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100

"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Frederick Douglass

100

Who wrote his name with NO capital letters?

e e cummings

100

Whose parents were "Doc Ed," and Grace Hall Hemingway?

Ernest Hemingway 

100

What do we call using an object or a word to represent an abstract idea.

Symbolism

100

What is the last line of "The Old Man and the Sea?"

“The old man was dreaming about lions.”

200

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain or Samuel Clemons

200

Who used mayonnaise on many things she ate?

Flannery O’Connor

200

Who was the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens?

Samuel Clemons or Mark Twain

200

Whom did Emily Dickinson marry?

She was never married.

200

What did George say happened to Lennie before the vigilantes showed up

George shot him.

300

“The Giving Tree”

Shel Silverstein

300

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

300

Who was the son of Henry Ware Eliot?

T. S. Elliot

300

What are Metaphors, Similes, and Analogies?

Figures of speech

300

Whos story ends with, "Oh, no, Misto C--, I hadn't had no trouble. An' no joy!"

Aunt Rachel

400

"The Raven"

Edgar Allen Poe

400

Who loved chickens and peacocks. Taught her pet chicken to walk backward?

Flannery O'Connor 

400

Who was the daughter of Christian Webb Welty and Mary Chestina Andrews Welty?

Eudora Welty

400

Who was the writer who was the FIRST black man to be nominated as VP of the US?

Frederick Douglass

400

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

500

...if called by a panther,

Don't anther.

Ogden Nash

500

If the USA had a national poet, this would be the man.

Robert Frost

500

What poet was the daughter of Edward Dickerson and Emily Norcross Dickerson?

Emily Dickerson

500

Who was named for Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner”

Francis Scott Fitzgerald 

500

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

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