothers Karamazov'?
Show answerFyodor Dostoyevsky
What is a narrative or poem in which characters and events symbolize abstract ideas or moral lessons?
Show answerAllegory
Who wrote 'Les Miserables'?
Show answerVictor Hugo
Which literary movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries celebrated emotion, nature, and the individual?
Show answerRomanticism
Who is the author of 'Beloved'?
Show answerToni Morrison
What is the traditional Japanese poetic form with three lines arranged in a 5-7-5 syllable pattern?
Show answerHaiku
Who wrote 'Ulysses'?
Show answerJames Joyce
Which early modern Spanish novel features a delusional knight and is often considered the first modern novel?
Show answer'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes
What artistic and literary movement rejected rational thought and emphasized dreams and the unconscious?
Show answerSurrealism
Who is the author of 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Show answerJane Austen

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