Poetry
This poet was famous for her wit, asking why lovers hadn't thought of ever sending her "one perfect limousine" instead of flowers.
Who is Dorothy Parker?
This is the city, country, year, era, social norms, geography, terrain, atmosphere, weather or other details of time and place related to a literary work.
What is the setting?
Morrison describes these two characters as 'salt and pepper.'
Who are Twyla and Roberta?
This is the name of the style of formatting and documentation for academic papers you write in an English class.
What is 'MLA' format, or Modern Language Association?
Though open to interpretation, this is generally defined as a 'timeless' and/or imaginative work, or a written piece that is of lasting artistic merit.
What is literature?
This poet was an expert at self-promotion, celebrating the individual in his lengthy work "Song of Myself."
Who is Walt Whitman?
What the slashes in this quote are indicating:
"The Brain—is wider than the Sky—/ For—put them side by side—/ The one the other will contain/ With ease—and you—beside—"
What are linebreaks?
Anna and Gurov first spot each other in this seaside resort town, which features in Chekhov's "The Lady with a Dog."
What is Yalta?
The name given to sources that comment on, analyze and/or criticize a text which is the primary source of a literary essay.
What are secondary sources?
The name of the statement that makes the claim you will develop in your paper; it usually comes at the end of the introductory paragraph.
What is a thesis?
In this short lyric poem, William Blake uses vivid symbolism to portray a damaged, tainted love.
What is "The Sick Rose"?
This is when a writer uses one thing to talk about something else, or to make a comparison that creates an unexpected psychological 'leap' or association.
What is a metaphor?
This state is the setting of Annie Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain."
What is Wyoming?
This is a good place to search on the open web if you want to limit your hits to more scholarly sources.
What is Google Scholar?
What is a soliloquy?
Emily Dickinson suggests that this is "wider than the sky."
What is the brain?
This is the place Miss Moore takes the kids on their field trip in Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson."
What is a toy store?
This story ends with these three lines: "My eyes were still closed. I was in my house and I knew that. But I didn’t feel inside anything. 'It’s really something,' I said."
What is Raymond Carver's "Cathedral"?
This is the place to go for access to peer-reviewed journal articles.
What are the library subscription-service databases? What are EbscoHost, JSTOR, LION, etc.?
What you might use to provide textual evidence for your points in an academic paper.
What are quotes? and/or paraphrase from the text? and/or specific details?
This poem is a ballad, and it is traditionally sung as a song.
What is Robert Burns's "A Red, Red Rose"?
What Roberta has in her shopping cart when Twyla runs into her at the grocery store in Toni Morrison's "Recitatif."
What are "a bunch of asparagus and two cartons of fancy water"?
The name of the supermarket that both the primary setting and the title of a short story by John Updike.
What is "A&P"?
This place gives me access to print books, magazines and journals; online films, online books and other media, databases; and I can ask for assistance through their chat seven days a week :)
What is the BCCC Library?
Hamlet reflects that this is "The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn/No traveller returns . . ."
What is death or the afterlife?