Writers
Realism, Regionalism, Naturalism
Characters
Stories
Miscellaneous
100
This writer wore a signature white suit, wrote Huck Finn, and gave lectures that were popular all over the country.
Who is Mark Twain?
100
This event was the main influence on literature from the Realism period.
What is the Civil War?
100
This character is sentenced to hang after trying to blow up Owl Creek Bridge.
Who is Peyton Farquhar?
100
This story follows a man through the wintry winds of the Yukon territory as he struggles to survive the elements.
What is To Build a Fire?
100
This word is defined as the author's feelings about his/her poem/story.
What is tone?
200
This writer was inspired by Emerson, wrote free verse, optimistic poetry, and compiled his work in a book titled Leaves of Grass.
Who is Walt Whitman?
200
This era of literature died along with the soldiers in the Civil War.
What is Romanticism?
200
This character trains a frog to jump higher than any frog in Calaveras County.
Who is Jim Smiley?
200
This story follows a woman's slow descent into insanity due to a taunting room and oblivious husband.
What is The Yellow Wallpaper?
200
This word is defined as how the reader feels after reading a poem/story.
What is mood?
300
This writer was a recluse, wrote 1,775 poems, and did not have their poems published until after their death.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
300
This period of time is characterized by sparkle, glitter, and excess.
What is the Gilded Age?
300
This character is a young, illiterate boy who helps a runaway slave escape to freedom.
Who is Huckleberry Finn?
300
This story follows the narrator in his pursuit of Reverend Leonidas W. Smiley, but he finds himself hearing about a completely different person.
What is The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County?
300
This was Mark Twain's original birth name.
What is Samuel Langhorn Clemens?
400
This writer wrote slave narratives that exposed the horrors of slavery to the country.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
The government created this plan to fix the country, but it ended up failing.
What is Reconstruction?
400
This character is exiled from Poker Flat for gambling.
Who is John Oakhurst?
400
This story's climax occurs at the end, after the main character realizes he has been imagining everything the entire time.
What is An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge?
400
In Huckleberry Finn, Jim runs away from Miss Watson for this reason.
What is he didn't want to be sold to someone else and be separated from his family?
500
This writer wrote The Outcasts of Poker Flat.
Who is Bret Harte?
500
This movement aimed to restore economic opportunities and fix injustices in the country.
What is the Progressive movement?
500
This character dies after starving herself for the sake of saving Piney Woods.
Who is Mother Shipton?
500
This story focuses on how the characters' inevitable deaths change their point of view on life, themselves, and their fellow exiled friends.
What is The Outcasts of Poker Flat?
500
The narrator in To Build a Fire claims that the main character lacks this trait.
What is imagination?
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