Authors
He wrote The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This novel takes place during the Jazz Age and features lavish parties and lost love.
What is The Great Gatsby?
A major theme of Of Mice and Men that reflects the American Dream gone wrong.
What is loneliness or shattered dreams.
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
What is The Great Gatsby?
The Great Gatsby is set in and critiques this 1920s cultural period.
What is the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties?
This author based The Crucible on real events and used it to criticize McCarthyism.
Who is Arthur Miller?
Theme about what it means to become successful in America.
What is the American Dream?
“I’m not!” she sobbed. “I’m not a witch!”
What is The Crucible?
The Crucible was written during this post-WWII literary period focused on social commentary.
What is postmodernism or mid-20th century American drama?
This author wrote about his experience in the Vietnam War from a fictional standpoint.
Who is Tim O'Brien?
This book's title refers to both physical items and emotional burdens of war.
What is The Things They Carried?
Name three common themes in American Literature.
What is the American Dream, individualism, pursuit of love, meaning of freedom, etc?
“He ain't heavy, he's my brother.” (Implied in this book's friendship and caretaking dynamic.)
What is Of Mice and Men?
Of Mice and Men is an example of literature from this economic crisis era.
What is the Great Depression?
He grew up in Salinas, California, a place he wrote about in his literary works.
Who is John Steinbeck?
This novel's title refers to a poem by Robert Burns about dreams that fail.
What is Of Mice and Men?
The Great Gatsby critiques this part of the American Dream.
What is the pursuit of wealth/status without fulfillment?
“I’m stone. I’m flesh.”
What is Facing It?
The Things They Carried was published during this late 20th-century literary movement.
What is postmodernism or contemporary American literature?
This Modernist poet wrote "Death of a Soldier," known for his abstract, philosophical style.
Who is Wallace Stevens?
This poem title reflects a veteran confronting both a memorial and his inner trauma.
What is "Facing It"?
“Death of a Soldier” and “Facing It” both explore this harsh reality of war.
What is the emotional and physical cost of combat?
“Because I could not stop for Death – / He kindly stopped for me –”
Who is Emily Dickinson?
Literary Period of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck.
What is Modernism?