So Many Readings
Lover, outlaw, sage, and ruler are all examples
What are archetypes?
Walt Whitman wrote "When Lilacs Last in the Doooryard Bloom'd" after this American leader's death
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What are: read, mark, observe, reflect
a god
In 1852, this early American writer and abolitionist gave a speech called "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" to a group of wealthy, white women in Rochester, New York
Who is Frederick Douglass?
What happened to Henry Junior at the end of "The Red Convertible"
What is drowned in a river
What Henry Jim wanted after his death in "Snowfall" by D'Arcy McNickle
What is to be buried with his horse?
The genre of Emerson's "Self-Reliance"
What is an essay?
arrogant, proud
What is haughty?
This Native American author was born in Little Falls, Minnesota and currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Who is Louise Erdrich?
The inventor of the detective story
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
What Joey did at the end of "Going to School"
What is stop the buggy?
A short explanation before a poem
What is an epigraph?
a small branch with flowers
What is a sprig?
This author is an American cartoonist. He wrote and illustrated the graphic novel American Born Chinese.
Who is Gene Luen Yang?
When she was seven years old, this early American writer was kidnapped from Senegal/ The Gambia and brought by force to Boston in the American colonies.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
What are the number of poems discovered in Dickinson's room after her death?
This genre:
V
The breeze—the breath of God—is still—
And the mist upon the hill,
Shadowy—shadowy—yet unbroken,
Is a symbol and a token—
How it hangs upon the trees,
A mystery of mysteries!
The gothic style
someone who lives alone or in solitude
This author worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and wrote the short stories "Going to School" and "Snowfall."
Who is D'Arcy McNickle?
This early American writer founded the transcendentalist movement.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
This early American writer was a Puritan woman who sailed from England to the United States in 1630,
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
What is a bird?
to give up, to relinquish
What is to cede?
This author believed that Americans should, above all else, trust themselves. He wrote, "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?