Penchiclidyne

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Due in class on Tues. Sept. 17

Find the answers to these questions. You may work by yourself or with a partner. Do keyword searches on the internet. After you find and record the answer please also list the website address at which you found the info.

1. Name two novels by Ernest Hemingway. When were they were published?

- (1926) the Torrents of Spring

- (1926) the Sun Also Rises

- (1929) A Farewell to Arms

2. Who wrote Lord of the Flies? Briefly describe the setting and theme.

- Lord of the Flies is a dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding

Brief: In Lord of the Flies, British schoolboys are stranded on a tropical island. In an attempt to recreate the culture they left behind, they elect Ralph to lead, with the intellectual Piggy as counselor. But Jack wants to lead, too, and one-by-one, he lures the boys from civility and reason to the savage survivalism of primeval hunters. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding gives us a glimpse of the savagery that underlies even the most civilized human beings (http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/lord-of-the-flies/lord-of-the-flies-at-a-glance)

3. Who wrote the book 1984?

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian[1] novel by George Orwell published in 1949

4. Name two plays by Arthur Miller. Give a one-sentence description of each.

- All My Sons (1947)

- Death of a Salesman (1949),

5. Name a nature writer from the school of American Romanticism.

The nature writer from the school of American Romanticism is Ken Weber. Ken devised the term 'Romanticism' from 'romance'

6. Who wrote the novel Jane Eyre? The novel uses the motifs of an old manor, a Byronic hero, the madwoman in the attic, and "the vampire." What is the name for these kinds of motifs?

Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels are English literature standards. She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Be.

7. What year was Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice first published? What year was it first published under her name instead of "Anonymous"?

- Pride and Prejudice is a novel by

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