Authors
This author use literature, in the form of literary fiction and even metafiction, to process the trauma of combat.
Who is Tim O'Brien?
This is the art of written and spoken persuasive language.
This city known for being a center for southwestern artists is also the capital of its state.
What is Santa Fe NM?
"To choke or panic is considered to be as bad as to quit. But are all forms of failure equal?"
Who is Malcolm Gladwell?
She is the most decorated gymnast in history winning four olympic gold medals and multiple world championships.
Who is Simone Biles?
This playwright staged a story depicting African American life by composing a play for each decade of the 20th century.
Who is August Wilson?
This literary device creates a sharp contrast between two images, objects, or ideas.
What is juxtaposition?
This is actually the longest river in the United States.
What is the Missouri River?
"My father, who is one of the few Indians who went to Catholic school on purpose, was an avid reader of westerns, spy thrillers, murder mysteries, gangster epics, basketball player biographies and anything else he could find."
Who is Sherman Alexie?
She is the first female Vice President in US history.
Who is Kamala Harris?
This playwright brought the reader into the Lowman household on the stage to challenge traditional ideals of the American Dream and family dynamics.
Who is Arthur Miller?
Literary term for a character's transformation throughout a story.
What is character arch?
This city is the publishing capital of the world.
What is NYC?
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
This line divided the Northern States and the Southern States in the Civil War.
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
This author/essayist travels the world reading his essays live to large audiences.
Who is David Sedaris?
Repetition of a word or phrase as a rehtorical or literary device.
What is anaphora?
The Strait of Gibraltar separates these two continents, the shortest distance in these two continents at that.
What are Europe and Africa?
"The result is disturbing."
Who is Malcolm Gladwell?
He is the last US president to be shot.
Who is Ronald Regan?
This popular author, journalist, essayist, and began his career as a writer for The American Spectator before being fired; subsequently, he wrote science and history essays for The Washington Post, then had a highly successful career at The New Yorker.
He has since written five best-selling nonfiction books.Who is Malcolm Gladwell?
This literary device used in both film and literature is when the story itself acknowledges that it is a story; it is also known as "breaking the fourth wall."
What is metafiction?
This location is the lowest elevation in the United States at 282 feet below sea level.
"Then the crowd of fifty or so pushes in delta-wing formation across the city's Public fields of green.
Who is Billy Miller?
Name any two US presidents who were related.
"Who are any of these:
FDR and Teddy Rosevelt?
J Adams and JQ Adams?
Bush and W Bush.