Southern Lit
Characteristics of this genre include irrational, transgressive, and repressed thoughts, grotesque characters, and a sense of alienation
What is Southern Gothic?
The most translated book in the world; over 450 known versions of this text in English alone
What is The Bible?
Traditional stories or legends circulated by word of mouth
What is a Folklore?
This Spielberg film was deemed 'cursed' after multiple cast members suffered gruesome deaths
What is Poltergeist?
This iconic novel was almost titled "Atticus"
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
This writer purchased a headstone inscribed with "A Genius of the South" to mark Zora Neale Hurston's grave
Who is Alice Walker?
This vampiric novel is one of the most adapted tales of all time with 91 (and counting) film adaptations
What is Dracula?
A book written in the form of letters or correspondence
What is an Epistolary Novel?
The only clue left regarding the fate of the Lost Colony, carved into a tree on Roanoke Island, NC
What is CROATOAN?
Black and white film photographer who recorded her family and the landscape of Shenandoah
Who is Sally Mann?
Author of The Glass Menagerie
Who is Tennessee Williams?
The Color Purple, To Kill a Mockingbird, and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings are all examples of this
What are Banned Books?
Extreme exaggeration used for dramatic emphasis
What is Hyperbole?
The murdered family from In Cold Blood
Who are the Clutters?
Hollywood bombshell who played Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Who is Elizabeth Taylor?
The fictional Mississipi town where many Faulkner novels take place
What is Jefferson?
This novel has a sentence that is 1,288 words long (formerly considered the longest sentence in English literature)
What is Absalom, Absalom!
A way of speaking that distinguishes a character's background, setting, and attitude.
What is Dialect?
This Great Expectations author believed in the supernatural and belonged to a paranormal research organization known as The Ghost Club, founded in 1862
Who is Charles Dickens?
This beloved Nobel Prize winner didn't publish her first novel until she was 39-years old
Who is Toni Morrison?
The Truman Capote inspired character in To Kill a Mockingbird
Who is Dill?
Second play to win both a Pulitzer and New York Drama Critics Circle Award
What is A Streetcar Named Desire?
Stream-of-Consciousness writing is often used in this literary movement
What is Modernism?
The Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come appear to the protagonist of this classic story
What is A Christmas Carol?
This famous southern short-storyist was known for her affinity with Peacocks
Who is Flannery O'Connor?