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Idioms and Literature

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What's the movement Zora Neale Hurston belonged to?

The Harlem Renaissance

Say 3 authors belonging to the Lost Generation

Ernest Hemingway - Francis Scott Fitzgerald - John Steinbeck

Who wrote Jane Eyre?

Charlotte Brontë

Who wrote The Great Gatsby?

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Which author was Canadian?

Margaret Atwood

Say TWO writers dealing with FEMINISM + RACE

Toni Morrison - Zora Neale Hurston

Why is Oscar Wilde more known for? A) Playwright B) Poet C) Novelist D) Essayist

Playwright

Say THREE authors who committed suicide

Virginia Woolf - Sylvia Plath - Ernest Hemingway

Which author rejected marriage and lived out of the social standards?

Jane Austen

Say THREE works by William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet - Hamlet - Othello - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Julius Caesar - SONNETS - King Lear - As You Like it - The Merchant of Venice

Say THREE authors whose works have been adapted to TV / Films

Margaret Atwood, F.S.Fitzgerald, Shakespeare, Dickens, Hemingway, Steinbeck...

Which author was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft?

Mary Shelley

What's Mary Shelley most famous work?

Frankenstein AKA. The Modern Prometheus

Say THREE works by Charles Dickens:

Hard Times - Oliver Twist - Tale of Two Cities - Great Expectations - A Christmas Carol

Say 8 female writers seen in class:

Zora N. Hurston, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Sylvia Plath, Charlotte Brontë, Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen

Say TWO life facts about Charles Bukowski

He was a postman - He was abused by his parents - He was a drunkard - He used to have bad mood - He was a misogynistic