Looking Back
This great author was less great at marriage. He had four wives.
Ernest Hemingway
This is considered the oldest piece of literature in the English language.
Beowulf
A person or other being who plays a part in a narrative.
Character
Like the founder of Amazon, my husband has this first name.
Jeff
I like jazz but country is my favorite.
jazz, but
This creature chased Montag through town, but lost him at the river.
The mechanical hound
William Shakespeare wrote three types of plays: histories, comedies, and this type of which Macbeth and Hamlet are examples.
Tragedies
Setting
Aside from being a lackluster athlete, this is my favorite game show, which makes me the logical choice to coach Quiz Bowl.
Jeopardy
Mary Anne, my mom is seventy years old.
mom, is
Santiago managed to land this giant fish, but never reaped any financial rewards from his victory.
The marlin
The youngest author we will hear from this year is Mary Shelley, who wrote this book about a doctor who tries to play God and failed abysmally.
Frankenstein
The series of a events that occur in a story.
Plot
After taking a Fine Arts class in college, I became obsessed with visiting this continent, which I did twice before graduating.
Europe
My favorite kind of hero is tall dark and handsome.
tall, dark
or
dark, and
Hester thought her husband was dead, but he reappeared at a rather inopportune time. She recognized him immediately by this unusual trait.
His crooked shoulder
This author wrote David Copperfield as a roman à clef- a book with names changed, but based on real life events. Since he was writing about his own life, he inverted his first and last initial to come up with David's name.
Charles Dickens
The inciting incident that begins the action of the story.
Conflict
Whenever I am stressed, I listen to Pride and Prejudice by this regency author.
Jane Austen
As your teacher I want to make sure you succeed.
teacher, I
This soulful poet of the Harlem Renaissance wrote The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes
C.S. Lewis, who wrote The Screwtape Letters, has this rather unusual office supply-inspired middle name.
Staples
The central idea a book explores, which reappears in different ways throughout the narrative.
Theme
I am left handed, but can write fairly well with my right hand, making me almost this four-syllable term.
Ambidextrous
However this is not your only option.
However, this