“The blind man, an old friend of my wife’s, he was on his way to spend the night.”
What is the first sentence of "Cathedral"?
100
In the opening scene of Antigone, Ismene seeks to discourage her sister from undertaking this reckless act.
What is burying her brother?
100
This character “used to sing real pretty.”
Who is Minnie Wright?
100
These words in the printed text of a play inform the director, crew, actors and readers how to stage, perform or imagine the play.
What are stage directions?
100
“Go thine own way,” urges this tragic protagonist. “Myself will bury him.”
Who is Antigone?
200
“You better not never tell nobody but God.”
What is the first sentence of The Color Purple?
200
In a story we read by Raymond Carver, the narrator and Robert develop a personal connection by producing a drawing of this.
What is a cathedral?
200
This character has some big fat Greek shoes to fill--his father's.
Who is Telemachus?
200
This literary term refers to a unique variety of a language, often associated with a particular region.
What is dialect?
200
The speaker of a famous poem by Walt Whitman hears America doing this.
What is singing?
300
“They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.”
What is the first sentence of Wide Sargasso Sea?
300
This is how Mr. Wright was killed.
What is strangulation by rope?
300
This unusually named character from a New England regionalist text is most memorable for his ironic repetition of the phrase “I ain’t got nothin’ to say about it, Mother.”
Who is Adoniram?
300
This type of narration entails a narrator who is also a character.
What is internal narration?
300
Oh, what a metaphorically complex death shroud this character weaves…!
Who is Penelope?
400
"Her skin is like dusk on the eastern horizon..."
What is the first sentence of "Karintha" (and/or Cane)?
400
This is Squeak's real name.
What is Mary Agnes?
400
In Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for death,” this personified concept is kind of a third wheel.
Who is Immortality?
400
This term describes the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
400
Dear This Short Story, Your unreliable first-person narrator called; she wants her creative freedom back. Smooches! Dr. Miller
What is "The Yellow Wallpaper"?
500
“I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind…”
What is the first line of "Yet Do I Marvel"?
500
This haunting figure from Jean Toomer’s Cane is described as “a young thing ripened too soon.”
Who is Karintha?
500
yes this character is known for the final chapter of that book by james joyce yes that book they called obscene and banned in america and everywhere else but it got famous then and why shouldn’t it and now it’s on the top of famous lists of famous books and this character is known for the narration of the last episode which alludes to penelope yes it does yes
Who is Molly Bloom?
500
This type of narration, usually third person, represents the thoughts of a character with little intervention from the narrator.
What is stream-of-consciousness narration?
500
New opportunities for creative expression (amid continuing racial discrimination) *tantalize* this wondering poet of the Harlem Renaissance period.