Humanities (Ficition) Flashcards
__________ wrote Gulliver’s Travel.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels was written as a satire of human existence, another in a long time of his satirical pieces.
________ created the character of Robinson Cursoe.
Daniel Defoe.
• At sixty, Defoe penned The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, which is considered the first English novel.
A well-known American novelist, ________ wrote The Scarlet Letter.
Nathaniel Hawthorne. Most of his written work concerns evil and human morality, including The House of the Seven Gables, which deals with Puritanism.
Author of Last of the Mohicans, _________ grew to become a cynic of American society.
James Fenimore Cooper. last of the Mohicans is second in a group of novels called The Leatherstocking Tales, which begins with The Deerslayer.
Both an author and a poet, ________ wrote the Raven and The Fall of the House of Usher.
Edger Allen Poe
A renowned American author, ________’s greatest work was Moby Dick.
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.
________’s first published novels were Oliver Twist and Nicolas Nickleby.
Charles Dickens
______’s real name was Samuel Clemens.
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.
The English author _________ wrote The Nigger of Narcissus, The Secret Agent, and Heart of Darkness.
Joseph Conrad
_______ wrote Call of the Wild.
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.
The 1949 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature was _______. Most of his novels are set in Yoknapatawpha county.
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.
Born in 1896, _________ and his wife Zelda became high society during the time of Prohibition after his first novels became smashing successes.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. His greatest works include The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and The Damned, and Tender is the Night.
The Irish writer _______ wrote Ulysses, based largely on Homer’s Odyssey.
James Joyce.
________ won a Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath.
John Steinbeck
One of ________’s first novels was In Our Time, a collection of short stories.
Ernest Hemingway.
The ________ sister originally published their works as Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.
Bronte. Their identities were revealed after the publication of Charlotte’s Shirley, much to the public’s surprise.
______ Bronte wrote Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hell.
Anne.
_________, part of a three-sibling writing trio, wrote Jane Eyre.
Charlotte Bronte
_______ Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights.
Emily. Wuthering Heights is a classic love story about Catherine Earnshaw and Gypsy Heathcliff.
_________ did not publish Sense and Sensibility until she was in her late thirties, despite having finished the novel much earlier.
Jane Austen. Writing books about high society ladies was Austen’s forte; her other works include a Pride and Prejudice and Emma.
A fan of stream of consciousness, _______ wrote the Waves.
Virginia Woolf. Along with writing from multiple consciousness, Woolf was also excellent at critical essays.
Don Quixote was considered the first western ______.
Novel
John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is a(n) _______ of religious salvation.
Allegory. When a story as a whole represents something else entirely through extensive use of symbolism, it is known as an allegory.
____ _______ reigned in Camolot and frequently consulted his court magician, Merlin, for guidance.
King Arthur’s legendary tales developed from Celtic mythology.
