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| 116757128 | Horatio Alger, Jr. | American Author, 19th cent., "rags to riches" stories | |
| 116757129 | "Anna Karenina" | Novel by Leo Tolstoy; russian author, "every happy family is happy in the same way, every unhappy family is unhappy in their own way" | |
| 116757130 | Maya Angelou | African American poet | |
| 116757131 | Absurd, The Theater of the | plays that stress the illogical or irrational aspects of experience usually to show the pointlessness of modern life | |
| 116757132 | Allegory | a story with a deeper meaning in addition to its surface story "Pilgrim's Progress" | |
| 116757133 | "American Gothic" | a painting by Grant Wood | |
| 116757134 | Ampersand | &, the "And" symbol | |
| 116757135 | Acappela | singing without musical accompaniment | |
| 116757136 | Acronym | a word formed by combining the beginning letters of a word or phrase ex)WASP: White Anglo Saxon Protestant | |
| 116757137 | Active Voice | The Subject is doing the action of the verb (opposite is passive voice) ex) Joe hit the ball. NOT The ball was hit by Joe. | |
| 116757138 | "Alas, Poor Yorick!" | "Hamlet" Soliliquy quotation from Hamlet, a play by Shakespeare | |
| 116757139 | "All the world's a stage" | from the play "As You Like It" quotation from 7 ages of man speech. Play by Shakespeare | |
| 116757140 | "Animal Farm" | Novel by George Orwell; all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others | |
| 116757141 | "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here" | Dante's "Inferno" written on the sign above the gates of hell part of the Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Peredisio) | |
| 116757142 | Aphorism | a concise and often witty statement of wisdom or opinion | |
| 116757143 | "Come live with me and be my love" | 1st line of a poem by Christopher Marlow 'The Passionate Shephard to his love'. Trying to persuade her | |
| 116757144 | "Civil Disobedience" | If a law contradicts your moral conscience, you have a duty to civilly disobey that law. Philosophy has led Ghandi and MLKJr. Henry David Thoreau American Write, An Essay | |
| 116757145 | '10 little indians' | book, political correctness can awry, 10 people at ski place one by one killed. 10 little indians rhyme shows up a lot in this. | |
| 116757146 | Agatha Christie | english playwrite and novelist. 1920s-30s, British, 'Mousetrap' nightly for 30 yrs in London, longest running play in the world | |
| 116757147 | Robert burns | 18th Cent. scottish poet "Olud Lang syne" /Long Time Ago/ Happy New Years song | |
| 116757148 | Byronic hero | melancholy & rebellious young man distressed by a terrible wrong he commited in the past | |
| 116757149 | Enrico Caruso | 19th and 20th cent/ Opera tenor helped bring opera to the masses | |
| 116757150 | Casanova | a flamboyant and irresponsible lover | |
| 116757151 | Mary Cassatt | 19th-20th cent. american painter, subjects were always mother and child. Style: american impressionism | |
| 116757152 | 'Catch 22' | by joesph Heller in WW2 novel phrase: Any situation that is a double bind | |
| 116757153 | The Catcher in the rye | american author JDSalinger Teenager's bible almost, novel | |
| 116757154 | "Charge of the Light Brigade" | Alfred, Lord Tennyson. poem, military troop going to battle knowing they're going to die | |
| 116757155 | Bowdlerizing | Bowdler, an english publisher printed the complete parts of Shakespeare, cutting out objectionable sections. When you "Bowdlerize" something you are cutting out objectionable parts of a piece | |
| 116757156 | Charlotte Bronte | British Author 19th cent. 'Jane Ayre' | |
| 116757157 | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | |
| 116757158 | 'The Brothers Karamazov' | a novel by the russian author feodore dostoevsky | |
| 116757159 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 19th cent. british poet, collection of poems 'Songs from the portugese' | |
| 116757160 | Robert Browning | poet 19th cent. british original folk tale 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' | |
| 116757161 | Natty Bumppo | a central character in the 'Leather Stocking Tales' by james fennimore cooper, american | |
| 116757162 | "Big brother is watching you" | 1984- George orwell, pseudonym for government | |
| 116757163 | 'The Birth of a Nation' | a silent film about the civil war, DWGriffith 'First full length movie' | |
| 116757164 | 'Black Boy' | a novel by the african american write Richard wright | |
| 116757165 | William blake | a british poet and artist 18/19th cent. he wrote 2 standards art the time 'Songs of innocence' and 'songs of experience' | |
| 116757166 | Bolshoi Theater | russian ballet theater in moscow | |
| 116757167 | 'As You like It' | Shakespeare Play | |
| 116757168 | John James Audobon | a naturalist/environmentalist and an artist of the 19th cent. traveled around US and painted pictures of the animals as a catalogue | |
| 116757169 | Jane Austen | 18th19th cent. 'Pride and Prejudice' | |
| 116757170 | 'Babbitt' | a novel by American Author Sincalir Louis. Satire of the business world | |
| 116757171 | James Baldwin | african American poet/writer "Go tell it on the mountain" | |
| 116757172 | Bard of Avon | shakespeare's nickname | |
| 116757173 | Phineas T Barnum | 19th cent. show man and entertainer; museum of oddities. First american circus-Barnum & Bailey Wringley bros circus | |
| 116757174 | Bartlett's 'Familiar Quotations' | Book of famous quotations |
