Background on Dickinson
Dickinson's careeer as a poet is unusual, in part, because, with very few exceptions, she did not do this.
What is publish them.
Twain believed that fiction should be derived from this.
What is observaiton and expereience?
Name at least one major reason this book has been banned.
What are "bad morals." use of the n-word, and/or racism in general?
Dickinson says she likes "a look of agony" for this reason.
What is because it is true or authentic?
Jim's "owner"
Who is Miss Watson?
Dickinson's life was unusal, in part, because she rarely left here.
What is home?
This phase of Twain's career featured local color, tall tales and the use of vernacular language.
What is humorist?
T.S. Eliot said that these twwo things make Huckleberry Finn a great book.
What are the boy and hte river?
What is unusual about the speaker in "I heard a fly buzz"?
What is the speaker is already dead?
This is how Huck escapes from his father.
What is he stages his won "murder"?
Dickinson's poetry is sometimes described as elliptical because the poems seem to do this.
What is leave things out?
In this phase of Twain's career, he ridiculed the excesses and vices of his time.
What is social critic or mature artist?
This famous American author said that all modern American literature begins with this book.
Who was Ernest Hemingway?
Which of the five senses does the speaker emphasize in the poem "I Felt of Funeral in my Brain"?
What is sound?
The true identity of sarah Mary Williams
Who is Huck?
Dickinson's poetry is described as "highly subjective" because 1/5 of her poems start with this word.
What is "I"?
In this phase of Twain's career, he became increasingly bitter about life and human beings in general.
What is the cynical hilosopher phase?
Name one of the two terms used to desribe the sturcture of the book.
What are pacareque and frame story?
In "I Heard a Fly Buzz," the morners in the room are waiting this person to show up, but instead they get a fly.
Who is "the King" (or God or Jesus)?
Huck plays this trick on Jim and almost gets him killed.
What is putting a dead rattle snake in his bed?
Along with this other 19th Century American poet, Dickinson is considered one of the most important pre-cursurs to modern American poetry.
Who is Walt Whitman?
Name are one of the 2 things that Twain mephasized in the third and final phase of his career.
What are humanity's helplessness in face of the forces of the universe and (or) humanity's cowardice, pettiness and evil.
The overall quality of the novel is sometimes quesioned because of this.
What is the ending?
This is what the soul does after it "selects its own society."
What is "shuts the door"?
The anme of the ship that sank with the crimianls aboard. (It is also the anme of a famous writer of Romantic fiction).
What is the Walter Scott?