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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - ANSWER One of the first ENG Romantics widely
remembered for "The Rime o the Ancient Mariner." With William Wordsworth he
published Lyrical Ballads in 1798
Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle - ANSWER Late 19th century FR female author who published
the Claudine novels as well as THE INNOCENT WIFE
Conrad, Joseph - ANSWER Polish-born BR writer whose most famous books are the
novella Heart of Darkness and the novel UNDER WESTERN EYES
Crane, Stephen - ANSWER American author of the Civil War novel Red Badge of
Courage
Dickens, Charles - ANSWER ENG writer immensely popular with his Victorian audience.
A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations A Christmas Carol
Dickenson, Emily - ANSWER One of American's great 19th century poets whose
emotional poems were never published in her lifetime
Donne, John - ANSWER ENG writer, essayist, and religious scholar considered the
greatest of the metaphysical poets sdue to his highly original poems, including "The
Flea" and "Death Be Not Proud."
Dostoevsky, Fyodor - ANSWER RUS novelist whose major words include CRIME and
PUNISHMENT and THE IDIOT
Dreiser, Theodor - ANSWER AMER writer of the naturalist school (Sister Carrie and An
American Tragedy)
,Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans) - ANSWER Victorian ENG female novelist who wrote the
realist novels Middlemarch and Adam Bede
Eliot, TS - ANSWER American born British Modernist poet who wrote the obscure and
referential poems "The Wasteland" and the "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - ANSWER American Transcendentalist writer and philosopher
preceptor to Thoreau
Euripedes - ANSWER Along with Sophocles and Aeschylus, a preeminent Ancient Greek
dramatist
Faulkner, William - ANSWER American Southern who had a major influence on
contemporary literature. The Sound and the Fury, Absolom! Absolom!, and As I Lay
Dying.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - ANSWER One the 20th cent novelist in the Jazz Age Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - ANSWER FR writer who coined the phrase le mot juste (the perfect
word) and had a notoriously meticulous style
Frost, Robert - ANSWER American poet from the 20th century "Stopping the the Woods
on a Snowy Evening," "Mending Wall."
Ginsberg Allen - ANSWER Amer Beat poet and active political figure who became the
face of a generations's underground HOWL
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - ANSWER Famous German author, critic, and scientist
best known for his epic FAUST
,caste - ANSWER one of the four hereditary classes of society in Hinduism
Code of Hammurabi - ANSWER Babylonian legal code that establishd govt responsiblity
for criminal justice
colony - ANSWER a territory under direct control of a stronger country
communism - ANSWER economic system in which the workers control the means of
production
Communist Manifesto - ANSWER Seminal work by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel in
which the basic principles of communism are outlined
constitution - ANSWER The Law of the Land was drafted in 1787 and ratified 1789
cultural revolution - ANSWER campaign carried out by the Chinese Red Guards
1966-1976 with the goal of revitalizing the Chinese Communist Party and consolidating
Mao Zedong's leadership
predestination - ANSWER belief that those that will attain Salvation are a select few who
are preordained prior to birth.
Presbyterianism - ANSWER Protestant faith originating in Scotland
proselytize - ANSWER to attempt to convert others to a faith or religion
Shintoism - ANSWER Japanese religion based on the polytheistic worship of nature and
ancestors
Taoism - ANSWER Patheistic religion and philosophy originating in China focused on
principles that allow people to live in harmony with the natural order. Founded by
Lao-tzu
, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) - ANSWER A 1949 defense alliance initiated
by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations
New Deal - ANSWER Set of domestic programs set foth by FDR's administration to help
the US overcome the Great Depression
Prussia - ANSWER Old name for current-day Germany. Ruled by Frederick the Great at
its height of pwer
republic - ANSWER govt in which citizens are ruled by elected representatives
suffrage - ANSWER the right or privilege of voting franchise
teetotaler - ANSWER one pledged to abstinence from all intoxicating drinks
totalitarianism - ANSWER one-party political system with the goal of supporting the
welfare of the state above all else
Versailles - ANS Palace near Paris that served as the seat of power for a number of
French kings, Louis XIV amongst them. Conclusion of WWI (Treaty of Versailles)
Warsaw Pact - ANS a 1955 defense alliance organized by the Soviet Union and several
Eastern EUR nations
Waterloo - ANS site where Napoleon had his greatest defeat
Yalta - ANSWER Island where Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met to discuss the
partitioning of EUR at the conclusion of WWII.
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