20th C Authors
He captured the glamour and disillusionment of the Jazz Age in The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Gatsby, a wealthy bootlegger who throws lavish parties in this town.
What is West Egg?
Harlem is a name of Dutch origin in this American city.
What is New York?
The name of the all-black FL community where Joe becomes mayor.
What is Eatonville?
Blanche arrives in New Orleans after losing her family estate, ________ _________.
What is Belle Reeve?
She gave voice to African American women in Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This bright symbol at the end of Daisy’s dock represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams.
What is the green light?
In "America," this poet described a complex love-hate relationship with the country, calling it both “biting” and “bountiful.”
Who is Claude McKay?
After men in Eatonville look at her hair, Janie's husband forces her to wear this clothing item.
What is the head rag?
This item, often associated with Blanche, symbolizes her desire to hide the truth and soften reality.
What is a paper lantern?
This poet took the road "less traveled by" in one of America’s most quoted poems, "The Road Not Taken".
Who is Robert Frost?
This is Jay Gatsby's real name.
Who is James Gatz?
In "Harlem," Langston Hughes compares a deferred dream to this dried-up object.
What is a "raisin in the sun"
Janie's desire and her feelings towards love are shown in this naturalistic symbol.
What is the pear tree?
Blanche’s young husband, Allan Grey, died after she discovered this about him.
What is Allan's homosexuality?
His muckraking novel The Jungle exposed the horrors of the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The name of Gatsby's business associate is based on real-life mobster Arnold Rothstein.
What is Meyer Wolfsheim?
In "I, Too," Hughes uses this everyday location as a symbol of racial exclusion.
What is the "kitchen"
The name of the area where Janie and Tea Cake go to make money picking crops.
What is The Muck (the Everglades)?
Stanley gives this birthday gift to Blanche, which represents his cruelty and her lack of options.
What is a bus ticket back home?
This poet wrote "One Art," a villanelle about mastering the art of losing.
Who is Elizabeth Bishop?
Gatsby dies in this location.
What is his swimming pool.
Hughes' "I, Too" wrestles with the poem "I Hear America Singing" by this significant 19th C. American Poet
Who is Walt Whitman?
Janie tells her life story to this friend after returning to Eatonville.
Who is Phoebe Watson?
At the end of the play, Blanche leaves with a stranger and famously says she has "always depended on" this.
What is "the kindness of strangers."