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Academic Team questions -- A
answers begin with A -- world lit, philosophy and religion
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11th Grade
11/06/2008

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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here
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at the entrance to hell in Dante's THE DIVINE COMEDY
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Theatre of the ABSURD
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Plays that stress the illogical aspects of experience
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Edward Albee
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Playwright famous for writing theatre of the absurd
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Aeneid
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Latin epic written by VIRGIL about Aeneas after the Trojan War
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agnosticism
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denial of knowledge about the existence of God
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Ali Baba
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a title character in "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" from ARABIAN NIGHTS
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Hans Christian Anderson
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Danish writer noted for fairy tales.
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animism
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Belief that natural objects such as rivers or rocks possess a soul or spirit.
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Anna Karenina
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famous Russian novel by Leo Tolstoy
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anthropomorphism
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attributing human characteristics to inanimate objects (think the library printer)
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Thomas Aquinas
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Italian priest and theologian. Most influential in Middle Ages - also a saint.
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Summa Theologica
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most famous work of Thomas Aquinas
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Aristophanes
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Greek dramatist famous for comedies
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Augustine
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Saint in the Catholic Church. He wrote "The City of God" and "Confessions" 4th & 5th centuries.
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