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__________ wrote Gulliver’s Travel.

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Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels was written as a satire of human existence, another in a long time of his satirical pieces.

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________ created the character of Robinson Cursoe.

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Daniel Defoe.

• At sixty, Defoe penned The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, which is considered the first English novel.

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A well-known American novelist, ________ wrote The Scarlet Letter.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne. Most of his written work concerns evil and human morality, including The House of the Seven Gables, which deals with Puritanism.

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Author of Last of the Mohicans, _________ grew to become a cynic of American society.

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James Fenimore Cooper. last of the Mohicans is second in a group of novels called The Leatherstocking Tales, which begins with The Deerslayer.

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Both an author and a poet, ________ wrote the Raven and The Fall of the House of Usher.

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Edger Allen Poe

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A renowned American author, ________’s greatest work was Moby Dick.

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Herman Melville. The hardships he faced as a whaler in his early twenties inspired a collection of novels based on the hardships faced at sea.

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________’s first published novels were Oliver Twist and Nicolas Nickleby.

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Charles Dickens

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______’s real name was Samuel Clemens.

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Mark Twain. Considered the greatest American authors of all time, Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and the Price and the Pauper.

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The English author _________ wrote The Nigger of Narcissus, The Secret Agent, and Heart of Darkness.

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Joseph Conrad

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_______ wrote Call of the Wild.

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Jack London. His stories largely deal with animals and nature, and Call of the Wild is considered one of the best pieces of animal literature in existence.

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The 1949 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature was _______. Most of his novels are set in Yoknapatawpha county.

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William Faulkner. Used a lot of symbolism throughout his novels, the most well-known include The Sound and the Fury, and As I Lay Dying.

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Born in 1896, _________ and his wife Zelda became high society during the time of Prohibition after his first novels became smashing successes.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald. His greatest works include The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and The Damned, and Tender is the Night.

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The Irish writer _______ wrote Ulysses, based largely on Homer’s Odyssey.

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James Joyce.

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________ won a Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath.

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John Steinbeck

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One of ________’s first novels was In Our Time, a collection of short stories.

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Ernest Hemingway.

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The ________ sister originally published their works as Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.

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Bronte. Their identities were revealed after the publication of Charlotte’s Shirley, much to the public’s surprise.

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______ Bronte wrote Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hell.

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Anne.

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_________, part of a three-sibling writing trio, wrote Jane Eyre.

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Charlotte Bronte

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_______ Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights.

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Emily. Wuthering Heights is a classic love story about Catherine Earnshaw and Gypsy Heathcliff.

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_________ did not publish Sense and Sensibility until she was in her late thirties, despite having finished the novel much earlier.

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Jane Austen. Writing books about high society ladies was Austen’s forte; her other works include a Pride and Prejudice and Emma.

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A fan of stream of consciousness, _______ wrote the Waves.

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Virginia Woolf. Along with writing from multiple consciousness, Woolf was also excellent at critical essays.

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Don Quixote was considered the first western ______.

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Novel

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John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is a(n) _______ of religious salvation.

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Allegory. When a story as a whole represents something else entirely through extensive use of symbolism, it is known as an allegory.

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____ _______ reigned in Camolot and frequently consulted his court magician, Merlin, for guidance.

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King Arthur’s legendary tales developed from Celtic mythology.

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________’s second novel, The Red Badge of Courage trails a young man through hardships of fighting in the a Civil War.

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Stephen Crane.

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A close confident to Jean-Paul Satre, existentialist ________’s most widely acclaimed work was The Second Sex.

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Simone de Beauvoir

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Asian-American author Amy Tan penned ___ ____ _____, a best-selling novel about the novel multi-generational struggles of an Asian family in America.

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Joy Luck Club

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A man’s lifelong, desperate pursuit for his one true love, Daisy, is chronicled in _____ ______.

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Great Gatsby. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel follows Jay Gatsby as he devotes his entire life to just being able to see Daisy one more time.

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The classic ____ ______ is narrated by he orphan pip, who falls in love with the lovely Stella.

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Great Expectations. Written by Charles Dickens, one main theme of the novel is that good deed can pay off in the end.

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Author of the novel The Spot of the Gods and the poetry collection Lyrics of Lowly life, __________ was the child of slave parents.

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Paul Laurence Dunbar. He also wrote short stories like Folks from Dizie, about the lives of Southern black families.

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_______ wrote The Martian Chronicles, which was made into a television miniseries in the 1980s.

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Ray Bradbury

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_______ was known for her satirical writing style, particularly in the works The Oasis (1949) and The Group (1963).

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Mary McCarthy

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The French writer _______’s best works are thought to be The Haunted Pool and The Master Bell-Ringer.

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George Sand

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________ is credited win writing Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

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Jules Verne

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Alexandre Dumas wrote ____ ______ _____, about three revolutionaries who bond together and and save the King.

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The Three Musketeers. He also wrote a sequel—Twenty Years Later—and The Count of Monte Cristo.

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The author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame is ________.

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Victor Hugo. His other great work is Les Miserables.

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Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, ______ married her husband Percy, a poet, at the age of 16.

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Mary Shelley. She authored Frankenstein, her most known work, at the age of 18.

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_______ authored the first great feminist piece, A Vindication of the Rights of Women.

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Mary Wollstonecraft. She died days after giving birth to her daughter, Mary Shelley, who later went on to write Frankenstein.

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Niccolo Machiavelli is thought to have based his written work ___ _______ on Cesare Borgia.

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The Prince.

• The Prince is a guideline for which a price could rise and maintain power over his country. Essentially, the guidelines encourage tyranny and manipulation.

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_________ published both The Tropic of Cancer and The Tropic of Capricorn.

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Henry Miller

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When a story is told from the perspective of a character in the plotline, it is being told in _____ _____.

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First person

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Aldous Huxley’s _____ ______ ______ is similar to Orwell’s 1984 in that it takes place in a predicted future Brother society.

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Brave New World

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1984 was written by ________.

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George Orwell

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_______ wrote song of Solomon.

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Toni Morrison

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The Catcher in the Rye, depicting an impoverished school boy getting by on his wits alone, is an example of a _______ work.

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Picaresque

• Generated from Spain, picaresque pieces revolve around a character of low social status and their ability to overcome great odds through their abilities.

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The majority of _________’s short stories involve the Glass family.

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J.D Salinger.

Best known for writing Catcher in the Rye, Salinger’s short stories include collections Nine stories, Franny and Zooey and Carpenters.

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Cervante’s Don Quixote is a ______ of chivalry.

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Parody

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_______ romances were usually horror stories set in medieval times.

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Gothic. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is a Gothic Romance, a genre originally influenced by are get Allen Poe and even Charlotte herself.

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A Lesson Before Dying was written by _________.

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Ernest Gaines.

• The book is about a young black man sentenced to death by electrocution for a crime he did not commit—and how his lawyer helps him come to grips with taking his final breath.

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________ wrote A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

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Betty Smith

• The story is follows young Francie Nolan as she struggles to survive and stand tall—much like Tree of Heaven that grows from cemented roots—amidst difficult family circumstances.

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_____ ___ ____ _____ is about a group of young boys stranded on an island, and how violence and greed corrupts the society they form.

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Lord of the Flies

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____ ____ __ _____ involves the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch and the trials her hometown faces during the prosecution of a young black man for rape.

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To Kill A Mockingbird.

• Harper Lee chooses to tell a serious, adult story from the eyes of a young girl trying to understand where she fits within the larger picture.

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Adulterers in ____ _____ ______ had to wear an embroidered “A” on their clothing.

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The Scarlet Letter.

• Nathaniel Hawthorne’s work explores the life of Hester Pynne, forever forced to bear the stigma of society for bearing a child outside of wedlock.

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Many of John Steinbeck’s novels take place in the _____ Valley.

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Salinas.

• Steinbeck’s hometown is Salinas Valley.

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Billy Pilgrim is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore in _________.

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Slaughterhouse five.

• Kurt Vonnegut follows Billy’s character throughout his life, detailing his experiences as a war prisoner.

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______ ______ is a war satire by Joseph Heller.

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Catch 22

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________ wrote the book Clockwork Orange.

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Anthony Burgess

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is written by ________.

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Ken Kesey

• Both a comedy and a tragedy, this novel follows the lives of patients in a mental hospital, and serves as an allegory for pressing oneself versus the greater good of society.

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Narrated by Sal Paradise, ____ _____ ______ is one of Jack Kernouac’s most well known works.

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On The Road. This book follows Sal Paradise on a cross-country journey, exploring the basics and intricacies of life itself.

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John Steinbeck explored the failures of America to cope during the Great Depression in his book ____ _____ _______.

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The Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for this work, which questions governments, human will, and even the very basics of capitalism.

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______ wrote a Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

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Harriet Beecher Stove.

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a chronology of a black person’s journey from slavery through the underground to freedom.

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Upton Sinclair’s _____ _______ explores life, death, and sanitation in an American meat-packing plant.

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The Jungle