Стр.146 По учебной программе ГДЗ Комарова Ларионова 7 класс

Match the words with the definitions.

1. theme
2. event
3. pen name
4. slavery
5. summary
6. social commentary
7. poverty
8. naughty
9. protagonist

1. the state of being poor
2. the system of owning other people and not paying them to do work
3. a brief statement that gives the main information about a longer text
4. a topic
5. a false name that a writer uses
6. behaving badly
7. the main character in a book, play or film
8. a text giving an opinion about society
9. something that happens

Read the texts and answer the questions.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born in Florida in 1835. When he was four, he moved to a town on the banks of the Mississippi. Many of his books, including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, are set near the Mississippi and are based on real events. Slavery still existed in the USA until the 1860s, and many of Twain’s books were a social commentary on slavery and the American laws of the time. Other writers often call him the ‘father of American literature’.

Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1812. He was the most popular novelist of the Victorian era. His novels were a social commentary on the poverty and crime of the period. He wrote 14 novels and many other short stories, and his second novel, Oliver Twist, shocked his readers because of its realism. Leo Tolstoy regarded Dickens as the best of all English novelists and considered one of Dickens’ novels, David Copperfield, to be his finest work.

1. What was Mark Twain’s real name?
2. Where are some of Mark Twain’s books set?
3. What do some writers call Mark Twain?
4. When was Charles Dickens born?
5. What did he write about?
6. Why did Oliver Twist shock readers?