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Jonathon Swift
(1667-1745)
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Gulliver's Travels
"A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of the Poor People in Ireland from being a Burden to their Parents or Country; and for making them beneficial to their Publick." |
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Parallel Lives
published essays in Molaria
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William Hazlitt
(1778-1830) |
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"On the Pleasure of Hating" |
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Virginia Woolf
(1882-1941) |
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"Common Reader" series
"The Death of a Moth"
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"On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"
"Civil Disobedience"
"Why I Went to the Woods"
Walden |
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Michel de Montaigne
(father of the essay) |
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Essays (1580, 1584, 1588)
"Of Smells", etc
"How Our Mind Hinders Itself"
"That Our Desire Is Incread By Difficulty"
"That to Philosophize is to Learn to Die" |
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Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
Richard Steele (1672-1745) |
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essays in
Taller and Spectator |
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a poet
Japanese Buddhist monk |
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James Baldwin
(1924-1987) |
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wrote about race
particularly race relations |
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Charlotte's Web
essays in The New Yorker, Harper's magazine
"Once More to the Lake" |
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Where does the word "essay" come from? |
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the French word "essaie" meaning essay
which comes from the French verb "essayer", meaning to try or attempt |
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Name one of George Orwell's famous books and one of his most famous essays |
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"Shooting an Elephant", "A Hanging", "Politics and the English Language"
Animal Farm, 1984 |
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James Thurber is known for what type of writing?
Name an essay or short story in which this is exemplified. |
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Humorous.
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", "The Catbird Seat" |
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Who wrote Poor Richard's Almanac? |
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Who is a confirmed bachelor, and in what essay did he confirm this? |
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Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
"A Bachelor's Complaint" |
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Who is the "Father of the English Essay"? |
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aphorism:
a bit of wisdom in the form of a cliche
ie. "hitch your wagon to a star" |
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Give an example of an aphorism found in Poor Richard's Almanac |
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"haste makes wakes"
"a stitch in time saves nine"
"fish and visitors stink after three days" |
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Give two of the three characteristics of Francis Bacon's essays |
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Paraphrase Henry David Thoreau's famous quote |
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Quote: "If a man cannot keep pace with his companions, perhaps he hears the sound of a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
Paraphrase: If someone doesn't fit in with the "normal", let them be. Let your peers do as they wish and become who they want to become. |
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What made Ralph Waldo Emerson prominent in the development of the essay? |
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His essays grew out of his public speeches, and he wrote in a highly aphoristic style that served as a great moral guide to life. |
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What made Samuel Johnson prominent in the development of the essay? |
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He wrote philosophical and moral essays |
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What made Sei Shonagon prominent in the development of the essay? |
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Sei Shonagon was a Japanese court lady that lived and wrote in the tenth century. |
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