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Parable realistic and has a moral
Legend exaggerated story about people
literary sub genre of a story that involves gods and
Myth
heroes, usually expressing a cultures ideals
language of the people, does not need a moral, and
Folktale
main purpose is to entertain
element of magic, usually follows a pattern, and
Fairytales presents an "ideal", may contain "magic 3" or
"stereotyping"
non-realistic, has a moral, and animals are often the
Fable
main character
Aesop- "The Fox and the Crane", "The Fox and the
Ex. Fable
Crow"
Charles Perrault, Grimm Brothers, Joseph Jacobs,
Fairy Tale Authors
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jorgen Moe
humorous folktale in which the reader can outsmart
Noodlehead Story
character(s)
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18th and 19th centuries that began in Germany and
England, emphasized imagination, fancy, freedom,
Romanticism
emotion, wildness, beauty of the natural world, rights
of individuals, and pastoral life.
movement in literature during the 19th century in
France, reacted against the standards of realism,
Symbolism
emphasized being able to bend the material world of
the 5 senses, poetic expression of complex feelings
Symbolism Authors Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud
movement in literature in the beginning of the 20th
Surrealism century. element of surprise, unexpected
juxtapositions, and non sequitur
Andre Breton, influenced by Freud's free association
Surrealism Authors work, dream analysis, and the unconscious to free
imagination
19th and 20th centuries that emphasized individual
Existentialism existence, freedom, and choice, believed that there is
not objective rational basis for moral choice
Soren Keirkegaard, Blaise Pascal, Friedrich Neitzsche,
Existentialism authors
Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre
American novelist best known as author of the novel
Louisa May Alcott Little Women (1868) Wrote about growing up poor in
New England during the Civil War
American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist,
raised in NY and NJ; style and technique: naturalism,
Stephen Crane realism, impressionism; themes: ideals v. realities,
spiritual crisis, fears. wrote Red Badge of Courage
(1895) about a soldier in Union Army
An English novelist wrote Robinson Crusoe (1791),
sailor shipwrecked on a tropical island. A commentary
Daniel Defoe
on what it took to survive in the 18th century:
entrepreneurial ingenuity and the ability to improvise.
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American poet. Born to a successful family with
strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted
Emily Dickinson
and reclusive life, "Because I could not stop for
Death"
(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he
escaped slavery and became a leading African
Frederick Douglas American spokesman and writer. He published his
biography, and founded the abolitionist newspaper,
the North Star.
American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of
the Transcendentalist movement. Wrote "self reliance"
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888), He was against slavery and stressed self-
reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence,
and freedom.
Dutch-Jewish girl who, with other Jews, hid from the
Nazis from 1942 to 1944; she was found and sent to a
Anne Frank
concentration camp where she died. Her diary was 1st
published in 1952: "Diary of a Young Girl"
American writer best known for her young-adult
S. E. Hinton novels set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders
(1967)
American author, political activist, lecturer; first deaf-
Helen Keller blind person to earn B.A. She wrote The Story of My
Life (1903) and The Frost King (1892).
American naturalists who achieved a degree of
popular success with his adventure stories The Call of
Jack London
the Wild (1903) and The Sea Wolf (1904), celebrating
the triumph of brute force and the will to survive.
English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work
is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice,
George Orwell
opposition to totalitarianism, and commitment to
democratic socialism. 1984 (1949), Animal Farm (1945)
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