The History Of The Essay

Question 1

Plutarch

Answer 1

-46-120
-From Greece
“Parallel Lines”
-Counterpart of Seneca

Question 2

Seneca

Answer 2

• Roman writer, orator, and dramatist
• wrote about common topics
• “Asthma”
• “Noise”
• Grand manner of classical oratory
• Counterpart of Plutarch

Question 3

See Shonagon

Answer 3

• gossip
• 10th century Japanese court lady
• “Pillow Topic”
• journalistic

Question 4

Kenko

Answer 4

• Poet
• Buddhist Monk
• Japanese
• Wrote like a zen painting and with brush strokes
• Fragmented
• Stream of consciousness

Question 5

Montaigne

Answer 5

• French
• Father of Modern Essay
• Made the word “Essay” from “Essais”
• Personal
• Copied Senecas style
• “Give and take”
• Counterpart of Frances Bacon

Question 6

Frances Bacon

Answer 6

• English
• Father of English Essay
• Short Essays
• Formal
• No emotion

Question 7

Thomas Paine

Answer 7

• Political Essays
• American
• “Common Sense”
• “The Crises”

Question 8

Ben Franklin

Answer 8

• “Poor Richard’s Almanck”
• Used Aphorism
• American
• Used funny phrases like “A stitch in time saves nine”

Question 9

Samuel Johnson

Answer 9

• English
• Satirical
• “The Rambler”
• “Adventure”
• “Idler”

Question 10

Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

Answer 10

• A team
• produced satirical writings 3 times a week
• “The tatler”

Question 11

Johnathon Swift

Answer 11

• British
• Satricial
• “Gullivers Travels”
• “A Modest Proposal”

Question 12

Charles Lamb

Answer 12

• Bachelor
• “The Essays of Elia”
• “A bachelor’s complaint”

Question 13

William Hazlitt

Answer 13

• Gusto!
• Direct
• “On the Pleasure of Hating”

Question 14

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer 14

• nature
• public lectures
• “Hitch your wagon to a star”
• “Trust thyself”
• Used Aphorism

Question 15

Henry David Thoreau

Answer 15

• nature
• Left home early in life
• the dude who saw 2 ants fighting
• “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” (referenced by MLK and Gandhi)
• “Walden”

Question 16

George Orwell

Answer 16

"Animal Farm"
"1984"
"Shooting an Elephant"
-Wrote on Imperialism
-Soldier

Question 17

Virginia Woolf

Answer 17

• 1882-1942
• English
• Stream of Consciousness
• “Death of a Moth”
• Relaxed

Question 18

EB White

Answer 18

• “Charolettes Web”
• “Stuart Little”
• “Once More to the Lake”
• Author of Children’s books
• Mr Rogers, basically

Question 19

James Baldwin

Answer 19

• 1924-1987
• Wrote on race relations
• American
• Ex-Patriot
• “Notes from a Native Son”

Question 20

James Thurber

Answer 20

• Humourist
• Drew satirical cartoons
• “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
• “My Life and Hard Times”
• “The Catbird Seat”
• Journalist

Question 21

Joan Didion

Answer 21

• Social Issues in the 60’s
• “Marrying Absurd”
• American

Question 22

Richard Rodriguez

Answer 22

• “heading Into Darkness”
• Bilingual
• wrote on Terrorism
• Master of confessional

Question 23

Frederick Douglass

Answer 23

• Black slave
• -1818-1895
• His master’s wife taught him to read and write
• “Learning to Read and Write”

Question 24

Zora Neale Hurston

Answer 24

• Pride in being a Black Woman
• Wrote about childhood in Florida
• “Their Eyes were Watching God”

Question 25

Martin Luther King

Answer 25

• Prejudice and Injustice
• “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
• “I Have a Dream”

Question 26

Gretel Ehrlich

Answer 26

-Cowboys

Question 27

Maxine Hong Kingston

Answer 27

• Chinese
• Wrote on the place of women in China
• “No Name Woman”

Question 28

M. Scott Momaday

Answer 28

• Grandma was a Native American
• Wrote on Native American traditions and beliefs
• “the Way to Rainy mt”

Question 29

Essaie

Answer 29

French word for Essay

Question 30

Essayer

Answer 30

Verb of “essaie”

-To try or to attempt

Question 31

Thomas Wolfe

Answer 31

“One Life”

• “The Right Stuff”
• American culture
• “the electric kool aid acid test”