Author Stuff
What was the name of the literary movement,
represented by Wordsworth and others, that
prized sublime imagery and the natural world?
What is Romanticism/the Romantic movement
Agnes' last name?
What is Iron?
"
What still grows in winter?
Fingernails of witches and femmes,
green moss on river rocks,"
What is "Evergreen?"
Which of the shorter selections ends “You eat it”?
"The Toxic Donut"
This academic decathlon student currently has the most tardies this academic year
Who is Terry?
Emerson was close friends with which other
Transcendentalist author?
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
After Hannah dies, the tracks of what kind of
animal are found around her house?
What is "wolverine?
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
What is "The World is Too Much With Us?"
This short selection, written by E.B. White, focuses on summers spent in a special place
These four acadeca students attended the Saturday session this weekend.
Who are Joelle, Robert, Luke, and Youri
A work by a famous Transcendentalist says
“Let us demand our own works and laws and
worship.” Who wrote this?
Angel says that two emotions had shaped her.
One is fear. What is the other?
What is "anger"?
There was the method of kneeling,
a fine method, if you lived in a country
where stones were smooth.
The women dreamed wistfully of bleached courtyards,
hidden corners where knee fit rock.
What is "Different Ways to Pray"?
Chen Qiufan, a celebrated Chinese science-fiction author created a text that focuses on a dangerous event that could result in the deaths of two highly trained science professionals. Which text is this?
What is "Space Leek"?
Identify this excerpt:
"
Maybe I had found a way out. Maybe, even as Earth farming had become dominated by machines, space
agriculture would continue to offer a rich realm that humans needed to explore. Maybe, when we thought
we had fully exhausted all the resources these plants could provide, after thousands of years of sowing and
reaping, there was still something greater that could be created out of the most ordinary."
What is "Space Leek"?
One hopeful novel about climate fiction is Woman
on the Edge of Time. Who is its author?
Who is Marge Piercy?
Who sends Angel fifty-five dollars to come to
Adam’s Rib?
Who is Agnes?
the spell breaks. It's years later, Mattoni lecturing
on his struggling butterfly. How fragile.
What is "The Blue?"
Which of the shorter selections begins “One
summer, along about 1904...”?
"Once More to the Lake"
This writer created "Evergreen," a poem that takes place in the woods during winter, and focuses on meditations on living in despair. The speaker contemplates survival in difficult conditions.
Who is Oliver Baez Bendorf?
Who wrote the 2016 book of literary criticism,
The Great Derangement?
Who is Amitav Ghosh?
Which character especially likes to drink Coke?
Who is Agnes?
Mornings were chilly, frost on windows
etching magic landscapes. I liked
to stand over the hot air registers
the warmth blowing up my skirts.
Which of the shorter selections ends “Grandpa,
I’m coming home”?
"Space Leek"
Which author of the shorter selections was born
in 1948 and earned a BA from Harvard?