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American writer and reformer best known for her
Louisa May Alcott largely autobiographical novel Little Women (1868-
1869).
wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African-
Maya Angelou
American autobiographer and poet
American Science Fiction writer..
Author of "There Will Come Soft Rains"
Ray Bradbury
"Fahrenheit 451"
A Sound of Thunder
(born in America but of Mexican decent) - For her
insightful social critique and powerful prose style, she
has achieved recognition far beyond Chicano and
Latino communities, to the extent that The House on
Sandra Cisneros
Mango Street has been translated worldwide and is
taught in American classrooms as a coming-of-age
novel
The House on Mango Street
, wrote Red Badge of Courage; American novelist,
short story writer, poet, journalist, raised in NY and NJ;
style and technique: naturalism, realism,
Stephen Crane
impressionism; themes: ideals v. realities, spiritual
crisis, fears
American Naturalistic period
wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the
English novel
The True-Born Englishman, which shed light on racial
prejudice in England following attacks on William for
Daniel Defoe
being a foreigner; and the Review, a periodical that
was published from 1704 to 1713, during the reign of
Queen Anne, King William II's successor
British Neoclassical Period
Reclusive New England poet who wrote about love,
death, and immortality
Emily Dickinson "I could not stop death"
"There was a funeral inside my brain"
American Renaissance Period
(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he
escaped slavery and became a leading African
American spokesman and writer. He published his
Frederick Douglass
biography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass, and founded the abolitionist newspaper,
the North Star.
American transcendentalist who was against slavery
and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-
improvement, self-confidence, and freedom. He was a
Ralph Waldo Emerson
prime example of a transcendentalist and helped
further the movement.
Author of Nature and Self Reliance
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Terms in this set (317)
American writer and reformer best known for her
Louisa May Alcott largely autobiographical novel Little Women (1868-
1869).
wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African-
Maya Angelou
American autobiographer and poet
American Science Fiction writer..
Author of "There Will Come Soft Rains"
Ray Bradbury
"Fahrenheit 451"
A Sound of Thunder
(born in America but of Mexican decent) - For her
insightful social critique and powerful prose style, she
has achieved recognition far beyond Chicano and
Latino communities, to the extent that The House on
Sandra Cisneros
Mango Street has been translated worldwide and is
taught in American classrooms as a coming-of-age
novel
The House on Mango Street
, wrote Red Badge of Courage; American novelist,
short story writer, poet, journalist, raised in NY and NJ;
style and technique: naturalism, realism,
Stephen Crane
impressionism; themes: ideals v. realities, spiritual
crisis, fears
American Naturalistic period
wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the
English novel
The True-Born Englishman, which shed light on racial
prejudice in England following attacks on William for
Daniel Defoe
being a foreigner; and the Review, a periodical that
was published from 1704 to 1713, during the reign of
Queen Anne, King William II's successor
British Neoclassical Period
Reclusive New England poet who wrote about love,
death, and immortality
Emily Dickinson "I could not stop death"
"There was a funeral inside my brain"
American Renaissance Period
(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he
escaped slavery and became a leading African
American spokesman and writer. He published his
Frederick Douglass
biography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass, and founded the abolitionist newspaper,
the North Star.
American transcendentalist who was against slavery
and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-
improvement, self-confidence, and freedom. He was a
Ralph Waldo Emerson
prime example of a transcendentalist and helped
further the movement.
Author of Nature and Self Reliance
