Literature
Literary Devices
American Literature
College Towns
1940s Literature
200

It begins, "Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember"

Don Quixote

200
the perspective from which a story is told
What is the point of view?
200

Washington Irving's tale of this farmer who takes a big snooze was based on a German folktale

Rip Van Winkle

200

O this little town of Pennsylvania is home to Lehigh University & Moravian College

Bethlehem

200

Mollie the mare is a minor character in this George Orwell novel

Animal Farm 

400

It is an engraving for the 12th & final segment of the Edmund Spenser work known as "The Shepheardes" this

Calendar 

400
the author leaves clues in the story that hint to what is going to happen next
What is foreshadowing?
400

Willa Cather's novel about this title girl is set around the town of Black Hawk, Nebraska

My Antonia

400

Created to serve the University of North Carolina, it's nicknamed the "Southern Part of Heaven"

Chapel Hill

400

The first words of this faded southern belle are "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire"

Blanche DuBois

600

In an S.E. Hinton novel, Motorcycle Boy tries to free the aquarium dwellers he calls these, the book's title

Rumble Fish

600
stopping in a story and going back in time to explain past occurrences
What is a flashback?
600

The title of this first Philip Marlowe novel is a euphemism for death

The Big Sleep

600

Have a ball at Ball State University, located in this city northeast of Indianapolis

Muncie

600

This 1944 Charles Jackson novel about a chronic alcoholic won 4 Oscars when it came to the big screen a year later

The Lost Weekend

800

The title domicile of this Hawthorne novel is halfway down Pyncheon Street

The House of the Seven Gables

800
a character in the story is the narrator
What is first person point of view?
800

4 Chinese women meet regularly to play Mah-jongg & to talk about life & their children in this 1989 Amy Tan novel

The Joy Luck Club

800

Let's raise a glass of bubbly to these 2 adjoining cities, home to the University of Illinois

Champaign and Urbana

800

Her 1948 novel "Peony" told the story of a Jewish family living in China in the 1800s

Pearl Buck

1000

Hilary Mantel's trilogy about Tudor royals is named for this residence

Wolf Hall

1000
a narrator outside of the story tells the story
What is the third person point of view?
1000

In 1997 this famously reclusive author published a fictionalized tale of surveyors "Mason & Dixon"

(Thomas) Pynchon

1000

The main campus for Montana State University is in this city that's named for a wagon master & trail guide

Bozeman

1000

Some of this American poet's "Pisan Cantos" was penned in 1945 while he was in prison for fascist radio broadcasts

(Ezra) Pound

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