This document provides a list of 10 famous lines from literature matched with the authors and novels they come from. It asks the reader to identify the stress patterns in each line. This will help students practice identifying stress patterns in famous quotations and associating them with their original literary works.
General Objective. Intended as a pre-reading activity, this project has been created to foster reading, intercultural conscience, and creating students’ own learning materials by means of cooperative work and use of NNTT.
Specific Objective: Getting familiar to Ireland, Oscar Wilde and Ghost stories.
Grouping: The project implies individual, small and big group work. The 30 students will be divided into 6 groups of 5 members each. Each group will work an aspect of the project; and each member will play a different role within the small group.
General Objective. Intended as a pre-reading activity, this project has been created to foster reading, intercultural conscience, and creating students’ own learning materials by means of cooperative work and use of NNTT.
Specific Objective: Getting familiar to Ireland, Oscar Wilde and Ghost stories.
Grouping: The project implies individual, small and big group work. The 30 students will be divided into 6 groups of 5 members each. Each group will work an aspect of the project; and each member will play a different role within the small group.
1. Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa
Pronunciation II
I. Match the following lines with their authors and novels and then show where the stress goes on
each line.
Famous lines Authors and novels
1. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice,
'without pictures or conversations?'" ___ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
2. “The essential is invisible for the eyes.”
___ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
3. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a
single man in possession of a good fortune,
must be in want of a wife. -
___ Charles Dickens, David
4. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Copperfield (1850)
Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember
that distant afternoon when his father took him
to discover ice. - ___ Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two
Cities (1859)
5. It was the best of times, it was the worst of
times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age
of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was ___ Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of
Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was
the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. ____ Miguel de Cervantes, Don
Quixote (1605; trans. Edith Grossman)
6. I am an invisible man.
7. You don't know about me without you have ___ Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry
read a book by the name of The Adventures of Finn (1885)
Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
8. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my ___ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
own life, or whether that station will be held by
anybody else, these pages must show.
9. Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose ____ Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred
name I do not care to remember, a gentleman Years of Solitude (1967; trans. Gregory
lived not long ago, one of those who has a Rabassa)
lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps
a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing. -
____ The little prince. Antoine de Saint
10. Two households, both alike in dignity, Exupéry
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.