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Lit Lingo
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Potpourri
100

Godfrey Cass's golden-haired daughter

Eppie (Marner)

100

What was George Eliot's real name? 

Mary Ann Evans

100

The arrangements of incidents or events in a story

Plot

100
Where Silas Marner was born and where he visited after his gold was found

Lantern Yard

100

The name of the man's dead lover in "The Raven"

Lenore

200

Who said "When a man turns a blessing from his door, it falls to them as take it in"?

Silas Marner

200

William Rose Benet, author of "The Skater of Ghost Lake," and brother to Stephen Vincent Benet, is this nationality. 

American

200

Words which appeal to our senses, providing a creative "image" in our minds. 

Imagery
200

In "The Telltale Heart," what characteristic of the old man caused the narrator to want to kill him? 

His evil eye

200

The lit story we read with the other "Silas" in it, following a guy who just wants to get back "home."

"The Death of the Hired Man"

300

This backstabber married Silas's fiancee. 

William Dane

300

"The Erl-king" was written by this German novelist. 

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

300

When human qualities are applied to inanimate objects or animals making them like a "person." 

Personification

300

Leiningen lived in this country. 

Brazil

300

Said "You know I'm a jewel for 'ticing people into bargains. For which reason I advise you to let me sell Wildfire." 

Dunstan Cass

400

Eppie's godmother

Dolly Winthrop

400

Wrote "The Inspiration of Mr. Budd"

Dorothy Sayers

400

A suggested meaning - similar to implication, suggestion, or undertone

Connotation

400

This is the only thing the raven ever said in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." 

Nevermore

400

Laura Sheridan, who said "Forgive my hat," was the protagonist in this story. 

"The Garden-Party"

500

Who solves the mystery of the Red-headed League? 

Sherlock Holmes

500

Famous "sir" who authored "The Red-headed League" and other Sherlock Holmes mysteries. 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

500

An expressed comparison of unlike things using words "like," "as," "resembles," or "similar to" 

Simile

500

William Strickland, who found his way to Mr. Budd's chair, was guilty of this crime. 

Murder

500

This redhead came to Sherlock Holmes after a mysterious invitation and experience with The Red-headed League.

Jabez Wilson

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