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H. EnglishS2 Exam A.

English 3 Honors Semester 2 Exam AUTHORS

PersonWork
Ambrose Bierce "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge"; 1890s Civil War
Arthur Miller Playwright, The Crucible, 1953; McCarthyism
John Hersey Dr. Seuss; Hiroshima, interviewed 6 survivors; Yale / Cambridge / Nobel Prize; humane & compassionate
Ralph Waldo Emmerson Self-Reliance, transcendentalist
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451; loved books / libraries; "lover / poet"; 1953
Randall Jarrell "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"; War experience AF WW2; blunt, dark reflection; famous poem - raw juxtaposition;
Ernest Hemingway "In Another Country" WW1; 6 word memoir; illuminated the human condition; expatriate; somber, realistic / disillusionment; modernist
Herman Melville Moby Dick
Stephen Crane "An Episode of War"; naturalist; Civil War amputee; The Red Badge of Courage, pen name "Johnston Smith," authentic
Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God; Harlem Ren. 1930s; understands the people; anthropologist; strong black woman; bildungsroman
E.E. Cummings "A Poet's Advice to Students" 1955; 1894-1962; Poetry is feeling; modern society killed individual creativity; no punctuation
Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried (Ambush); no pride for work; book rejects categorization; Vietnam (drafted) Purple Heart: written after war 1990
Robert Frost "Mending Wall"; 78 y/o 1952; lilt - rhythmic swing / cadence; humanist - observes people; blank verse
Edwin Arlington Robinson "Richard Cory"
Paul Laurence Dunbar "We Wear the Mask"; Slant rhyme; 1872-1906 Dayton, OH; "First African American to achieve national fame as a writer"; "First black writer to effectively express the life of his people"; son of former slaves; poems/stories
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