Something About Mary
Mary's favorite candy.
What are peanut butter cups?
This poet wrote the earliest published poem we studied this semester.
Who is Phyllis Wheatley?
The first and last name of Janie's first husband.
Who is Logan Killicks?
This author served as a medic in the Civil War.
Who is Walt Whitman?
The worst font with which to write your essay.
What is Comic Sans?
The profession Mary was in just before becoming a teacher?
The San Francisco fog may have been named after this poet.
Who is Carl Sandburg?
This is what Nanny calls her daughter/Janie's mother.
Who is Leafy?
This author wrote Between the World and Me.
Who is Ta-Nehisi Coates?
The title of a poem needs to be noted in this way.
What is in quotation marks.
Mary got her master's degree from this college.
What is Middlebury College?
The name of the poetic form invented by Jericho Brown.
What is the duplex?
Hurston likely based the hurricane in her novel on the real-life 1928 storm that caused catastrophic flooding around this lake.
What is Lake Okeechobee?
This author and scholar coined the phrase "intersectionality."
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
This is the thing you need right before you introduce a quote.
What is a lead in (or transition)
The name of the cutest dog in the world and also the most loyal dog in all of literature.
Who is Argos?
The three records the speaker of "Theme for English B" likes as a Christmas present.
What are Bessie, bop, and Bach?
The year Their Eyes Were Watching God was originally published.
What is 1937?
The current poet laureate of California.
Who is Lee Herrick?
A dictionary definition.
What is something to avoid starting your essay with?
Mary says this after "How does your face feel?".
What is "It's been killing me for years."
The two lines that make up the entirety of "In a Station of the Metro"
What is, "The apparition of these faces in the crowd: / Petals on a wet, black bough."
The final line of Their Eyes Were Watching God.
What is, "She called in her soul to come and see."
The current poet laureate of the United States.
Who is Ada Limón?
The claim.
What is the overall argument woven throughout your essay?