Character Names
The title character of this Washington Irving story took a nap for twenty years.
Who is Rip Van Winkle?
This is how Bartleby, the Scrivener might respond to just about anything you might ask of him.
What is "I would prefer not to"?
This is the story, by this author, of a Puritan who goes into the woods for some unknown evil errand. Maybe he sees his wife Faith in the woods, maybe not.
What is "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
This text, by this author, is modeled on the Declaration of Independence.
This author wrote "The Tell-Tale Heart."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
The "slave breaker" named Covey is from this text.
What is Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?
This author railed against the "nominal Christians" who supported slavery.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
This is the story, by this author, of an ambitious lawyer who hires a copyist to join the other characters in the office.
What is "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville?
Ben Franklin studies this publication to learn how to write.
What is "The Spectator"?
This author wrote "The Indian Burying Ground."
Who is Philip Freneau?
This text, by this author, includes a graphic description of Aunt Hester being beaten by an enslaver.
What is Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?
This is the author and text in which one finds the phrase "But, where is Faith?"
What is Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"?
A neoclassical meditation on death, by this poet who argues that death is natural; death makes everyone equal.
What is "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant?
The speaker of this poem, by this author, looked at a bird and thought, "He just like me fr."
What is "To a Waterfowl" by William Cullen Bryant?
The 16th president, a Kentuckian, and the writer and orator of "The Gettysburg Address."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
She said her name was Linda Brent, but really she was the author of this text (author and text).
Who is Harriet Jacobs Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl?
This text and author is where you'll find the description "vulture eye."
What is Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
This poem, by this poet, celebrates democratic, American, and working-class life; the individual, but also the collective; it celebrates physical selves and gender equality.
What is "One's Self I Sing" by Walt Whitman?
This writer had his anti-slavery text smuggled into the South so that enslaved men and women could read it and resist slavery--by any means necessary.
This man wrote about his experience of being captured in Africa and sold into slavery.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
This poem, by this author, has a character called a "learn'd astronomer," and the speaker is not impressed by him or his tactics.
What is "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman?
In this poem by this author, one will find this quotation: "How public -- like a Frog -- To tell one's name."
What is "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" by Emily Dickinson?
This text, by this author, rails against Thomas Jefferson, even though Jefferson was dead when it was written.
What is David Walker's "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World"?
This poet wrote relatively short poems--but they pack a punch!
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This poet wrote "Much Madness is Divinest Sense."