King Author
This author went to the Yukon during the gold rush.
Who is Jack London?
When & where
What is setting?
This device compares something unknown with something known.
What is a metaphor?
Jimmy Cross is very concerned about whether Martha is this.
What is a virgin?
The work that contains this quote: “It was only right we should celebrate and rejoice, because your brother here was dead and has come to life; he was lost and is found."
What is the "Prodigal Son"?
This author endured “the rest cure.”
Who is Charlotte Perkins Gilman?
This POV sees into the head of the protagonist (but no other characters)
What is third person, limited-omniscient?
This device makes the abstract concrete.
Abbe Marignan becomes outraged when his niece gets one of these.
What is a boyfriend?
The work that contains this quote: “There was nothing between the top of the suit and the top of her head except just her, this clean bare plane of the top of her chest down from the shoulder bones like a dented sheet of metal tilted in the light.”
What is "A&P"?
This author is a Vietnam War veteran who wrote about his platoon.
This kind of character doesn’t change.
What is a static character?
This kind of story is full of anthropomorphic animals and is generally followed by a stated lesson.
What is a fable?
The townsfolk find him laying down after Emily Grierson’s funeral.
Who is Homer Barron?
The work that contains this quote: “And he went back musing, almost ashamed, as if he had intruded into a temple where he had, no right to enter.”
What is "Clair de Lune"?
This author is considered by many to be the most important Southern writer.
Who is William Faulkner?
Comes right before the climax.
What is the crisis?
This genre defies time and place, as well as moral.
What is a myth?
Brently Mallard was supposed to have died in one of these.
What is a train accident?
The work that contains this quote: “There’s a definite moral here.”
This author lived in and wrote about Ipswich, MA. Sexuality plays a prominent role in his work.
Who is John Updike?
What’s needed to put the plot in motion.
What is exposition?
A narrative with a one-to-one correspondence between the details and a single set of ulterior meanings.
What is an allegory?
He’s found face-down in shallow water.
Who is Billy the Oiler?
The work that contains this quote: “You were right, Old Fellow. You were right.”
What is "To Build a Fire"?