Titles (Almost)
Literary Language Learned
From Where?
Writers We Ought to Know
Take Your Chances!
100

After a long night's sleep. 

What is "The Awakening?" 

100

Comparison using like or as

What is a similie? 

100

Ida B. Wells argued there was a "mob rule" in this city

What is New Orleans? 

100

Wrote "The Road Not Taken" 

Who is Robert Frost? 

100

The two historical events taking place during "Pale Horse Pale Rider"

What is WW1 and the Spanish Influenza? 

200

Motor vehicle addressed passion

What is "A Streetcar Named Desire?" 

200

The continued use of a word, phrase, or sound. 

What is repetition? 

200

Expressed Claude Mackay's conflicted feelings about this place

What is "America"
200

Wrote "Passing"

Who is Nella Larson?

200

Dr. Solomon's favorite poem, which he read in Monday's lecture

What is "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver? 

300

Equine animal lacking in color

What is "Pale Horse Pale Rider?"

300

Using a part to represent the whole

What is synecdoche? 

300

The 1930's literary corner for writers like Langston Hughes, Nella Larson, and Zora Neale Hurston

What is Harlem? 

300

Wrote "The Library Card," a chapter from his book "Black Boy" 

Who is Richard Wright? 

300

A 1950's movie star portraying Stanley in the film adaptation of "A Streetcar Named Desire" 

Who is Marlon Brando? 

400

Exciting Abode

What is "Fun Home?" 

400

Continuing from one line of poetry to the next without punctuation. 

What is enjambment? 

400

The city Dr. Solomon profiled throughout the semester

What is Key West? 
400

Author of Miscegenation and Graveyard Blues

Who is Natasha Tretheway? 

400

Better known for her origination of a test that analyzes the dialogue of women in TV and film

Who is Alison Bechdel? 

500

Little Problems. 

What is "Trifles?" 

500

The written description of a visual work of art

What is ekphrasis? 

500

The state of Allen Ginsburg's supermarket

What is California? 

500

Wrote "Questions of Travel"

Who is Elizabeth Bishop? 

500

As an acronym, TWOMSUGTVAMTLVET 

What is, "Three White Ole Miss Students Use Guns to Vandalize a Memorial to Lynching Victim Emmett Till?" 

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