Essay Writers ✏️✏️ Flashcards

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Roman writer, philosopher, dramatist, and orator who wrote about asthma and noise

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Seneca

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Greek writer who wrote parallel lives

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Plutarch

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Japanese writer. Court lady. 10th century.

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Sei shonagon

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Poet, Buddhist monk, brief essays much like Zen paintings

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Yoshida Kenko

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Wrote modern-day books of longer and more elaborate essays. About virtue and vice, customs and behavior, and children and cannibals

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Montaigne

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Statesman, philosopher, scientist, essayist. Politically active, intellectually prominent, uneasy alliance of tradition and innovation.

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Frances bacon

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Wrote essays. Political persuasion in “The crisis”

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Thomas Paine

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Autobiography. Poor Richards almanac. “Haste makes waste.” “A stitch in time saves nine.” “Fish and visitors stink after three days.”

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Benjamin Franklin

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Philosophical and moral periodical essays. Rambler. Idler. Adventure. What about gravity and sobriety.

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Samuel Johnson

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Tattler and spectator. Jointly wrote and published.

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Addison and Steele

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Essays of Elia and more essays of Elia. “a bachelors complaint”

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Charles Lamb

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“on the pleasure of hating” Customary gusto.

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William Hazlitt

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Satire Gullivers travels. Wrote essays. “a modest proposal for preventing the children of the poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country; and for making that beneficial to their public” longest title of a satire.

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Jonathan Swift

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Essays grow out of public lectures. Aphoristic style. Nuggets of wisdom. Hitch your wagon to a star. Trust thyself. Give all to love. Wrote about nature.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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New Englander. Wrote about nature. “On the duty of civil disobedience.” Walden.

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Thoreau

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Wrote animal Farm, 1984, A hanging, shooting an elephant, politics and the English language.

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George Orwell

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“Common reader.” “The death of the moth.”

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Virginia Woolf

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Fiction novelist who wrote children’s books also wrote charlottes web. “Once more to the lake.”

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Wrote about race and relations in America. Black man writer.

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James Baldwin

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Humorist. Wrote satirical cartoons. Journalist. “Secret life of Walter Mitty”.

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James Thurber

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“Marrying absurd “

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Wrote about terrorism, being raised, being bilingual, and living in San Francisco.

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Richard Rodriguez

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Wrote about the struggle for literacy as a black slave

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Frederick Douglass

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Female African-American writer who wrote in the Harlem Renaissance Period. “Their eyes were watching God”

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Zora Neal Hurston

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About racial prejudice, injustice, and what must be done to establish and ensure racial equality
Martin Luther King Junior
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Wrote about what it means to be a cowboy
Gretel Ehrlich
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Wrote about power and place of gender in traditional China. Tells the story of a man transformed into a woman.
Maxine Hong Kingston
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Kiona Indian grandmother. Reflects cultural values of tribe and it's native American traditions.
M. Scott momaday
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French for "attempts"
Essaie/ essayer
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Short witty phrase. "Early bird catches the worm".
Aphorism