Characters
Authors
Genres
Plot and Conflict
Box of Chocolates
100

Buries a former friend in a catacomb for insulting his family.

Montresor 

100

Traveled to Canada during the Gold Rush.

Jack London

100

A reaction against Enlightenment and NeoClassical Literature

Romanticism

100

Four men try to survive a shipwreck.

The Open Boat

100

Author of A Horseman in the Sky.

Ambrose Bierce
200

Dead woman whom the narrator of "The Raven" hopes to see again in heaven.

Lenore

200
Lived in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Kate Chopin

200

Dark and picturesque literature that is characterized by melodramatic narrative devices, and permeated by a sense of mystery and dread

Gothic

200

A murderer confesses his crime to the police because he believes he can still hear the beating heart of his victim.

The Tell-Tale Heart

200

Stephen Crane and Jack London wrote short stories and novels in this genre.

Naturalism

300

Warns the man in "To Build a Fire" not to travel alone in dangerously cold weather.

The Old Timer at Sulphur Creek

300

Author of "The Red Badge of Courage" 

Stephen Crane

300

Literature that tries to replicate real life

Realism

300

A woman mourns the loss of a young soldier who was believed to have died in battle.

The Locket

300

Daily Double: 

What is an example of place driving the plot of "The Locket?" 

The belief that Ned's locket is a protective charm, since he is from New Orleans, known for Voodoo

400

Union sentinel who must shoot a Confederate cavalry rider.

Carter Druse

400

Orphaned at 3, had a falling out with his adoptive father, died mysteriously.

Edgar Allan Poe

400
A literary reaction to the theories presented in Darwin's Origin of Species

Naturalism

400

A young woman is abandoned by her husband because he believes she is "passing" as white.

Desiree's Baby

400

Daily Double: How does place drive the plot of "Desiree's Baby"? 

The culture of paranoia regarding radical identity in the Antebellum South fuels the central conflict

500

Brothers who are constantly bickering, even though they care deeply about one another's well being.

Billie and Dan Dempster

500

Wrote "the Awakening" 

Kate Chopin

500

A reaction against Romanticism

Realism

500

A union soldier has to choose between his duty to protect his companions and the life of his father.

A Horseman in the Sky

500
Science Fiction, Horror, and the Modern Detective Novel

Genres attributed to the writings of Edgar Allan Poe

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