Dark and Gloomy
This author is credited with writing the first detective story.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This is the socio-economic status of the house he visits in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
What is a middle class home?
According to Naturalists, these creatures were governed by their instincts, passions, heredity, and environment.
What are humans?
This character's voice was "full of money" in The Great Gatsby.
Who was Daisy?
This character in The Great Gatsby is the embodiment of the American dream.
Who is Jay Gatsby?
This work by Edgar Allan Poe highlights the five stages of grief.
What is "The Raven"?
"Advice to Youth" is rife with this type of figurative language.
What is irony?
What is sarcasm?
What is verbal irony?
What is hyperbole?
What is satire?
In the end of "The Open Boat," this character dies, despite being the strongest.
Who is the oiler?
This character was the most similar to Nick, yet still had the negative qualities of the ultra rich in The Great Gatsby.
Who is Jordan?
This character is the embodiment of the American dream in Of Mice and Men.
Who is Lennie?
This was the color of the clock and the final room in "The Masque of the Red Death."
What is black/ebony?
This character in A Portrait of a Lady is considered "a bright rare shell" that would "rattle" if you shook it.
Who is Amy?
What are instincts?
This famous author was highly controversial in her own time for her themes of women's sexuality and autonomy.
What is Kate Chopin?
This character also strives for the American dream in The Great Gatsby, but also won't attain it because he is not willing to do anything and everything to achieve his goal.
Who is Nick?
The image of the dilapidated house in "The Fall of the House of Usher" symbolized this.
Contemporary readers of American Realism desired answers to this question even in fiction.
What were the rapid shifts in culture?
Naturalism attempted to apply this to its study of human beings.
What is the scientific method of objectivity?
This character in The Great Gatsby desperately wants to rise above her station and it becomes her obsession.
Who is Myrtle?
The Modernists believe the American dream to be a lie because they were suffering from this.
What is disillusionment?
Poe asserted that a good work of fiction must have a unity of this.
What is effect?
Verisimilitude means this.
What is the faithful representation of reality?
In "To Build a Fire," the man lacks this, and therefore cannot survive.
What is imagination?
In the end of "The Storm" these were the consequences of the affair.
What is none?
The Harlem Renaissance created their own version of the American dream by building this for themselves.
What is a new identity?