Sylvia's Life
Vocabulary1
Sylvia's Work
Major Authors
Historical Events
100
October 27, 1932
What is Sylvia Plath's birthday
100
What literature movement began after WWII?
What is Contemporary Literature
100
Sylvia mainly wrote about what?
What is a hard brutal life
100
Who wrote the poem The Moment?
Who is Margaret Atwood
100
Sylvia's book The Bell Jar was published in November of 1963, what other major event happened in this month?
What is JFK's assassination
200
Where was Sylvia Plath born?
What is Boston Massachusetts
200
The General character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.
What is Tone
200
What was her only novel titled?
What is The Bell Jar
200
Amy Tan wrote what book?
What is The Joy Luck Club
200
What book was named one of the best scientific Fiction books of the year in 2011, at the same time that Bin Laden was killed?
What is The Guardian
300
What was the cause of her death?
What is Suicide by gas inhalation
300
Posthumously means what?
What is After death
300
What trauma influenced her to write Daddy?
What is The death of her father
300
Farther Away, a novel written by what author?
Who is Jonathan Franzen
300
Nixon put in his resignation the same year that this motion horror film was released.
What is Texas Chainsaw Massacre
400
What was the first college she attended?
What is Smith College
400
A strong written or verbal attack on someone or something is what?
What is Polemic
400
What poem did she write at the age of 8?
What is Daddy
400
Lorelei is a poem written by who?
Who is Sylvia Plath
400
The Burlington Contemporary Writing Award was given to this author the same month the Boston marathon was bombed.
Who is Jenna Kummings
500
Why was she sent to a mental institution? And what treatment did they give her there?
What is First suicide attempt. Electro shock therapy.
500
Mein Kampf means what?
What is My Struggle
500
What is The Bell Jar about?
What is Middle aged women in the big city struggling with depression
500
Was Daughter of Fortune a book or poem written by Isabel Allende?
What is a book
500
The same month MLK Jr. is murdered, a book about native american ancestry, called this was released.
What is Spider Woman's Granddaughters
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