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Question | Answer |
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saki's real name | Hector Hugh Munro |
1870-1916 | 1870-1916 Years Saki lived |
Saki was a __________ born in _____ where his _____ was in the _______ | englishman,burma,father,service |
raised by two strict _____ beacuse his father wanted him _______ in _______. As results he was a _______ and _______ child. | aunts,father,educated,england,lonely,unhappy |
his ___ were _____and showed people to be ____,____, and ______. | stories,cynical,unkind,cruel,foolish |
Also famous for ____ and the _____ ________ in his stories. | humor,strange situations |
worked as a _______ ______________ in ________,________, and ________. | foreign,correspondent,Bulgaria,Poland,Russia |
________about a cat that could _____, was a ____ on ______ _______. | Tobermory,speak,satire,engish society |
was killen in _____ | WW11 |
O.Henry's real name | William Sydney Porter |
1862-1919 | years o.henry lived |
wrote in the laguage of the _______ ___ | common,man |
sories are often _____________ | sentimental |
most famous is ______ __ ____ ____ | Gift of the Magi |
contributed _______ ending | suprise |
sprent _ years in _______ because he was charged with_________ bank _____ | 3,prison,stealing,funds |
1850-1893 | years Guy de Manupassant lived |
born in ______ and considered to be one of the words greatest _______ of _______ _____ | france,writers,short,stories |
wrote __ ______ of stories | 16,volumes |
stories are _____ and reflect ______ and _______ about people | realistic,sarcasm, pessimism |
wrote with _______ about the ____ and ________ of society | sympathy,poor,outcasts |
died in a ______ _______ | insane asylum |
1919-1965 | years shirley jackson lived |
master of the ____ _____ tale | gothic horror |
also wrote light _________ stories (Charles) | humoreous |
the ______ is her most famous story | lottery |
1842-1913 | years ambrose bierce lived |
born in _____, one of __ children whose names all bgan with _ | ohio,13,a |
raised in a ______ home and _____________ only made him _______ | strict,punishment,worse |
joined _______ army and fought in _______ _____ | union,civil war |
stories dealt with the _________ of ____ | horrors of war |
called the "_______ ______ and the "_________ ______ | bitter bierce, laughing devil |
wrote a _______ called the ______ ______ which included the _______ __________ | column, town crier,devils dictionary |
dissapered in ______ in ____ | mexico,1913 |
1860-1904 | years anton chekhov lived |
one of the worlds greatest _____ ______ writers | short stories |
also a famous _________ | playwright |
a _______ _______ | medical doctor |
interested in the _________of ___________, he encouraged _________ _______ | problems,imprisonment,prison reform |