Chatper 2: Literature And Its Authors Flashcards
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What is action and adventure fiction?
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This means that there will be action based on the character’s natural instincts and reflexes, as well as problem solving. Can be violent or nonviolent.
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What is alternate history fiction?
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Look at a historical event and rewrites the story giving an alternate ending from what originally took place.
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What is anthology fiction?
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A collection of works. Can be short stories, epic poems, poetry or other similar collections of writing.
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What is children’s fiction?
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Books that are targeted towards children. Typically include pictures and other things that engage children.
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What is classics fiction?
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Stories that have stood the test of time. Including works like black beauty, little red riding hood, and beauty and the beast.
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What is comic book fiction?
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Composed of pictures that make up a story. Include conversations between characters and side notes about what is going on.
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What is coming of age fiction?
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Targeted towards tween readers. Have a theme of growing up.
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What is crime fiction?
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Have a criminal act and a police presence, and they involve some sort of criminal activity. Good guy, bad guy act.
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What is drama fiction?
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Refers to movies, tv shows, plays, novellas, and other live action literary works.
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What is fable fiction?
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Have a moral that is taught through the use of animals who take on human characteristics. For example, the tortoise and the hare.
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What is fairy tale fiction?
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Magical settings for children’s stories. Include fairies, pixies, trolls, talking animals and other mystical creatures.
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What is fantasy fiction?
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Features supernatural elements or the use of magic. Can take place in the real world beneath the surface of what we already see, or they can be otherworldly.
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What are graphic novels?
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Similar to comic books but have much longer, detailed stories that are told mainly through pictures and dialogue in the artwork.
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What is historical fiction?
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From history and puts a fictitious spin on things that happened in those individual’s lives - things that could have occurred during historical events.
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What is horror fiction?
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All about fear, scaring the reader and setting the scene for a gruesome story line.
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What is mystery fiction?
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Based on an occurrence and wanting to understand what happened or led to those events. Start off with the lead being missing or taken.
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What is mythology fiction?
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Based on myths that are created to explain things. Most common, Greek mythology. Greek gods and how they worked with people and impacted different aspects of life.
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What is paranormal romance?
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Refers to romance and romantic story lines that typically occur between a human and nonhuman, such as a werewolf or a vampire.
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What is a picture book?
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Containing few words and have brightly colored pictures to engage small children.
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What is poetry?
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Can include ballads, blank verse, rhyming poetry, free verse, elegies, narrative poetry, haiku, limericks, lyric poetry, odes, pastoral poetry, soliloquies, sonnets, villanelles.
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What is realistic fiction?
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Refer to events that seem like they could take place in our hometowns, neighborhoods and everyday lives.
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What is romance?
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Include stories that involve falling in love, finding love after heartbreak, trying to protect yourself from heartbreak or feelings of lust and love
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What is satire?
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Refers to performing arts in which fiction, nonfiction, vices, follies, shortcomings, ridicule, shaming and society Al norms are turned into humor of one form or another.
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What is science fiction?
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Refers to stories that use a scientific basis and add a fictitious spin.
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What is suspense fiction?
Keeping its readers on the edge of their seats throughout the book. Have constant action, which generates suspense.
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What are tall tales?
Short stories with an element of unbelievability. One tall tale is babe the blue ox. Another is Johnny Appleseed.
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What is a thriller?
Includes fictional tales that involve dark, engrossing and suspenseful plots.
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What is western fiction?
Refers to things like exploring the west, cowboys and Indians, pioneer days, panning for gold and other similar themes.
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What is young adult literature?
Engaging towards tweens and teens in reading by choosing topics that are interesting to them in order to pique their interest in reading. A common theme is coming of age.
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What are some key types of nonfiction literary works?
Art, architecture, autobiographies, biographies, business, crafts, cookbooks, diaries, dictionaries, economics, educational instruction, encyclopedias, essays, guides, hobbies, heath and fitness, home and garden, humor, journals, leisure, math, memoirs, narrative nonfiction, philosophy, prayer, new age, religion and spirituality, reviews, science, self-help, speeches, sports, textbooks, travel, true crime.
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What should you consider before reading a text?
Skim the text first. Formulate questions you hope to answer along the way. Note words or phrases you do not know so you can find the definition. Identity important information like tone, pov, theme.
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What should you consider while reading a text?
Find answers to the initial questions or questions you did not realize you wanted to ask. Identify the main idea and find supporting ideas in regard to the main idea.
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What should you consider after reading a text?
Be able to summarize what you have read, identify key information and outlines how the story unfolded.
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Who wrote the fiction story “The Color Purple”?
Alice Walker
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Who wrote the drama story “Dutchman”?
Amiri Baraka
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Who wrote the poetry “To my dear loving husband” “the author to her book” “the flesh and the spirit” “Verses upon the burning of our house” “in reference to her children” “23 June 1659”?
Anne Bradstreet
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Who wrote the fiction stories “A child called it” “A man named Dave: a story of triumph and forgiveness” “The lost boy: a foster child’s search for true love of a family”?
Dave Pelzer
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Who wrote the fiction stories “the cat in the hat” “oh the places you’ll go” “how the grinch stole Christmas”?
Dr. Seuss
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Who wrote the poetry “the raven” “to Helen” “ulalume” “a dream within a dream” “the bells” “sonnet-to science” “eldorado” “the haunted palace” “the city in the sea” “Annabel Lee”?
Edgar Allen Poe
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Who wrote the drama stories “the zoo story” “who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf” “a delicate balance” “seascape” “three tall women”?
Edward Albee
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Who wrote the fiction “the westing game” “figgs & phantoms”?
Ellen Raskin
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Who wrote the poetry “i taste a liquor never brewed” “success is counted in sweetest” “wild nights-wild nights” “i felt a funeral, in my brain” “hope’ is the thing with feathers” “a bird, came down the walk” “because I could not stop for death” “my life had stood - a loaded gun” “tell all the truth but tell it slant”?
Emily Dickinson
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Who wrote the fiction stories “the sun also rises” “a farewell to arms” “for whom the bell tolls” “the old man and the sea”?
Ernest Hemingway
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Who wrote the drama stories “long day’s journey into night” “beyond the horizon” “Anna Christie” “strange interlude” “ah wilderness” “the iceman cometh”?
Eugene O’Neill
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Who wrote the nonfiction story “my bondage and my freedom”?
Frederick Douglass
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Who wrote the fiction story “The great gatsby?”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Who wrote the fiction story “to kill a mockingbird”?
Harper Lee
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Who wrote the fiction story “Uncle Tom’s Cabin?”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Who wrote the nonfiction story “the story of my life”?
Helen Keller
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Who wrote the fiction story “moby dick”?
Herman Melville
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Who wrote the fiction stories “the call of the wild” “white fang” “martin Eden”?
Jack London
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Who wrote the fiction story “the catcher in the rye”?
J.D. Salinger
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Who wrote the fiction story “tiger lily”?
Jodi Lynn Anderson
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Who wrote the fiction stories “the grapes of wrath” “of mice and men” “east of Eden”?
John Steinbeck
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Who wrote the poetry “the weary blues” “let America be America again” “the big sea” “montage of a dream deferred”, the fiction stories “not without laughter” “the ways of white folks” and the nonfiction story “the best of simple”?
Langston Hughes
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Who wrote the fiction story “the giver”?
Lois Lowry
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Who wrote the drama story “a raisin in the sun”?
Lorraine Hansberry
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Who wrote the fiction story “little women”?
Louisa May Alcott
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Who wrote the fiction story “gone with the wind”?
Margarett Mitchell
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Who wrote the fiction stories “the adventures of huckleberry Finn” “the adventures of Tom Sawyer”?
Mark Twain
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Who wrote the nonfiction story “i know why the caged bird sings”?
Maya Angelou
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Who wrote the nonfiction story “tuesdays with Morrie” and the fiction stories “the five people you meet in heaven” “for one more day” “the time keeper”?
Mitch Albom
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Who wrote the fiction story “the scarlet letter”?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Who wrote the poetry “in the bear’s house” and the fiction/poetry “in the presence of the sun”, and the poetry “the gourd dancer” and the fiction stories “house made of dawn” “circle of wonder:a Native American Christmas story” and the drama “the indolent boys”?
N. Scott Momaday
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Who wrote the poetry “his excellency general Washington” “a hymn to the evening” “the right honorable William, earl of Dartmouth” “on being brought from Africa to America” “A farewell to America” “on virtue” “on imagination” “to S.M. A young African painter on seeing his works”?
Phillis Wheatley
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Who wrote the fiction story “invisible man”?
Ralph Ellison
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Who wrote the poetry “the road not taken”?
Robert Frost
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Who wrote the drama stories “cowboys” “the rock garden” “true west” “buried child” “fool for love” “curse of the starving class”?
Sam Shepard Rogers III
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Who wrote the fiction story “island of the blue dolphins”?
Scott O’Dell
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Who wrote the fiction stories “marvel comics” “fantastic four” “the amazing spider man”?
Stan Lee
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Who wrote the fiction story “the bell jar” and the poetry “the colossus and other poems” and “Ariel”?
Sylvia Plath
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Who wrote the drama stories “the glass menagerie” and “a streetcar named desire”?
Tennessee Williams
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Who wrote the drama stories “our town” “the skin of our teeth” and the fiction stories “the bridge of San Luis Rey” “the Cabala” “the woman of Andros” “heaven’s my destination” “ides of march” “the eighth day” “theophilus north”?
Thornton Wilder
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Who wrote the fiction “the bluest eye” “song of Solomon” “beloved” and “a mercy”?
Toni Morrison
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Who wrote the nonfiction stories “in cold blood” and “breakfast at Tiffany’s”?
Truman Capote
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Who wrote the poetry “leaves of grass” “drum-taps” “song of myself” “o captain my captain” “i sing the body electric” “i hear America singing” “when lilacs las in the dooryard bloom’d” “a noiseless patient spider” “whoever you are holding me now in hand” “o me o life”?
Walt Whitman
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Who wrote the fiction “Rip Van Winkle” and “the legend of sleepy hollow”?
Washington Irving
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Who wrote the fiction stories “absalom, absalom” “the sound and the fury” “as I lay dying” “light in August” “a rose of Emily”?
William Faulkner
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Who wrote the fiction story “a clockwork orange”?
Anthony Burgess
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Who wrote the drama “top girls”?
Caryl Churchill
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Who wrote the fiction stories “a tale of two cities” “Oliver Twist” “a Christmas carol” “Nicholas Nickleby” “David Copperfield” “great expectations” “bleak house”?
Charles Dickens
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Who wrote the fiction story “Jane Eyre”?
Charlotte Brontë
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Who wrote the fiction story “the chronicles of narnia”?
C.S. Lewis
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Who wrote the fiction story “Robinson Crusoe”?
Daniel Defoe
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Who wrote the fiction stories “sons and lovers” “women in love” and “lady Chatterley’s lover”?
D.H. Lawrence
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Who wrote the nonfiction story “going home”?
Doris Lessing
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Who wrote the poetry “how do i love thee (sonnet 43)”?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Who wrote the fiction story “withering heights”?
Emily Brontë
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Who wrote the fiction stories “a room with a view” “Howard’s end” “a passage to India”?
E.M. Forster
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Who wrote the stories “Middlemarch” “Silas Marner” “The mill on the floss”?
George Eliot
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Who wrote the fiction stories “nineteen eighty-four” and “animal farm”?
George Orwell
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Who wrote the fiction stories “pride and prejudice” “sense and sensibility” “Mansfield park” “Emma” “northanger Abbey”?
Jane Austin
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Who wrote the fiction story “Harry Potter”?
J.K. Rowling
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Who wrote the poetry “Paradise lost”?
John Milton
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Who wrote the fiction story “Gulliver’s travels”?
Jonathan Swift
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Who wrote the fiction story “heart of darkness”?
Joseph Conrad
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Who wrote the fiction stories “the lord of the rings” and “the hobbit”?
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Who wrote the fiction story “the wind in the willows”?
Kenneth Grahame
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Who wrote the fiction story “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”?
Lewis Carroll
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Who wrote the fiction story “Frankenstein”?
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Who wrote the drama “noises off”?
Michael Frayn
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Who wrote the fiction story “stardust”?
Neil Gaiman
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Who wrote the drama “the importance of being earnest”?
Oscar Wilde
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Who wrote the fiction story “the golden compass”?
Philip Pullman
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Who wrote the fiction story “Mary Poppins” and the nonfiction stories “Mary Poppins Comes Back” “What Bee Knows: Reflections on myth, symbol, and story”?
P.L. Travers
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Who wrote the story “Charlie and the chocolate factory”?
Roald Dahl
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Who wrote the poetry “a red, red rose”?
Robert Burns
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Who wrote the fiction story “midnights children”?
Salman Rushdie
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Who wrote the drama “waiting for Godot”?
Samuel Beckett
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Who wrote the poem “the rime of the ancient Mariner”?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Who wrote the poetry “the shadow on the stone” “the dead man walking”?
Thomas Hardy
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Who wrote the nonfiction story “seven pillars of wisdom”?
T.E. Lawrence
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Who wrote the poetry “the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?
T.S. Eliot
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Who wrote the nonfiction story “testament of youth”?
Vera Brittain
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Who wrote the fiction story “Mrs. Dalloway” and the fiction “The waves” and the nonfiction “A Room of One’s Own”?
Virginia Woolf
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Who wrote the drama “the way of the world”?
William Congreve
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Who wrote the fiction “lord of the flies”?
William Golding
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Who wrote the drama stories “Romeo and Juliet” “hamlet” and “Macbeth”?
William Shakespeare
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Who wrote the fiction story “vanity fair”?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Who wrote the fiction story “Aesop’s Fables”?
Aesop
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Who wrote the fiction story “the joy luck club”?
Amy Tan
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Who wrote the poetry “Waltzing Matilda”?
Andrew Barton “Banjo Paterson
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Who wrote the nonfiction story “the diary of a young girl”?
Anne Frank
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Who wrote the poetry “the epic of gilgamesh”?
Anonymous
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Who wrote the poetry “beowulf”?
Anonymous
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Who wrote the poetry “Ramayana”?
Anonymous
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Who wrote the fiction “the little prince” and “wind, sand, and stars”?
Antoine de Saint Exupery
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Who wrote the drama “the seagull”?
Anton Chekhov
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Who wrote the drama “miss Julie”?
August Strindberg
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Who wrote the fiction story “doctor zhivago”?
Boris Pasternak
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Who wrote the drama “mother courage and her children”?
Bertolucci Brecht
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Who wrote the fiction “things fall apart”?
Chinua Achebe
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Who wrote the nonfiction story “the Analects of Confucius”?
Confucius
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Who wrote the poetry “the divine comedy”?
Dante Alighieri
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Who wrote the nonfiction story “beyond the veil”?
Fatima Mernissi
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Who wrote the poetry “Gypsy Ballads”?
Federico Garcia Lorca
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Who wrote the fiction story “Crime and Punishment”?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Who wrote the fiction story “one hundred years of solitude”?
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Who wrote the drama story “A doll’s house”?
Henrik Isben
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Who wrote the fiction stories “the odyssey” and “the Iliad”?
Homer
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Who wrote the fiction story “Ulysses”?
James Joyce
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Who wrote the drama “Faust”?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Who wrote the nonfiction “A modest proposal”?
Jonathan Swift
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Who wrote the nonfiction story “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”?
Jung Chang
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Who wrote the poetry “The Prophet”?
Khalil Gibran
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Who wrote the fiction “Jacob have I loved”?
Katherine Paterson
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Who wrote the poetry “Ancient eternal and immortal spirit”?
Kostis Palamas
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Who wrote the drama “the workhouse ward”?
Lady Gregory
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Who wrote the fiction story “war and peace” and “Anna Karenina”?
Leo Tolstoy
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Who wrote the drama “six characters in search of an author”?
Luigi Pirandello
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Who wrote the nonfiction “India of my dreams”?
Mahatma Gandhi
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Who wrote the fiction “in search of lost time”?
Marcel Proust
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Who wrote the fiction “the handmaid’s tale”?
Margaret Atwood
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Who wrote the poetry “Kaleidoscope”?
Maria Elena Cruz Varela
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Who wrote the fiction “the book thief”?
Markus Zusak
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Who wrote the fiction “Don Quixote”?
Miguel de Cervantes
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Who wrote the drama “tartuffe”?
Moliere
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Who wrote the nonfiction “long walk to freedom”?
Nelson Mandela
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Who wrote the fiction “Zorba the Greek”?
Nikos Kazantzakis
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Who wrote the poetry “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”?
Omar Khayyam
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Who wrote the nonfiction “Leo Tolstoy: Flight from Paradise”?
Pavel Basinski
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Who wrote the fiction story “the good earth”?
Pearl S. Buck
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Who wrote the drama “Antigone”?
Sophocles
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Who wrote the poetry “character”?
Taslima Nasrin
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Who wrote the nonfiction “man’s search for meaning”?
Victor Frankl
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Who wrote the fiction “Lolita”?
Vladimir Nabokov
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Who wrote the fiction “Candide”?
Voltaire
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Who wrote the drama “the Bhagavad Gita”?
Vyasa
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Who wrote the drama “the miracle worker”?
William Gibson
