Unit 7-The Compassionate Heart: Emotion Flashcards
Who wrote “What Men Live By”?
Count Leo Tolstoy
Who was the Russian writer and philosopher who was born into an aristocratic family and reared in a world of luxury, was offended by the harshness and inequality of the Russian social system and refused to be an aristocrat, gave up his estate to his wife and children in order to dedicate himself more fully to writing and helping the peasants, and his graphic descriptions of Russian life established him as a major writer of world literature?
Count Leo Tolstoy
What is the indulgence in emotion for its own sake without regard for honestly presenting the truth of human experience and attempts to stimulate emotions directly and draw unmerited feeling?
Sentimentality
Who wrote “Boy at the Window”?
Richard Wilbur
Who was the American poet and teacher who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, translated comedies by the French playwrite Molière, and is still alive today?
Richard Wilbur
Who wrote “The Rainy Day”?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who wrote “Remember”?
Christina Rossetti
Who was the author born in London, England, was a devout Christian whose father was Italian, never married, but instead took care of her invalid mother, and in the last twenty years of her life became an invalid herself?
Christina Rossetti
Who wrote “Sympathy”?
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Who was probably the first black poet to receive national and international praise for his use of dialect whose father escaped from slavery, started writing poetry at the age of six, was encouraged by meeting James Whitcomb Riley, wrote several novels and volumes of poetry and contributed to newspapers, and worked as an assistant in the Library of Congress?
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Who wrote “The Frill”?
Pearl S. Buck
Who was the author who grew up in China with her missionary parents, her most popular novel is “The Good Earth,” and was the first woman to receive both the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize?
Pearl S. Buck
Who was a Scottish clergyman, evangelist, and author, and is best remembered for his book “The Greatest Thing in the World”?
Henry Drummond
Who wrote “The Greatest Thing in the World”?
Henry Drummond
Who was a French poet, novelist, and playwright whose themes dealt with liberty, justice, and democracy, and his two novels which he is best known for are “Les Miserables,” and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”?
Victor Hugo
