Something About Mary
Potent Poetry
Their Eyes Were Watching This Category
Assorted American Authors
Wild About Writing
100

Mary's favorite candy.

What are peanut butter cups?

100

This poet wrote the earliest published poem we studied this semester.

Who is Phyllis Wheatley?

100

The first and last name of Janie's first husband.

Who is Logan Killicks?

100

This author served as a medic in the Civil War.

Who is Walt Whitman?

100

The worst font with which to write your essay.

What is Comic Sans?

200

The profession Mary was in just before becoming a teacher?

What is a journalist.
200

The San Francisco fog may have been named after this poet.

Who is Carl Sandburg?

200

This is what Nanny calls her daughter/Janie's mother.

Who is Leafy?

200

This author wrote Between the World and Me.

Who is Ta-Nehisi Coates?

200

The title of a poem needs to be noted in this way. 

What is in quotation marks.

300

Mary got her master's degree from this college.

What is Middlebury College?

300

The name of the poetic form invented by Jericho Brown.

What is the duplex?

300

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?

300

This author and scholar coined the phrase "intersectionality."

Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?

300

This is the thing you need right before you introduce a quote. 

What is a lead in (or transition)

400

The name of the cutest dog in the world and also the most loyal dog in all of literature.

Who is Argos?

400

The three records the speaker of "Theme for English B" likes as a Christmas present.

What are Bessie, bop, and Bach?

400

The year Their Eyes Were Watching God was originally published.

What is 1937?

400

The current poet laureate of California.

Who is Lee Herrick?

400

A dictionary definition.

What is something to avoid starting your essay with?

500

Mary says this after "How does your face feel?".

What is "It's been killing me for years."

500

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."

500

The final line of Their Eyes Were Watching God.

What is, "She called in her soul to come and see."

500

The current poet laureate of the United States.

Who is Ada Limón?

500

The claim.

What is the overall argument woven throughout your essay?

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