First Lines Quiz [Answers]

1) Lord of The Flies by William Golding

2) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

3) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

4) 1984 by George Orwell

5) The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger

6) The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

7) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

8) Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

9) Tess of The D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

10) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

11) The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame

12) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

13) The Stranger by Albert Camus

14) The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

15) Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

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What Is A Paradelle?

The paradelle is one of the more demanding French fixed forms, first appearing in the langue d'oc love poetry of the eleventh century. It is a poem of four six-line stanzas in which the first and second lines, as well as the third and fourth lines of the first three stanzas, must be identical. The fifth and sixth lines, which traditionally resolve these stanzas, must use all the words from the preceding lines and only those words. Similarly, the final stanza must use every word from all the preceding stanzas and only those words.

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