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This poet wrote "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," often exploring rural New England themes.
Difficulty: Easy- Walt Whitman
- Emily Dickinson
- Robert Frost
- Carl Sandburg
This very small girl born from a flower is kidnapped by a toad who wants her to marry her son, beginning a journey through the natural world.
Difficulty: Medium- Thumbelina
- Tinker Bell
- Arrietty
- Fern
This adult-oriented book by Dr. Seuss written under a pseudonym features inappropriate content for children and was published in 1939.
Difficulty: Hard- The Seven Lady Godivas
- The Pocket Book of Boners
- You're Only Old Once!
- I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today!
This author of "Romeo and Juliet" is often called the greatest writer in the English language.
Difficulty: Easy- William Shakespeare
- Charles Dickens
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- John Milton
This Irish poet wrote "The Second Coming," warning that "the centre cannot hold" and anticipating apocalyptic change.
Difficulty: Medium- W.B. Yeats
- Seamus Heaney
- Oscar Wilde
- James Joyce
Existence precedes essence summarizes the philosophical position that humans create their own meaning through choices.
Difficulty: Hard- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Albert Camus
- Martin Heidegger
- Simone de Beauvoir
This central character drives the action and faces the main conflict in a story, often serving as the hero or main focus.
Difficulty: Easy- Foil
- Antagonist
- Narrator
- Protagonist
This term describes the person within the narrative to whom the narrator addresses the story.
Difficulty: Medium- Implied reader
- Audience
- Narratee
- Listener
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