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100

Edgar Allen Poe is most famous for this poem

What is The Raven?

100

A literary device that gives human traits to nonhuman entities. 

What is personification?

100

The first American Lit movement was characterized by a lack of fiction and highly religious influences.

What is Puritanism?

100

He wrote the Great Gatsby.

Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?

100

In the Great Gatsby, color is an example of this literary device.

What is symbolism?

200

Poe usually writes about one of these two subjects.

What are Dead Lovers and Spooky Spooky Deaths?

200

The three main appeals in Rhetoric.

What are Logos, Pathos, and Ethos?

200

A literary movement emphasizing nature, individuality, and self-reliance. 

What is Trancendentalism?

200

A poetess of the romantic era famous for her short poems that play with homophones and themes of death.

Who is Emily Dickenson?

200

The color most associated with Jay Gatsby. The color of money, hope, and growth.

What is Green?

300

The literary style that Poe wrote in is called this.

What is Gothic Literature?

300

An appeal to timing.

What is Kairos?

300

Movement also called the "American Renaissance", all about imagination, feeling, nature, and individuality.

What is American Romanticism?

300

A transcendentalist author who preached civil disobedience and spent time in jail.

Who is Henry David Threau?

300

Gold in "The Great Gatsby" symbolizes this.

Opportunity, wealth, decay, death, freedom.

400

The narrator of The Cask of Amontillado.

Who is Montressaur?

400

When the audience knows more than the characters in the story, it leads to this.

What is Dramatic Irony?
400

A movement started during the first world war and characterized by formalism, symbolism, individualism, experimentation, and absurdity.

What is Modernism?

400

A playwright who used the Salem Witch Trials as a vehicle to talk about McCarthyism.

Who is Arthur Miller?

400

In "Bless Me, Ultima" Rudolfa Ayana creates an air of mystery and magic around Ultima by associating her with this color in her clothing.

What is the color black?

500

This is an example of Dramatic Irony in the Cask of Amontillado.

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500

"The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music, and the opera of voices pitches a key higher." is an example of both _______ and ________. (Two types of one thing.)

What is Visual and Auditory imagery?

500

A movement that emphasized the nitty gritty side of American life, that held up everyday people and their struggles, and wrote about cities.

What is Realism?

500

The author who wrote southern gothic short stories with themes of religion.

Who is Flannery O'Conner?

500
Toni Morrison used color in the excerpt from her novel "Song of Solomon" to create rich visual images and change our perspective on characters. This is an example.

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