I used blank verse in much of my poetry and focused on writing about nature, especially "Birches."
Who is Robert Frost?
100
This team sport's rules were first printed in 1892 in the newspaper of a Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA training school.
What is basketball?
100
This is language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
100
The 2012 Summer Olympics took place in this city.
What is London?
100
I authored "A Rose for Emily."
Who is William Faulkner?
200
I focused on using rhythm in my poem about a weary blues singer.
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
This is Earth's largest continent.
What is Asia?
200
This type of protagonist contrasts with the hero archetype.
What is antihero?
200
This song was 2012 breakout star Carly Rae Jepsen's No. 1 Billboard hit. (And prompted the Harvard baseball team to make a "music video.")
What is "Call Me Maybe?"
200
I authored "Soldier's Home."
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
300
I utilized irony when I introduced Death as a kind gentleman.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
300
This sense is most closely linked to memory.
What is smell?
300
The ways words and phrases are arranged.
What is syntax?
300
This group of people predicted the world would end on December 21, 2012.
Who are the Mayans?
300
I authored the poems "Harlem" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
I focused on appealing to all the senses of my readers by focusing on everyday, simple objects. Hey...are those plums?
Who is William C. Williams?
400
This U.S. city was once known as "Federal City."
What is Washington, D.C.?
400
This is reference, indirect or direct, to someone or something outside a literary work.
What is allusion?
400
This was the 23rd movie of the James Bond franchise and premiered last November.
What is "Skyfall?"
400
I authored "A Worn Path."
Who is Eudora Welty?
500
I really shook things up by using syntax and rearranging words/phrases in my poetry. Capitalizing my name wasn't too terribly important either.
Who is e.e. cummings?
500
This symbol was first linked to the Democratic party in an 1870 cartoon by Thomas Nast.
What is a donkey?
500
This is a very old imaginative pattern that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated through the ages. This can be a character, a plot, an image, a theme, or a setting.