What a character!
Threads of the Tale
Ink & Identity
Lit Lingo
Potpourri
100

This man wished to never hear the name of the United States again. 

Philip Nolan

100

Edward Murrow reported the conditions he observed in this place.

Buchenwald Concentration Camp

100

Crazy-eyed author of "The Gold Bug"

Edgar Allan Poe

100

"The Gold Bug" takes place on a three-mile-long island off the coast of Charleston. What literary term best fits this description?

Setting

100

This point of view knows and understands the thoughts, feelings and actions of all characters.

Omniscient

200

He wanted to become a musketeer.

d'Artagnan

200

What Cyrano de Bergerac ultimately lost due to his obsession with and insecurity regarding his nose

His true love, Roxane 

200

Wrote "The Man Without a Country" and was the grandnephew of a famous American Revolutionary 

Edward Everett Hale

200

Strickland had plans to take his clients' money and flee to Chicago. He changes his mind, deciding to be an honest man instead. What type of character does Strickland demonstrate?

Dynamic

200

The punishment Philip Nolan received for his impulsive words

Can't set foot on American soil again; no one can speak of the United States in his presence

300

Ben Saloman was awarded this posthumously.

Congressional Medal of Honor

300

This poem contains the line - and lesson - "Look out how you use proud words." 

"Primer Lesson"

300

Wrote the excerpt from Othello called "A Good Name"

William Shakespeare

300

In his address to Congress, Franklin Roosevelt speaks with seriousness and urgency, calling his legislators to recognize the seriousness of the attack on Pearl Harbor and asking them to take action immediately. What literary term describes his attitude? 

Tone

300

The audience President George W. Bush was speaking to in hi 9/11 address

The American people

400

This guy ran after his neighbor when he should have been extinguishing the barn fire. 

Ivan

400

Mona Gardner used this tale to question the belief that gentlemen have better control in a crisis. 

"The Dinner Party"

400

Swedish novelist who wrote about a guy who made and sold rat traps

Selma Lagerlof

400

"De bug is a goole bug ..." is an example of what literary term? 

Dialect

400

The theme of "A Spark Neglected Burns the House" 

Forgiveness

500

Sarah received a letter from this man predicting his death at the Battle of Bull Run and offering final words to his beloved. 

Sullivan Ballou

500

This big-haired French author enjoyed adding swashbuckling humor to his plays. 

Alexandre Dumas

500

The wordsmith who penned "Character of the Happy Warrior"

William Wordsworth

500

This literary term describes the crisis when the rising action escalates to its highest intensity and the action changes course.

Climax

500

The protagonist in Helen Acker's story about a "glass with magical properties" that turned men into giants and fleas into monsters

Galileo

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