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| verse which expresses a lament for the dead |
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| in which the actions of a hero are described |
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| comparison between 2 unlike things to suggest a likeness between he two (a heart of gold) |
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litery movement during the 1800s which stressed truth and accuracy
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literary movement during 1700 - mid-1800s, which praised human emotions, the beauty and goodness of the
universe -mankind naturally good
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| comparison between 2 unlike things usually introduced by like or as |
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| movement originating in France during the 1920s; the expression of the unconscious mind in art and literature |
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| Middle ages (legends, epic and lyric poetry, romances |
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| Renaissance (sonnets, blank verse, plays, novels, essays) |
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| reference to a historical, literary, or generalyl familiar character or event that helps to make an idea understandable |
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| contains one independent clause and at least one dependent clause |
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| consist of two or more independent clauses joined by coordinating conjunction uses and or but and a comma |
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| when a coordinating conjunction joins two complex sentences, or one simple sentence and one complex sentences |
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| Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye . New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 1945. |
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| type of source material that may include a student's personal dictionary of words to know or spell, note cards, graphic organizers, oral histories, and journals |
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| Salinger, J.D. (1945). The Cather in the Rye . New York: Little, Brown, and Company |
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-human experience
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-Nostalgia
-Preservation of old values
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emphasis on individual
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The Call of the Wild
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-children and grandchildren of slaves -desperation; sadness
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unconventional use of metaphor
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re-examination of life
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individual=spiritual center of universe
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| Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas |
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human experience
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-Preservation of old values
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emphasis on individual
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-children and grandchildren of slaves
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unconventional use of metaphor
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-individual=spiritual center of universe
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Born before Civil War
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complex symbolism
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1.A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge.
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| Graphic organizer made of overlapping circles and is best used to compare and contrast. |
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recounts the story of Lemuel Gulliver, a practical-minded Englishman trained as a surgeon who takes to the seas when his business fails. In a deadpan first-person narrative that rarely shows any signs of self-reflection or deep emotional response, Gulliver narrates the adventures that befall him on these travels.
Gulliver’s adventure in Lilliput begins when he wakes after his shipwreck to find himself bound by innumerable tiny threads and addressed by tiny captors who are in awe of him but fiercely protective of their kingdom. They are not afraid to use violence against Gulliver, though their arrows are little more than pinpricks. But overall, they are hospitable, risking famine in their land by feeding Gulliver, who consumes more food than a thousand Lilliputians combined could. Gulliver is taken into the capital city by a vast wagon the Lilliputians have specially built. He is presented to the emperor, who is entertained by Gulliver, just as Gulliver is flattered by the attention of royalty. Eventually Gulliver becomes a national resource, used by the army in its war against the people of Blefuscu, whom the Lilliputians hate for doctrinal differences concerning the proper way to crack eggs. But things change when Gulliver is convicted of treason for putting out a fire in the royal palace with his urine and is condemned to be shot in the eyes and starved to death. Gulliver escapes to Blefuscu, where he is able to repair a boat he finds and set sail for England. |
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| Lead first, followed by by details presented in the order of importance. EX: News Article |
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| Jeane George - Eskimo girl forced to change. |
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| THe writer moves through the sages in a unique sequence (each writers process is not linear; it is unique to each writer |
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| Jess Aarons is an eleven-year-old boy living in a rural area of the South who loves to run. He dreams of being the fastest boy in the fifth grade when school starts up in the fall, feeling that this will for once give him a chance to stand in the spotlight among his five sisters, and might win him the attention of his preoccupied father. Jess is quite insecure in his identity. He loves to paint and draw, but he knows very well that this labels him a "sissy" in the eyes of most of the world, particularly his father. In addition, his family is stretched so tight by poverty that he has little chance to really explore his own identity during this crucial period of adolescence. He has therefore built up the importance of winning in his mind, feeling that here, at least, is something that he is good at which won't win him an undesired label of "sissy" or "girl" in the eyes of his father or schoolmates, and which will allow him to shine in his own right. He practices each morning, always dreaming of his upcoming victory. However, when the races come around at recess, a new girl, Leslie Burke, who just moved next door to Jess, boldly crosses to the boys' side of the playground and beats everyone. |
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| Louis Sachaer - a story about bullying, lizards and camp green lake. Main character - Stanley Yates, is sent to camp as a punishment for stealing sneakers. |
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| a romantic, historical tale about a young girl's rebellion against bigotry and her Puritan surroundings. Kit is a free-spirited sixteen-year-old colonial girl from Barbados who comes to live with relatives in the solemn, hard-working town of Wethersfield, Connecticut. Kit feels trapped and lonely in her new life until the day she finds refuge in the Meadows. There she meets an old Quaker woman named Hannah, who is known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. Uncle Matthew forbids Kit to see Hannah, but Kit persists in visiting her friend and even helps an abused child named Prudence find solace there. When an epidemic causes the townspeople to go after Hannah for practicing witchcraft, Kit helps her escape. Then Kit herself becomes the subject of the witch hunt. Her incarceration and trial force her to reexamine her feelings towards two young men and her future. In the end, Kit must choose the direction her life will take. |
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| 2 highschool sophomres who befriend MR. Pignati. |
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| is written from the point of view of Jonas, an eleven-year-old boy living in a futuristic society that has eliminated all pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, and there is very little competition. Everyone is unfailingly polite. The society has also eliminated choice: at age twelve every member of the community is assigned a job based on his or her abilities and interests. Citizens can apply for and be assigned compatible spouses, and each couple is assigned exactly two children each. The children are born to Birthmothers |
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| An open syllable has one and only one vowel, and that vowel occurs at the end of the syllable. Examples include no, she, I, a, and spry. |
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| Enlightenment (c. 1660–1790): |
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| Enlightenment (c. 1660–1790): An intellectual movement in France and other parts of Europe that emphasized the importance of reason, progress, and liberty. The Enlightenment, sometimes called the Age of Reason, is primarily associated with nonfiction writing, such as essays and philosophical treatises. Major Enlightenment writers include Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, René Descartes. |
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| (1890s–1940s): A literary and artistic movement that provided a radical breaks with traditional modes of Western art, thought, religion, social conventions, and morality. Major themes of this period include the attack on notions of hierarchy; experimentation in new forms of narrative, such as stream of consciousness; doubt about the existence of knowable, objective reality; attention to alternative viewpoints and modes of thinking; and self-referentiality as a means of drawing attention to the relationships between artist and audience, and form and content. |
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| Naturalism (c. 1865–1900): A literary movement that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character. Leading writers in the movement include Émile Zola, Theodore Dreiser, and Stephen Crane. |
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| (c. 1830–1900): A loose term that can refer to any work that aims at honest portrayal over sensationalism, exaggeration, or melodrama. Technically, realism refers to a late-19th-century literary movement—primarily French, English, and American—that aimed at accurate detailed portrayal of ordinary, contemporary life. Many of the 19th century’s greatest novelists, such as Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, and Leo Tolstoy, are classified as realists. Naturalism ( see above ) can be seen as an intensification of realism. |
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| Romanticism (c. 1798–1832): A literary and artistic movement that reacted against the restraint and universalism of the Enlightenment. The Romantics celebrated spontaneity, imagination, subjectivity, and the purity of nature. Notable English Romantic writers include Jane Austen, William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth. Prominent figures in the American Romantic movement include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, William Cullen Bryant, and John Greenleaf Whittier. |
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| (c. 1835–1860): An American philosophical and spiritual movement, based in New England, that focused on the primacy of the individual conscience and rejected materialism in favor of closer communion with nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden are famous transcendentalist works. |
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| Victorian era (c. 1832–1901): The period of English history between the passage of the first Reform Bill (1832) and the death of Queen Victoria (reigned 1837–1901). Though remembered for strict social, political, and sexual conservatism and frequent clashes between religion and science, the period also saw prolific literary activity and significant social reform and criticism. Notable Victorian novelists include the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, and Thomas Hardy, while prominent poets include Matthew Arnold; Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and Christina Rossetti. Notable Victorian nonfiction writers include Walter Pater, John Ruskin, and Charles Darwin |
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| (c. 1832–1901): The period of English history between the passage of the first Reform Bill (1832) and the death of Queen Victoria (reigned 1837–1901). Though remembered for strict social, political, and sexual conservatism and frequent clashes between religion and science, the period also saw prolific literary activity and significant social reform and criticism. Notable Victorian novelists include the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, and Thomas Hardy, while prominent poets include Matthew Arnold; Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and Christina Rossetti. Notable Victorian nonfiction writers include Walter Pater, John Ruskin, and Charles Darwin |
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| (c. 1660–1798): A literary movement, inspired by the rediscovery of classical works of ancient Greece and Rome that emphasized balance, restraint, and order. Neoclassicism roughly coincided with the Enlightenment, which espoused reason over passion. Notable neoclassical writers include Edmund Burke, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, and Jonathan Swift. |
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| (c. 1066–1500): The transitional period between Anglo-Saxon and modern English. The cultural upheaval that followed the Norman Conquest of England, in 1066, saw a flowering of secular literature, including ballads, chivalric romances, allegorical poems, and a variety of religious plays. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is the most celebrated work of this period. |
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| (c. 1918–1930s): A term used to describe the generation of writers, many of them soldiers that came to maturity during World War I. Notable members of this group include F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Ernest Hemingway, whose novel The Sun Also Rises embodies the Lost Generation’s sense of disillusionment. |
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| (c. 1918–1930): A flowering of African-American literature, art, and music during the 1920s in New York City. W. E. B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk anticipated the movement, which included Alain Locke’s anthology The New Negro, Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, and the poetry of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. |
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| is the pattern of sound created by the varying length and emphasis given to different syllables. The rise and fall of spoken language is called its cadence. |
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| The foot is the basic rhythmic unit into which a line of verse can be divided. When reciting verse, there usually is a slight pause between feet. When this pause is especially pronounced, it is called a caesura. |
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Two successive syllables with strong stresses: “stop, thief”
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| Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse bears a close resemblance to the rhythms of ordinary speech, giving poetry a natural feel. Shakespeare’s plays are written primarily in blank verse. |
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| Alternating tetrameter and trimeter, usually iambic and rhyming. Ballad form, which is common in traditional folk poetry and song, enjoyed a revival in the Romantic period with such poems as Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” |
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| Verse that does not conform to any fixed meter or rhyme scheme. Free verse is not, however, loose or unrestricted: its rules of composition are as strict and difficult as traditional verse, for they rely on less evident rhythmic patterns to give the poem shape. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is a seminal work of free verse. |
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| Jerry Renault, a freshman at Trinity High School, has a confrontation with the school gang, The Vigils. Archie Costello, specialize in making assignments that other students have to complete. These assignments vary, depending on the person, and intend to inflict as much psychological injury as possible. Jerry's friend known as The Goober gets an assignment from The Vigils. He sneaks into one of the classrooms at night and unscrews desks, chairs and hinges, leaving the screws in by just a thread. The next day when students come to class, everything collapses and falls apart. The Goober suffers some serious emotional repercussions Jerry gets called to carry out an assignment and he is to refuse selling chocolates at the annual school chocolate sale. |
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Protagonist Adam Farmer is biking from his home in the fictional town of Monument, Massachusetts (based on Leominster, Massachusetts[citation needed]). When he finally arrives at the hospital, he learns that his father is dead, that he never left the hospital, and that he makes the same bike journey daily. The people he meets on the journey are people from the hospital and possess the same traits as they do in the journey.
The book concludes with Brint going over Adam's case, suggesting that instead of interrogating him again, the committee institute a policy which allows for Adam's termination. Otherwise, annual interrogation will occur until Adam "obliterates" of natural causes. |
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The Chocoate War -
The novel's protagonist Jerry Renault is a self-determined and solitary freshman at the private Catholic preparatory high school Trinity. Throughout the novel, in addition to occasional sexual frustration, Jerry frequently ponders basic existential questions, both signified in part by a quotation posted inside his locker: "Do I dare disturb the universe?" from T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." At Trinity, The Vigils, a secret, student-run society, maintain a degree of control by giving their peers "assignments" that range from ridiculous to cruel. Though The Vigils is nominally led by the athletic star boxer John Carter, it is the intelligent and manipulative Archie Costello who exerts the most influence over the group.
When acting headmaster Brother Leon overextends his ambition by committing the students to sell twice as many boxes of chocolates at twice the price in the annual school chocolate sale, he reaches out to Archie and The Vigils to lend support for the effort. Archie is seduced by the promise of having the headmaster's implicit support for the group, and agrees. As if exulting in the potential of his power, Archie assigns Jerry to refuse to sell any chocolate for ten days. Jerry complies with the group, but then persists in his refusal to sell even after the ten days have passed. Both Brother Leon and The Vigils are incensed by Jerry's resistance, which threatens their ability to control the student body. |
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1770-1850 (Romanticism)
Famous British poet associated with ushering the English Romantic Movement
Wrote:
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1882-1941
A British novelist and feminist essayist
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-To the Lighthouse
-The Waves
-Mrs. Dalloway*
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1775-1817 (Romanticism)
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-Sense and Sensibility
-Pride and Prejudice
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1564-1593 (Renaissance)
Spy against English Catholics who were trying to overthrow England
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-Dr. Faustus*
-The Jew of Malta
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1667-1745 (Reformation)
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-A Modest Proposal
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1342-1400 (Middle Ages)
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-Troilus and Criseyde
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1572-1631
-“The Flea”, “The Indifferent”, “Holy Sonnets”
-5 satires, which were mostly elegies
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1564-1616
Most famous playwright who ever lived (romances, comedies, tragedies, histories)
Known for “Shakespearean Sonnet”
Wrote:
-Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, etc…
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8th century
the oldest of the great long poems written in English
reflects Christian tradition
written by a poet who is believed to be Christian
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-Grendel
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1772-1834
Wrote Lyrical Ballads w/ friend, W. Wordsworth. He and Wordsworth started Romantic Movement.
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1564-1616
Most famous playwright who ever lived (romances, comedies, tragedies, histories)
Known for “Shakespearean Sonnet”
Wrote:
-Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, etc…
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8th century
the oldest of the great long poems written in English
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1772-1834
Wrote Lyrical Ballads w/ friend, W. Wordsworth. He and Wordsworth started Romantic Movement.
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-“Tintern Abbey”*
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1608-1674 (Reformation-17th C.)
Wrote:
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-Paradise Regained
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1797-1851
English Romantic novelist
Wrote:
-Frankenstein (was 21 when it was published
-The Last Man
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1552-1559 (Renaissance)
The greatest English poet of his time
Wrote:
-The Faerie Queene*
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1788-1824
Nicknamed “Byronic hero” b/c he was melancholic, defiant
Wrote:
-Don Juan
-Cain
-Childe Harolds Pilgrimmage
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-satire, love |
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Elizabeth Barrett
Browning |
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1806-1861 (Victorian Era)
Wrote poems that were mainly based on her relationship with her husband, Robert Wrote:
-The Sonnets from the Portuguese
-“An Essay on Mind”
-Aurora Leigh
Themes:-blank verse, feminist |
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1882-1941
Irish novelist noted for his experimental use of language
Wrote:
-Ulysses
-Finnegans Wake
-Dubliners
-A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
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1795-1821
English lyric poet, regarded as archetype of Romantic writers
Wrote:
-Aeneid (translated)
-“Ode to a Nightingale” *
-“ode to Autumn”
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-beauty, death, and decay |
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1688-1745
Wrote:
-Essay on Criticism
-Essay on Man
-The Rape of Lock
Themes:
-order of nature
-satire on sexes, especially women
-human condition |
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1809-1892 (Victorian Era)
Chief representative poet of Victorian Era
Wrote:
-“in Memoriam”
-“Maud”
-“Charge of the Light Brigade”
Themes:
-meloncholic, depressed, obscure, and morbid |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896-1940 |
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Celebrated the boom of the 1920’s and crash of 1930’s
Wrote:
-The Great Gatsby |
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Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961 |
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Wrote:
-A Farewell to Arms
-For Whom the Bell Tolls
-The Old Man and the Sea
-The Sun also Rises |
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Committed suicide by gassing herself in kitchen
Wrote:
-The Bell Jar
-Ariel
-The Colossus |
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Was internationally well-known for his depiction of ghetto life and the deprivation of war
Wrote:
-The Red Badge of Courage
-Maggie, A Girl of the Streets |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804-1864) |
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Rounded off the Puritan cycle in American writing
Wrote:
-The Scarlet Letter
-“The Minister’s Black Veil”
-The House of the Seven Gables |
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Paul ZIndel
is a novel about adolescent love. The four main characters—Liz, Sean, Dennis, and Maggie—experience difficulties with their parents, their desires, their expectations of love, and their responsibilities. Dennis and Maggie, like many adolescents, think of themselves as grotesque, and envy Sean and Liz, who, on the surface, seem self-assured. Liz's and Sean's parents—particularly Liz's stepfather and Sean's father—erode their children's ability to love; Dennis's and Maggie's parents are supportive but largely unaware of their children's needs. |
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William Armstrong
A black sharecropper's family is poor and hungry. The father and his dog, Sounder, go hunting each night, but the hunting is poor. The family subsists on fried corn mush, biscuits, and milk gravy until one morning they wake up to the smell of boiling ham. They feast for three days, but finally the sheriff and two of his deputies burst into the cabin and arrest the father. Sounder runs after them, and one of the deputies shoots him! |
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Enid Bagnold
National Velvet" is the story of a 14-year-old girl named Velvet Brown, who rides her horse to victory in the Grand National steeplechase. The horse which Velvet trains and rides in the Grand National is named The Piebald, because it is piebald colour.
The novel focuses on the ability of ordinary persons, particularly women, to accomplish great things. Velvet is a teenager in the late 1920s, living in a small English coastal village in Sussex, dreaming of one day owning many horses. She is a high-strung, nervous child with a delicate stomach. Her mother is a wise, taciturn woman who was once famous for swimming the English Channel; her father is a butcher. |
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THe Member of the Wedding
The main action of the novel takes place over a few days in late August. It tells the story of 12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams, who feels disconnected from the world—an "unjoined person". She dreams of going away with her brother and his bride-to-be on their honeymoon, following them to the Alaskan wilderness. She has no friends in the small Southern town in which she lives. Her mother died giving birth to Frankie and her father is a distant, uncomprehending figure. Her closest companions are the family's African American maid, Berenice Sadie Brown, and her six-year-old cousin, John Henry West.
The novel is more concerned with the psychology of the three main characters and an evocation of the setting than with incident. Frankie does, however, have a brief and troubling encounter with a soldier. Her hopes of going away having been disappointed — her fantasy destroyed — a short coda reveals how her personality has changed. It also recounts the fate of John Henry West, and Berenice Sadie Brown's future plans. |
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SE Hinton
The main action of the novel takes place over a few days in late August. It tells the story of 12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams, who feels disconnected from the world—an "unjoined person". She dreams of going away with her brother and his bride-to-be on their honeymoon, following them to the Alaskan wilderness. She has no friends in the small Southern town in which she lives. Her mother died giving birth to Frankie and her father is a distant, uncomprehending figure. Her closest companions are the family's African American maid, Berenice Sadie Brown, and her six-year-old cousin, John Henry West.
The novel is more concerned with the psychology of the three main characters and an evocation of the setting than with incident. Frankie does, however, have a brief and troubling encounter with a soldier. Her hopes of going away having been disappointed — her fantasy destroyed — a short coda reveals how her personality has changed. It also recounts the fate of John Henry West, and Berenice Sadie Brown's future plans. |
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WIlliam Sleator
A high school girl named Laura grows suspicious when a report of hers appears in mirror writing, and Omar, the weird boy next door, makes it go back to normal. Furthermore, he seems to be parting his hair on a different side than usual. He first refuses to explain what's going on, but after she repeatedly coaxes him, he reveals that he has access to the fourth dimension, where he accidentally "reversed" himself. He eventually allows her to visit it under his supervision, but he warns her that it is extremely dangerous and that he is violating some agreement by letting her in on the secret. She tries to use her access to the higher dimension to impress Pete, a popular boy she wants to go to the school dance with, but after she seems to disappear into thin air and unlock a door from the other side, Pete realizes something funny is going on, and she feels pressured to show him the truth, without Omar's knowledge. When she brings Pete into four-space, they lose their way and end up as the captives of four-dimensional creatures. Unfortunately, she determines that escaping might threaten the very existence of her own world by making the powerful 4-D creatures aware of it. With Omar's help, she finds a safe way out and learns the truth about how he came to know about other dimensions. |
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Lowis Lowry
In a deeply felt, generous and wise voice still bright with love, Rabble Starkey, age 12, tells us about life in her small Appalachian town the year she and her mother, Sweet Ho, move in with the Bigelows.
This is a world where affection, kindness and understanding triumph over every affliction. Mrs. Bigelow, who has a smile on her face even when she sleeps, one day performs a self-styled baptism in the creek and tries to drown Gunther, her baby boy. No matter, we will not hate her for it. It is Mrs. Bigelow's subsequent retreat to a hospital, in fact, that triggers the story, and poor sweet Gunther, who suffers from ringworm, impetigo, diaper rash and poison ivy and is the homeliest child to ever be born in Highriver, thus becomes part of Rabble's new family. Most important is Veronica Bigelow, Rabble's age, with whom Rabble shares a boundless and idyllic love. |
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