"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass
Who wrote his name with NO capital letters?
e e cummings
Whose parents were "Doc Ed," and Grace Hall Hemingway?
Ernest Hemingway
What do we call using an object or a word to represent an abstract idea.
Symbolism
What is the last line of "The Old Man and the Sea?"
“The old man was dreaming about lions.”
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain or Samuel Clemons
Who used mayonnaise on many things she ate?
Flannery O’Connor
Who was the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens?
Samuel Clemons or Mark Twain
Whom did Emily Dickinson marry?
She was never married.
What did George say happened to Lennie before the vigilantes showed up
George shot him.
“The Giving Tree”
Shel Silverstein
Who lost his sight in one of his eyes while playing "William Tell" with his two brothers but became a cartoonist and writer?
James Thurber
Who was the son of Henry Ware Eliot?
T. S. Elliot
What are Metaphors, Similes, and Analogies?
Figures of speech
Whos story ends with, "Oh, no, Misto C--, I hadn't had no trouble. An' no joy!"
Aunt Rachel
"The Raven"
Edgar Allen Poe
Who loved chickens and peacocks. Taught her pet chicken to walk backward?
Flannery O'Connor
Who was the daughter of Christian Webb Welty and Mary Chestina Andrews Welty?
Eudora Welty
Who was the writer who was the FIRST black man to be nominated as VP of the US?
Frederick Douglass
Who spent his last days being bitter and paranoid with bouts of depression that he tried to overcome by smoking cigars, reading in bed, and playing billiards?
Mark Twain or Samuel Clemons
...if called by a panther,
Don't anther.
Ogden Nash
If the USA had a national poet, this would be the man.
Robert Frost
What poet was the daughter of Edward Dickerson and Emily Norcross Dickerson?
Emily Dickerson
Who was named for Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
About what character is it said in the last line of the story "...he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, undefeated, inscrutable to the last."
Walter Mitty